Welcome!
At the heart of the most successful cities and metropolitan regions in the world are great universities. This is especially true in Washington where the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area represents the combined resources of the Capital region’s best academic institutions. Comprised of twelve universities and two colleges, our member institutions are public, private, federal, historically black, religious, secular, devoted to the deaf and hard of hearing, focused on women’s education, and devoted to the arts. Their student body sizes range from a few hundred to over 35,000. Both the USA Today and the Wall Street Journal agree—Washington is a college town!!
Events
At AU Museum, Katzen Art Center: Georgia June Goldberg, Emergence; Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women of Japan; Good Things Come in Small Packages: Collection of Elizabeth French, More....
At CUA: Exhibition, Treasures from our Attic, 1st Floor Mullen Library through August 13.
At the Corcoran: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration; Selections from the collection of historic American art; A Love of Europe from the William A. Clark Collection.
August 6 Woodwinds Recital, 7:00 p.m., Harris Theater, George Mason University
Through August 18 Films on the Vern: "Page to Screen", Mount Vernon Campus, GWU, 2100 Foxhall Road, NW
News
Ah, the lazy, hazy days of summer. Campuses may be on summer recess but the Beat goes on. Check out the summer doings in this edition of the Campus Beat.
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On March 31, President Barack Obama signed the most far-reaching changes to the student loan program in 20 years. Added at the end of the negotiations on the massive health care bill, the provision of the student loan bill were less familiar to the public. Unlike the health bill, however, the student loan bill will be implemented immediately. By fall semester, all federal student loan programs facilitated by private banks for which the bank received fees from the government will be eliminated. Instead, the government will expand its direct lending program, a step designed to save the federal treasury $61 billion over 10 years. Thirty-six billion of the savings will be used to increase Pell grants for needy students to $5,975 by 2017. The bill also includes $13.5 billion allocation to cover a shortfall caused by a steep rise in the number of Americans enrolling in college and seeking financial aid during the recession.