Higher education bonds

Standard & Poor's raised its rating on the Iowa Board of Regents' parking system revenue bonds one level to AA-minus based on strong parking demand.

Ohio is selling $300 million of general obligation bonds and Gov. John Kasich is expected to unveil a new budget bill that features an income-tax cut on Tuesday

Moody's Investor’s Service downgraded Yeshiva University further into speculative territory Wednesday, dropping the school to B3 from B1.

Harrisburg University, in Pennsylvania's distressed capital, missed a $1.8 million bond payment on revenue bonds, according to a securities filing.

The double-A rated University of Kentucky prices $244 million of bonds on Tuesday amid a light competitive calendar.

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Missouri received a first time rating of A3 from Moody's Investors Service.

S&P raised its GO rating for Amherst, Mass., home of the University of Massachusetts, to AA-plus from AA, citing the town's strong budgetary performance.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a new rule that will require underwriters of 529 college savings plans to submit more in-depth financial information to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board twice a year.

With refunding opportunities fading, municipal bond volume in the Southwest region fell 13% from 2012 to $56 billion in 2013.

Moody's Investor's Service downgraded bonds from the University of Puerto Rico two notches deeper into the speculative realm.

Governors presented more optimistic outlooks of their states' economies and finances in their state of the state addresses this year, and many said they would pursue new spending, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is proposing a new bond program for its community colleges modeled after a similar program for universities last year.

Competitive bids Thursday on $27 million of revenue bonds will fund a new University of Iowa dormitory to help deal with a housing crunch due to rising enrollment.

Fitch Ratings downgraded more than $7 billion of general revenue bonds issued by the University of California to AA from AA-plus.

Widener University School of Law's Harrisburg, Pa., campus has scheduled a daylong conference on municipal financial distress for April.

The University of Illinois heads to market with a $180 million new money sale that offers investors high grade state-related paper from a credit that has mostly weathered the state's own ratings deterioration.

Standard & Poor's and Moody's both revised their outlooks to negative on the University of Chicago noting poorer than expected fiscal performance, planned deficits, and future borrowing plans.

Former New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate John Liu is teaching public policy and municipal finance at Baruch College.

Moody's Investors Service dropped Alabama State University's bond ratings to Baa1 from A3 amid a forensic audit that began in 2012, and remains incomplete.

The Kansas Jayhawks basketball team will get a $17.5 million apartment building funded by donations and revenue bonds.