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Debating Rick Perry: Why a Candidate’s Record Isn’t That Important to Getting Nominated

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By Jonathan Bernstein How important are governing accomplishments to a candidate seeking the presidential nomination? The question arises because Abby Rapoport has written a takedown for TNR of Rick Perry’s budget misadventures in Texas, close on the heels of an Ed Kilgore piece that also questions Perry’s accomplishments in the state. My sense? There’s nothing … Continue reading »

McKinney Denies he Was Pushed Out By A&M Regents

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By MELISSA LUDWIG SAN ANTONIO — In his last week on the job as chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, Mike McKinney said he disagrees with some ideas being floated to give higher education in Texas a dramatic makeover, particularly one to drastically lower tuition while increasing enrollment. “You shouldn’t even think about doing … Continue reading »

Texas Charts its Own Educational Course

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By Jim Stergios With 45 state and other jurisdictions signing on to the national standards, a few big holdouts remain, including importantly Texas, Virginia, and partially Minnesota. There are noises about other states’ desire to pull out of the effort, such as in New Hampshire and South Carolina. In this whole discussion, Texas matters most … Continue reading »

Empower Texans Fiscal Responsibility Index: 82nd Session

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The Fiscal Responsibility Index is a measurement of how lawmakers perform on size and role of government issues. We use exemplar votes on core budget and free enterprise issues that demonstrate legislators’ governing philosophy. 

How to Train U.S. Workers Back Into Manufacturing Jobs

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Despite gloomy job prospects, many American manufacturers are on the prowl for top talent, but say that not enough workers are trained for the tasks. By Elizabeth G. Olson, contributor When machine shops were in almost every American high school, students could learn the mechanical basics that could prepare them for an entry-level manufacturing job. … Continue reading »

Former UT adviser O’Donnell Says Zaffirini Mounted a Campaign to Demonize the Regents

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By Mary Lee Gran A $70,000 settlement could have bought peace between the University of Texas System and former special adviser Rick O’Donnell, but O’Donnell, who was fired April 19, instead spoke out against UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, UT-Austin President William Powers Jr. and state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, the Austin American-Statesman reported. In an … Continue reading »

Universities Turn to Outsourced Instructors

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By Didi Tang But the teachers won’t be on the university payroll. They work for St. Petersburg-based Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism training group, which has agreed to supply the university with instructors for the class via the Internet. “We are leveraging our e-learning platform to help journalism educators to have more time with their … Continue reading »

“Faculty productivity” is a Hot Topic.

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How to Justify Our Paychecks By Stanley N. Katz “Faculty productivity” is hot. In part, that’s due to what I think of as “the Texas wars.” First came the skirmish at Texas Tech University in 2008, when faculty objected to a report commissioned by the chancellor on whether tuition was rising because faculty weren’t in … Continue reading »

Graduate Quota

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TX State funding changes focus less on enrollment By Connie Thompson Enrolling for classes is no longer enough. This Congressional term, marked by budget cuts and fund reallocation, has yet again set its sights on higher education. During the regular session, which ended May 30, the 82nd Texas Legislature discussed a switch to an outcome-based … Continue reading »

Texas ‘Bird-Hunting Rule’ May Help Governor Perry Launch White House Bid

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By Darrell Preston and David Mildenberg Rick Perry built his career as the longest-serving U.S. governor using the “bird-hunting rule of Texas politics,” fellow Republican Bill Ratliff said. “You shoot at anything that flies,” said Ratliff, who has known the governor since Perry was in the state Legislature in the 1980s. “And you claim anything … Continue reading »

Emails Give Insight Into UT Controversy

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By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz At the height of a controversy about the direction of the school’s governing board earlier this year, the chairman of the University of Texas System regents told a fellow regent that he felt as winded as he did during football practices decades ago under coach Darrell Royal. “Reminds me of two-a-days … Continue reading »

There’s Little Hope in Land of the Fees

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By Gavin Moodie RECENTLY, the University of Texas system, which includes nine universities with more than 190,000 students, released a spreadsheet of 821 pages of information on its 13,000 academic staff. The information includes each academic’s name, pay, the sources of their pay, their rank, tenure status, teaching load, research grants and, for some, the … Continue reading »

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