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Texas Governors and Higher Education: Rick Perry Wades into the deep Water at UT and TAMU

May 31, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Dr. Richard Murray The Houston Chronicle’s City and State section headline this morning is “McKinney on way out as chancellor at A&M.”  This is the latest in a series […]

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Grading More Than 750 Academic Institutions on Rigorous Core Requirements

May 31, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Ed Williamson, a former trustee of the University of the South (“Sewanee”), mentions ACTA in his Washington Examiner about reducing tuition: “My hope is that Sewanee’s clarion call for a […]

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Seven Breakthrough Solutions Would Boost Productivity and Accountability at Public Universities

May 31, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Reeve Hamilton At a meeting of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, chairman Richard Box appeared to shrug off a controversial set of “breakthrough solutions” for higher […]

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Rick Perry to Replace Donald Trump

May 31, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 5/31/11 4:22 PM EDT Updated: 5/31/11 4:33 PM EDT Gov. Rick Perry will be the replacement speaker for Donald Trump at a Manhattan GOP dinner next […]

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Gov. Perry – A Top Priority to Improve State Universities

May 31, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

The big lie making the rounds in Texas is that elected or appointed officials want to undermine or de-emphasize research at our colleges and universities By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF […]

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Professors Who Don’t Want Accountability Blame “Seven Breakthrough Solutions.”

May 31, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Mary Lee Grant More than 800 professors signed a letter presented during a dramatic board of regents meeting this week in which angry faculty spoke out against Texas A&M […]

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Boy, if Texas taxpayers only knew…

May 31, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

The university should also have to release complete information on all higher ed research budgets. By: Max Borders   Follow Him @maxborders     Publicly funded colleges and universities have always […]

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What Happened to Texas Math Achievement and Where Will it Go?

May 26, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Dr. Ed Fuller The best indicator of a state’s progress in math and reading are the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP). This is considered the “gold-standard” of […]

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A Texas-sized Idea for Education Reform

May 26, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

Sometimes it takes a budget crisis like the one virtually all states are facing to spawn a great idea. As the Texas legislative session nears its close, Representative Sid Miller […]

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Real Estate Must Step Up on Education Reform

May 26, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Chip Cavanaugh The value of commercial real estate depends on the demand for space, which depends on quality jobs, which depends on a skilled workforce, which depends on the […]

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Texas’s School-Reform Opening

May 26, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Texas is going through a painful reduction of state aid to local schools, but an innovative proposal could solve the problem without hiking up taxes. By JOHN FUND Texas is […]

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Memorandum From A&M System Board of Regents Chairman Richard A. Box ’61

May 26, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

To Faculty and Staff of The Texas A&M University System: I want to personally thank each of you for your ongoing commitment to the highest educational standards and your passion […]

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Should Texas A&M take over UH campuses?

May 26, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

by ZEN T. C. ZHENG It could become a reality for students to graduate from the University of Houston’s Sugar Land and Cinco Ranch campuses as Aggies if proponents are […]

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The Debate Over Higher Ed in Texas Takes Center Stage

May 26, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – An intensifying debate over higher education in Texas is likely to take center stage at a meeting of the Texas A&M University System‘s board of […]

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The Regents Should Proceed in Resolving the Current Controversy

May 26, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

Beginning with Answers to Their Questions. By Ronald L. Trowbridge The debate on higher education reform has become a firestorm. The reason for the controversy is that, as with any […]

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Is College (Finally) Ready For Its Innovation Revolution?

May 26, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

Derek Thompson – Derek Thompson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, business, and technology. Derek has also written for BusinessWeek, Slate, and The Daily […]

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In op-ed, A&M Professor Makes Case for Drastic Restructuring of Texas Higher Ed System

May 25, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

This is a follow up to the “Lemons” article yesterday. By Mary Lee Grant In an op-ed published in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Texas A&M University associate professor of history […]

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Bill Allowing Private Schools to Join UIL Misses Key Midnight Deadline

May 25, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Erich Schlegel/Special Contributor Dallas Jesuit players celebrate with the UIL Class 5A boys soccer championship trophy after the Rangers defeated Houston Strake Jesuit in a shootout in Georgetown on April […]

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Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By DAVID LEONHARDT The last four presidents of the United States each attended a highly selective college. All nine Supreme Court justices did, too, as did the chief executives of […]

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Lawmakers Eye Incentives for Academic Funding

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Chace Murphy AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas lawmakers are advancing legislation to base some college and university funding on student performance. The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to […]

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The Higher Ed Wars – Fierce Resistance to Meaningful Change

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Richard Vedder (Last Friday,) I was minding my own business, on spring break recovering from the bruising labors of academic life, living the life of the modern-type tenured intellectual […]

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Runaway tuition: A challenge for students, parents and schools

May 25, 2011by Staff 5 Comments

By JENS MANUEL KROGSTA HOW ROOM AND BOARD CHARGES COMPARE AT STATE UNIVERSITIES University of Iowa +$6,916 1981-82 cost: $1,834 Inflation adjusted: $4,538 2011-12 cost: $8,750 Additional cost beyond inflation: […]

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For-Profit Art Schools on the Rise

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Daniel Grant Art, we are told again and again, is a business, but teaching art is also a business. For a growing number of artists, professional training is taking place […]

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Congratulations! You’re in debt

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Rich Lowry Amid all the uplifting cliches at their commencement ceremonies, graduating college students won’t hear a line applicable to some of them — you got ripped off. Student […]

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A&M System Regents Set to Meet Thursday – Box Wants Open and Honest Dialogue Regarding “Seven Breakthrough Solutions.

May 25, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Thursday marks a big set of meetings for the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. Among the items on the agenda are discussions differential tuition increases for four A&M colleges […]

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Is College Education for Everyone?

