Higher education bonds

University of Arizona wants to include almost $200 million of projects in a Pima County bond proposal.

Twenty-nine technical training projects at two-year colleges in Louisiana will be funded with $251.6 million of state bonds that won final legislative approval Friday.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to Aa3 from Aa2.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its AA long-term rating and AA/A-1-plus rating on University of Pittsburgh debt.

The Georgia Institute of Technology's recent announcement that it will offer the first low-cost online master's degree in computer science is a credit positive, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker reduced a proposed funding increase for the University of Wisconsin system in his proposed two-year budget by $94 million and recommended a tuition freeze.

The Kansas Senate approved $202 million of state bonds for a national bio-defense laboratory at Kansas State University on a voice vote.

Williams College will go to market with a $154 million negotiated sale of Series 2013P revenue bonds through the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency.

University of Texas regents approved $334.5 million of university revenue bonds to fund a medical school in Austin.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's revised suitability rule should include dealer obligations to sophisticated municipal market professionals and suitability requirements for 529 college savings plans, according to comments received by the MSRB Monday.

The University of Chicago will offer up about $350 million of taxable and tax-exempt paper this week as it wraps up borrowing for the final phases of a $1.2 billion capital program and gears up for a new fundraising campaign.

New York State legislators will meet Thursday with officials of SUNY Downstate Medical Center to discuss a sustainability plan for a Brooklyn hospital that had been slated to close.

The University of Wisconsin has come under fire after the recent disclosure that it holds $648 million in reserves lawmakers had not previously known about.

Kansas may issue another $202 million of state bonds to finance a national biological defense laboratory at Kansas State University.

Standard & Poor's raised DePaul University's issuer credit rating by one notch to A in recognition of its strong operating performance and overall growth.

Moody's Investors Service said it has placed San Francisco Community College District's A1 rating on review for possible downgrade ahead of a decision on its accreditation.

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's board of governors approved up to $32 million in fixed-rate bonding for four capital projects.

Moody's Investors Service last week downgraded to A1 from Aa3 its rating on Michigan Technological University, affecting just under $80 million of outstanding debt.

Voters turned down a tax increase to support $30 million of bonds to expand a community college campus in Hot Springs.

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago plans to sell up to $450 million of new-money and refunding bonds as it finalizes financing plans for a $550 million replacement facility.