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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