May 25, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Tom Pauken Meanwhile, a story in the May 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal reports that manufacturing businesses across the country are struggling to find employees with the […]

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Chairman of A&M Regents – Concerned About the Future of Higher Education

May 25, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

“I am concerned about the future of higher education in our state and across the country as costs continue to escalate and a first-class education may be moving out of […]

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Senate Approves Outcome Based Higher Education Bill

May 24, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Erin Mulvaney/Reporter The Senate passed a measure Tuesday that would link part of higher education funding to the student and university “outcomes” and performance. The bill carried by Sen. […]

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UT Controvesry Evident at Commencement

May 24, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

By Suzannah Gonzales and Ralph K.M. Haurwitz Omar Ochoa spent eight years at the University of Texas, becoming the first Latino editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review and, as an […]

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Food For The “Is college worth it debate”

May 24, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

Andrew Gillen One of the findings from the recent Pew study is that “an overwhelming majority of college graduates—86%—say that college has been a good investment for them personally.” This […]

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Powers calls Productivity study Useless - Times of Texas

UT President Powers Described Productivity Analysis as “inappropriate” and “not useful.”

May 24, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Reeve Hamilton Before the University of Texas System released an 821-page draft document showing faculty members’ salaries, research expenditures and total numbers of students taught, among other pieces of […]

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Eagle, Express-News Blast Perry Over A&M

May 24, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

B-CS Eagle critiques Perry’s ‘obsession and interference’ with university By Mary Lee Grant The editorial boards of the Bryan-College Station Eagle and San Antonio Express-News are taking on Gov. Rick […]

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Higher Education – About to Burst

May 24, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Clayton Cramer: For the last several months, an increasingly hot topic of popular discourse has been the higher education bubble. With many of the same characteristics as the housing bubble […]

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Bigger UT Teaching Loads Are Suggested

May 24, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

By Melissa Ludwig About one-fifth of professors at the University of Texas at Austin carry a majority of the teaching load and generate 18 percent of research funding, suggesting that […]

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Study Finds Reallocation of Resources Lowers Tuition In Higher Ed

May 24, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

A new study was released Monday by the D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity The bottom line is this: by incorporating even modest changes in the teaching work loads […]

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Texas Higher Ed Needs Restructuring

May 24, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By JONATHAN COOPERSMITH – Special to The Eagle If life hands you lemons, make lemonade. From that perspective, the unexpected and possibly involuntary resignation of Mike McKinney as the chancellor […]

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Room For Improvement At The University of Texas at Austin

May 24, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

By WILLisms.com An interesting new study highlights the vast disparities in teaching and research at UT: Looking only at the UT Austin campus, if the 80 percent of the faculty […]

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Continued Controversy – UT, A&M Faculty Productivity Criticized in Studies — and Studies Criticized, too

May 24, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By HOLLY K. HACKER Two new studies say that professors at Texas’ top public universities aren’t very productive — but critics say those studies are flawed. The studies — one […]

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What Texas Learned – Release of 821 Pages of “productivity” Data

May 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Harvest Moon This month the University of Texas System released 821 pages of “productivity” data for all faculty members and graduate assistants employed at the nine academic campuses that […]

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Newt Gingrich, Citing Rick Perry Comeback, Insists Campaign Still Very Much Alive

May 23, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Todd J. Gillman/Reporter After a rocky first week as a presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich pointed this morning to Texas for inspiration – specifically, to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s come-from-behind […]

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Teaching Loads and Affordability: The University of Texas Data

May 23, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

By Richard Vedder A recently released Pew/Chronicle survey of American attitudes towards colleges shows that 75 percent disagree with the proposition that “college costs…are such that most people can afford […]

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Data Shows Massive Disparity in Professor Productivity at UT-Austin

May 23, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

By Sibyl West | by Richard Vedder, Christopher Matgouranis, Jonathan Robe If bottom 80 percent were half as productive as top 20 percent, tuition could be cut in half AUSTIN […]

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New Study: Professors Work Less – Students Pay More

May 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By: Matt S Dowling There has been a lot of debate on how to rein in tuition cost and a new study released by the Center for Affordability and Productivity shows […]

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UT-Austin Faculty Data Highlights Opportunities for Efficiency Gains

May 23, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

By David Guenthner Modest improvements in faculty productivity could allow for substantial tuition reductions without threatening tenure or affecting externally funded research AUSTIN – Modest increases in teaching loads at […]

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What Exactly Are the “Seven Breakthrough Solutions?”

May 23, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

There has been so much controversy surrounding the “seven breakthrough solutions”, we thought we would post them with full downloadable PDF solutions, so you can read and decide for yourself […]

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About 30,000 Fewer Students Would Get Texas Grants Under Proposed Budget Compromise

May 23, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Higher education officials estimate nearly 30,000 fewer students would get Texas Grants under financial aid decisions made Monday by legislative negotiators. A total of 106,000 students got Texas grants in […]

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Full Court Press

May 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Sometimes, good faith just isn’t good enough. In the latest twist of a three-year legal case involving copyright and electronic course materials, the lawyers for two prestigious university presses and […]

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College-Level Scam

May 23, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By MQSullivan Apparently our state’s colleges and universities don’t have enough to do, so they’re trying to get permission to compete with private-sector telecomm providers. Given how little time so […]

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Rush Limbaugh is Starting a Movement

May 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Rush Limbaugh is starting a movement, a movement to draft Texas Gov. Rick Perry for President. Here’s what Rush said last week on this […]

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Senator Judith Zaffirini, Ph.D.: A Woman for Tomorrow.

May 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

At the start of this century, Laredo gained an unfortunate reputation as a haven for border solubility, narco-gang violence, and the appearance of a truck stop without the trucks. As […]

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