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		<title>President Bill Powers Jr. and Governor Rick Perry: Trenches and Turf.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bill Powers Jr. School of How to Win Friends and Influence People. (Dale Carnegie would be ashamed) Posted by WILLisms Texas is ground zero in the national higher education reform movement. While the Washington crowd tends to fixate on President Obama’s piddling slap fight with Congressional Republicans over government-secured student loan rates, the real &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/17/president-bill-powers-jr-and-governor-rick-perry-trenches-and-turf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4922&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regents freeze in-state tuition, fees at UT for two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz The governing board of the University of Texas today froze in-state undergraduate tuition and fees for the next two years at the Austin flagship. But the Board of Regents allowed most of the other academic and health campuses in the UT System to raise in-state academic charges, albeit not as much &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/03/regents-freeze-in-state-tuition-fees-at-ut-for-two-years/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4916&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$10K degree at UTPB first in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY CAYLOR BALLINGER The University of Texas of the Permian Basin will be the first university in Texas to offer a $10,000 four-year degree program. The Texas Science Scholar Program was approved at the University of Texas System Board of Regents meeting in Austin on Wednesday. The program will offer a four-year degree program costing &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/03/10k-degree-at-utpb-first-in-texas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4911&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As UT, A&amp;M Regents Meet the Week, Governor Eyes Tuition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Reeve Hamilton When the regents of the state’s two largest university systems assemble this week — the University of Texas System on Wednesday and Thursday and Texas A&#38;M University System on Thursday and Friday — the most anticipated agenda item for both will be setting tuition. In the months preceding the regents&#8217; decision, many &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/02/as-ut-am-regents-meet-the-week-governor-eyes-tuition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4906&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think law school&#8217;s expensive? You don&#8217;t know the half of it &#8211; Outrageous!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karen Sloan Law School Transparency executive director Kyle McEntee U.S. News &#38; World Report caused a minor stir in March when it reported that graduates of American Bar Association-accredited law schools leave with $100,433 in educational loan debt. But that figure doesn&#8217;t reflect the true cost of financing a law degree — a statistic &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/02/think-law-schools-expensive-you-dont-know-the-half-of-it-outrageous/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4901&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;M, UT tuition hikes</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/01/am-ut-tuition-hikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 04:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JIM VERTUNO AUSTIN &#8211; Students at most campuses in the University of Texas and Texas A&#38;M University systems would pay more in tuition next fall under proposals scheduled to be voted on by their governing boards this week. A plan to raise tuition at the University of Texas at Austin by an average 2.6 percent &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/05/01/am-ut-tuition-hikes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4893&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outside effort could rekindle UT faculty productivity and tuition increase controversy.</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/25/outside-effort-could-rekindle-ut-faculty-productivity-and-tuition-increase-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; by Reeve Hamilton of Texas Tribune National Group Calls on UT System to Freeze Tuition &#160; Enlargephoto by: Todd Wiseman Advocates for a moratorium on tuition increases at public universities — specifically at the University of Texas System — will attempt to deliver bags of ice to the Capitol offices of Lt. Gov. David &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/25/outside-effort-could-rekindle-ut-faculty-productivity-and-tuition-increase-controversy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4889&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters’ new front &#8211; the corruption of higher education</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/23/protesters-new-front-the-corruption-of-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans have finally awakened to the decades-long corruption of higher education By Alexander Zaitchik Gan Golan holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt, during Occupy DC activities in Washington, on Oct. 6, 2011. (Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin) Forget the ballerina on the bull. The iconic image of the Occupy encampments is a Zorro-masked &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/23/protesters-new-front-the-corruption-of-higher-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4885&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Schools Prepare for a New Kind of Posse</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/18/texas-schools-prepare-for-a-new-kind-of-posse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Reeve Hamilton &#160; Enlargephoto by: Caleb Bryant Miller The Posse Foundation, NY. Starting this fall, high school seniors in the Houston Independent School District will have an opportunity to vie for one of 30 golden tickets to a unique higher-education experience. Teachers, principals and community leaders will get to nominate students to become members &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/18/texas-schools-prepare-for-a-new-kind-of-posse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4881&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas school board takes aim at teacher longevity bonuses</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/16/texas-school-board-takes-aim-at-teacher-longevity-bonuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Gunn EAGnews.org KILLEEN, Texas – Bit by bit, school boards around the nation are starting to understand the key to surviving the current recession: cutting unnecessary labor costs that eat up huge chunks of school district budgets. A good example comes from the Killeen, Texas school district, where the school board is considering &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/16/texas-school-board-takes-aim-at-teacher-longevity-bonuses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4876&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CA university slammed for pepper-spraying students</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/16/ca-university-slammed-for-pepper-spraying-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey Wildanger, one of the students pepper sprayed by campus police officers at UC-Davis last November, questions members of a task force that looked into the incident, during a town hall style meeting held at the school on Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO — State lawmakers are calling for greater oversight of campus police departments after investigators &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/16/ca-university-slammed-for-pepper-spraying-students/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4871&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas A&amp;M President R. Bowen Loftin disapproves of outsourcing timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By VIMAL PATEL vimal.patel@theeagle.com Texas A&#38;M President R. Bowen Loftin said the A&#38;M System chief&#8217;s timeline regarding the possible outsourcing of many rank-and-file staff jobs was &#8220;not a timetable I felt appropriate.&#8221; &#8220;I made that very clear,&#8221; Loftin told a meeting of the Faculty Senate on Monday. &#8220;We tend to take our time here at &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/11/texas-am-president-r-bowen-loftin-disapproves-of-outsourcing-timeline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4863&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Boost Efficiency, UT Turns to Business Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Reeve Hamilton Enlargephoto illustration by: Todd Wiseman Faced with shrinking state appropriations and increasing concerns about college costs, University of Texas President Bill Powers is reaching out to the business community. Last year, the Legislature cut the university&#8217;s funding for the current biennium by approximately $92 million. Now, Powers has assembled a 13-member committee &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/11/to-boost-efficiency-ut-turns-to-business-leaders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4857&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Potential Futures of the College System</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/10/four-potential-futures-of-the-college-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clark Aldrich  Unschooling Rules 49: College: the hardest no-win decision your family may ever make. What is the future of colleges? What are different models for tertiary education, and how might they come about? A think tank asked me to be on a panel discussing the future of colleges. To organize my thoughts, I &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/10/four-potential-futures-of-the-college-system/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4850&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas colleges should take steps to measure learning</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/06/texas-colleges-should-take-steps-to-measure-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas K. Lindsay When the national study, &#8220;Academic Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,&#8221; was published last year, its findings were alarming. Of the national sample of students it surveyed, 45 percent failed to show &#8220;any significant improvement in learning&#8221; after two years in college. Even after four full years in college, 36 percent &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/04/06/texas-colleges-should-take-steps-to-measure-learning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&#038;blog=21463263&#038;post=4846&#038;subd=timesoftexas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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