Effects of sequestration are already felt at colleges and universities

Inside Higher Ed: For federally funded higher education programs, it’s been an uncertain couple of years. Colleges have navigated and lobbied their way through a near-government shutdown, the debt ceiling crisis of August 2011, the almost-doubling of the student loan interest rate and the year-end deal to avert tax hikes. For the past 14 months, there has been one reliable source of uncertainty: sequestration, the deep, mandatory spending cuts originally set to take effect Jan. 2.

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