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Information from ESPN college football reporter Joe Schad and The Associated Press was used in this report. Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin had a phone conversation with Missouri chancellor […]
Information from ESPN college football reporter Joe Schad and The Associated Press was used in this report. Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin had a phone conversation with Missouri chancellor […]
By Mark Nino The Board of Regents for the University of Texas has approved a $30 million dollar plan to expand educational programs and recruit faculty in the Rio Grande […]
Written by Bill Conrad, bconrad@acnpapers.com The future of state-issued college loans is in the hands of Texas voters. A proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution would allow the sale of […]
Written by Liza Winkler This spring Texas State students can expect to shell out more money for tuition due to budget cuts made to higher education in the recent legislative […]
Written by Aricka Flowers, UOPX Writer Network Are American schools too harsh when it comes to discipline? A new study by the Council of State Governments Justice Center has some […]
Written by Jeff Sandefer Is it possible to create a new type of public university, where professors and administrators make clear promises to their students and deliver an exceptional […]
Submitted by Jeff Reece EduJax Jennifer Jennings, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University, has spent a lot of time studying how accountability systems affect […]
By Nick Summers Legal journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill turns to education reform in a new book, ‘Class Warfare.’ Brill talks to Nick Summers about the crisis in America’s […]
State looks to be at forefront of movement <img src="http://cmsimg.tennessean.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DN&Date=20110828&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=308280084&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Five-big-education-ideas-headed-TN-s-way" alt="Tennessee is gaining a reputation as a testing ground for educational trends.” /> Written by Julie Hubbard | The Tennessean […]
Recent grads are finding themselves swamped by bills for their education. By Terrie Morgan-Besecker tmorgan@timesleader.com Law & Order Reporter Justin Kozloski of Dallas job shadowing reporters at The Times Leader. […]
Reporter: Lilly Rockwell, The News Service of Florida Gov. Rick Scott may have one crucial ally in his nascent effort to overhaul higher education in Florida: State University System Chancellor […]
UT System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa Presents Action Plan to Position UT System as a Leader in Productivity and Excellence AUSTIN – The University of Texas System Board of Regents […]
New reform framework unites critics and supporters of ‘seven breakthrough solutions’ By Teddy Wilson In much-anticipated remarks to the University of Texas Board of Regents Thursday, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa laid […]
Statement on UT Board of Regents Meeting AUSTIN – Americans for Prosperity Foundation State Director Peggy Venable, and America’s Next Impact Director Chris Covo, issued the following statements today in […]
Written by Kevin Kiley Inside Texas Governor Rick Perry is surging in polls for the Republican nomination for president, but Francisco Cigarroa might be the Texan with the biggest political […]
Written by The Daily Texan Editorial Board Earlier this month, President William Powers Jr. announced that the University Budget Council will be expanded to include a student and a faculty […]
By Francis D. Fisher While you were away from Austin this summer, President William Powers Jr. set new goals for UT. He shifted from seeking money to finance the ever-escalating […]
Written By Curt Olson Curt W. Olson COlson@TexasBudgetSource.com The debate that raged over the cost, productivity, and efficiency of higher education in Texas calmed swiftly Thursday with the announcement of […]
By Melissa Ludwig The University of Texas Board of Regents on Thursday approved an action plan to raise quality and productivity at its 15 institutions in an era of declining […]
Written by MQSullivan Responding to calls for reform in higher education, the chancellor of the University of Texas today unveiled a plan that takes a good first step at improving […]
Written by Kevin Carey Rick Perry is wrong about many things, including (but not limited to) the reality of climate change, the treasonous nature of quantitative easing, and the execution […]
Written by Reeve Hamilton Enlargephoto by: Bob Daemmrich Chancellor Dr. Fransisco Cigarroa at the University of Texas Board of Regents meeting in Austin on May 11, 2011. At this morning’s […]
Statement by Justin Keener, spokesman for Texas Business for Higher Education, in response to today’s plan outlined by University of Texas System Chancellor Cigarroa: “This plan is a promising first […]
Mike Terry for The New York Times Mariah Long, who got a degree online from Western Governors University while in Germany, went to graduation in Utah. By TAMAR LEWIN Harvard […]
