Higher education bonds

The University of Arizona is looking for interest rate savings in a $169.6 million refunding of three series of bonds issued from 2007 to 2009.

Legislation to fund Illinois' community college payments and student financial aid grants was delivered to Gov. Bruce Rauner's desk Tuesday.

Continuing turmoil at the College of DuPage, Ill., cost the two-year school one of its triple-A ratings as Standard & Poor's cut it two notches to AA.

The University of California would issue $400 million of bonds as part of a proposed $1.1 billion public-private partnership to expand the campus of UC Merced, according to a report issued the state Legislative Analyst’s Office Wednesday.

North Carolina voters decide March 15 if North Carolina can issue $2 billion of general obligation bonds to finance higher education and state capital projects.

Philadelphia’s Temple University is allocating a $1 million study to examine building a new on-campus football stadium.

Stacy Lewis Daher has been reappointed to the California Educational Facilities Authority, the body responsible for approving conduit bond issues for universities.

The head of the agency that accredits Illinois' state universities issued a warning to state leaders as the schools struggle in the absence of state funding because of a continued budget stalemate.

A $327 million University of Kansas bond sale that used a Wisconsin conduit issuer drew criticism from lawmakers seeking to ban future out-of-state deals.

In a newspaper column Tuesday, the governor said he would not support budget cuts that could throw universities into financial exigency and close hospitals in order to deal with Louisiana's budget crisis.