Brown University plans to submit to the city next week its institutional master plan, outlining the university's development goals for the next five years. The plan includes construction of two buildings on university property near the center of campus, a fitness center that would be attached to the intercollegiate athletic facility, and a landscaped pedestrian walkway that would be parallel to and midway between Brown and Thayer Streets.

Harvard University, which two years ago focused attention on the paucity of low-income students in the Ivy League with its announcement that it would not ask parents who earned less than $40,000 a year to contribute money for their children's education, said yesterday that it would raise that ceiling to $60,000 for students entering this fall. Some financial aid officials applauded the announcements. "If you step back and forget my role as a financial aid director and focus on helping needy students, this is great," Michael D. Bartini, director of financial aid at Brown, said yesterday.

In this video from the March 28 broadcast, Professor Mary Carskadon discusses adolescent sleep needs and the impact too little sleep has on teens’ lives.

Two Brown University students are among the nation’s 75 students selected as Truman Scholars. This wire service article was distributed to member media organizations around the country.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives finally brought long-awaited legislation reauthorizing the Higher Education Act to the House floor Wednesday, but avoided substantive debate on the bill’s most controversial provisions � including measures to curb tuition increases and to loosen restrictions on for-profit colleges. The act, due to expire on March 31, governs most federal student-aid programs. A final vote on the bill is expected today.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a sweeping piece of legislation that would set federal higher-education policy for the next six years. But, to win support for the measure, the leader of the education committee in the House agreed to make significant changes to the bill, including softening provisions that were designed to crack down on colleges that increase their prices too much.