Written by: William Lutz Americans for Prosperity Texas held a news conference commemorating the first day of school. Several college students came and discussed their concern about student debt and […]
This morning at the University of Texas System Board of Regents meeting Chancellor Cigarroa unveiled an “action plan” that puts concrete steps toward implementing the Framework for Advancing Excellence, which […]
Written by Ralph K.M. Haurwitz AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF University of Texas System regents today are expected to establish a $10 million fund to help commercialize new technologies, inventions and other intellectual […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System has recognized 72 faculty members from institutions within the system for outstanding teaching, including 34 faculty members […]
Written by Richard Vedder For constructive change to happen anywhere, you need to know what needs changing, have the desire to make the needed reforms, and have the means to […]
The below statement is from the Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education in response to yesterday’s announcement by Senator Zaffirini and Representative Branch that the first public hearing of […]
Original post by mludwig Thursday’s meeting of the University of Texas Board of Regents will be a newsy one for those following the debate over higher education in Texas. After […]
Written by Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribune AFP Students One day before the start of one of the most important University of Texas Board of Regents meetings of the year, conservative […]
By Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel Gov. Rick Scott is exploring dramatic higher-education reforms that are similar to those already under way in Florida’s public school districts. Patterned after reforms being […]
The reformers who want to save the public schools are starting to make a difference, against ferocious opposition Written By JOEL KLEIN Like so many debates in America today, the […]
Written by Jeff Sandefer One of the great joys of being a teacher is getting the chance to work with other teachers who change the lives of students.Just this week […]
Written my by Marcus Smith In an era of online universities and their reputation of being nothing more than worthless degree mills, Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order to establish Western […]
By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post Writers Group I recently explored the distressing trend of higher education devolving into an ultra-expensive job-training program rather than giving students the opportunity to discover […]
Written by Linda Darling-Hammond and C. M. Rubin Early Steps to School Success, Save the Children US Programs (photo: Rick D’Elia) “I saw crumbling schools that are stealing the future […]
By Kevin Kiley George O. Wood, chief executive officer of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian denomination, talks often about the Feeding of the 5,000, a biblical story in […]
By Lesley Ryder Recent Hamilton graduate for Huffington Post With the rising costs of education, student debt seems to be as much a graduation requirement as course credits and thesis […]
New laws are boosting state’s higher education effort. By Gov. Rick Perry / Special to the Express-News Last week, Texas partnered with the Western Governors University in the creation of […]
By Mona Charen Anticipating his entry into the presidential race, the Washington Post ran a long piece on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s ideas about higher education. “A man of grand […]
By Dr. Ronald L. Trowbridge The controversy over reform in Texas higher education has confused the public. Which side is right? Watching a charge from one side, then a counter-charge […]
By Weston Hicks Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin provided an example of why Republicans have been losing for so long today, when she dismissed Rick Perry in strong terms for […]
Many students across the UT Campus planked to protest higher education costs. American’s for Prosperity claims that student loan debt in America has reached $1 trillion and they want the […]
By Andrew Gillen I understand where the higher ed establishment is coming from when the government starts making noises about holding them accountable. Nobody likes others questioning their performance, least […]
Teaching and research must continue to be linked for excellence. By Rick O’Donnell Fierce debates continue to rage in Texas about the future of our universities. As is often the […]
By Mark Bauerlein Readers of Brainstorm may have seen the survey of Chief Financial Officers whose results the Chronicle summarized here and here and here and, most importantly, here. The […]
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz Not too many people perform liver transplants in their spare time. Francisco Cigarroa says it keeps him grounded. Cigarroa’s day job since February 2009 has been […]
‘Yes, Some Teachers Do Very Little’ By Richard Vedder A huge brouhaha has erupted over the release and interpretation of data about the faculty of the University of Texas, centering […]