In particular, insiders say, Robert Eitel, a former executive at the predatory schools Bridgepoint Education and Career Education Corp., is playing a key role in policy affecting for-profit colleges, casting doubt on his commitment to recuse from some matters.
For many parents, the cost of college casts a long shadow before and beyond the time their child actually spends in college.
In an interview, Mr. Andrews, a son of a shipyard worker from Bellmawr who was the first in his family to attend college, casts the race as a choice between an old-style politician and someone who would shake up the Senate.
So it behooves colleges to cast wide nets.
Few coaches in college basketball cast more imposing figures than West Virginia's Bob Huggins, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Izzo.
Although remaining at Arizona may have better served his ambition of playing beyond college, Jones cast that aside.
But during a withering cross-examination that seemed to fluster Ms. Siddiqui, her years in college were cast in a different light.
After being caught selling term papers and suspended from his preppy college, he cast around for something to do, and applied to work at the I.R.S.
Each member of the electoral college would cast two votes for president; the winner would take office and the runner-up would become vice-president.
When her son boomeranged back temporarily after college, she cast about for a new place to put him and finally found it "in a back room".
