Higher education bonds

Sweet Briar College saw its revenue bonds upgraded four notches, although still within junk territory, because of efforts to keep the 114-year-old Virginia women's institution open.

The Nebraska Farm Bureau says a community college’s $369 million bond question on the November ballot would lead to a massive property tax increase on farmers, business, and homeowners in southeast Nebraska.

A bill introduced in the House would make municipal bonds issued by historically black colleges and universities tax-exempt at the federal, state and local levels.

Moody's revises Boston University's outlook to positive from stable while affirming the school's A1 rating.

New Jersey’s Stockton University is holding a bond sale Thursday to raise proceeds for its planned new $178 million Atlantic City campus.

The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s municipal finance center is offering grants for academic research projects on topics that range from public sector pensions and bond financing to infrastructure, taxation, and the politics of public finance.

The University of Illinois is preparing to refund $116 million while highlighting for investors what it describes as diverse revenues and growing enrollment that have lessened the strains of coping with the state’s budget mess.

Education officials and experts offered suggestions to a House subcommittee Tuesday on how to regulate private universities’ multibillion-dollar tax-exempt endowments, including by making them taxable in some cases because of concerns about their use.

Louisiana State University is bringing its first financing for a $575 million housing and retail privatization, a move that triggered downgrades of the university's outstanding bonds.

Indiana State University heads into the market Wednesday with an $82 million issue, a portion of which will fund renovations to its health and human service building.