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		<title>UT tenure review policy receives mixed reaction from faculty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Teddy Wilson UT Austin Tower The debate surrounding higher education in Texas has affected the state’s colleges in different ways, and now it appears that the faculty at the University of Texas (UT) System colleges are the focus of a new reform. A move to change the way professor tenure is reviewed–supported by the &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/23/ut-tenure-review-policy-receives-mixed-reaction-from-faculty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4699&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students push for voting power in higher education</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/22/students-push-for-voting-power-in-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Miller Undergraduate government officers are seeking to place a student representative who would be able to vote on matters from tuition increases to presidential appointments on the state’s higher education board. Michael Stannard, director of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada’s department of legislative affairs, said student input on those types &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/22/students-push-for-voting-power-in-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&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4695&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing an illusion in college admissions -</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/22/chasing-an-illusion-in-college-admissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial Board Statesman For decades, the courts have tried to settle the use of race in university admissions only to find that when they grant satisfaction in one case, dissatisfaction arises to create another. The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider a lawsuit brought against the University of Texas by a white student &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/22/chasing-an-illusion-in-college-admissions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4689&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tool estimates education&#8217;s cost</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/21/tool-estimates-educations-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Bierer Lee Bierer is an independent college adviser based in Charlotte. &#160; Whenever I&#8217;ve written about financial aid issues, it&#8217;s always been directed toward high school seniors, but a new tool in the marketplace has been developed that assists families of high school underclassmen predict the cost of college. The &#8220;Net Price Calculator&#8221; (NPC) &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/21/tool-estimates-educations-cost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4680&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wealthy Colleges See Spike In Fundraising &#8211; UT Austin #11</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/18/wealthy-colleges-see-spike-in-fundraising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Krishnadev Calamur There are college rankings, and there are college rankings: the nation&#8217;s top colleges, the best basketball teams, the top party schools. Here&#8217;s another: a list of 20 institutions and the money they received in 2011. Stanford topped the list, raising more money from private donors than anyone else in 2011 ($709.42 million). &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/18/wealthy-colleges-see-spike-in-fundraising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4673&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WT mulls tuition hike &#8211; “Across the country, it’s gotten tough to pay for college.”</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/18/wt-mulls-tuition-hike-across-the-country-its-gotten-tough-to-pay-for-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yann Ranaivo yann.ranaivo@amarillo.com West Texas A&#38;M University officials will discuss possible tuition and fee increases of up to $150 per semester when they meet with students at the end of the month, a school official said Thursday. R. Bowen Loftin, president of Texas A&#38;M University in College Station, unveiled a plan Wednesday to raise &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/18/wt-mulls-tuition-hike-across-the-country-its-gotten-tough-to-pay-for-college/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4669&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Changing Value of Tenure</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/the-changing-value-of-tenure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jeff Sandefer There’s something interesting happening when a professor—at a prestigious university no less—gives up his hard-won tenure to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity in innovative education. But, as The Chronicle of Higher Education mentions in a recent piece, that’s exactly what one Stanford professor’s done : And then this week, the Stanford University professor who &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/the-changing-value-of-tenure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4663&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Longhorns Who Take Too Long</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/longhorns-who-take-too-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mitch Smith Partly in response to outside criticism that its four-year graduation rate of 50 percent is too low, the University of Texas at Austin outlined a number of ambitious proposals Wednesday aiming to raise that measure by 20 points for its next class of entering freshmen. The plan, created by a 14-member student &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/longhorns-who-take-too-long/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4655&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas A&amp;M president proposes tuition hike</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/texas-am-president-proposes-tuition-hike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By VIMAL PATEL vimal.patel@theeagle.com Texas A&#38;M president R. Bowen Loftin proposes a 3.95 percent rise in student tuition at a hearing Wednesday. The plan would have to be approved by the A&#38;M System Board of Regents, which is scheduled to determine tuition rates at its meeting in May. Student tuition would rise 3.95 percent next &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/texas-am-president-proposes-tuition-hike/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4650&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commissioner addresses average</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/commissioner-addresses-average/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mehlhaff / Staff Writer Denton Record-Chronicle DALLAS — Texas’ higher education commissioner told the University of North Texas Board of Regents that higher education in Texas has worked hard to be average. Raymund Paredes was talking about the Closing the Gaps initiative started by the Higher Education Coordinating Board in 2000. He goes &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/17/commissioner-addresses-average/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4646&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UT-Austin Unveils Plan to Boost Graduation Rates &#8211; by Reeve Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/16/ut-austin-unveils-plan-to-boost-graduation-rates-by-reeve-hamilton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated, 5:30 p.m Wed.: UT-Austin President Bill Powers issued a campus-wide email this afternoon acknowledging his receipt of the task force’s recommendations to boost the school&#8217;s four-year graduation rate to 70 percent by 2016. “Some of these, such as mandatory freshman orientation, will be implemented immediately,” he wrote. “Others will need additional input from faculty &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/16/ut-austin-unveils-plan-to-boost-graduation-rates-by-reeve-hamilton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4638&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UT panel recommends steps to boost graduation rate</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/16/ut-panel-recommends-steps-to-boost-graduation-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz A panel of faculty members and students at the University of Texas today recommended a host of measures, including mandatory freshman orientation and stepped-up advising, to boost four-year graduation rates to 70 percent by 2016. The rate at UT, for full-time students entering a college for the first time in 2007, &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/16/ut-panel-recommends-steps-to-boost-graduation-rate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4633&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want Latinos’ votes? Ease college access &#8211; by  Bill Maxwell</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/14/want-latinos-votes-ease-college-access-by-bill-maxwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maxwell &#8211; The Tampa Tribune. A few days before Florida’s Republican primary, former Gov. Jeb Bush wrote a column suggesting ways the GOP could win the Hispanic vote in November as it seeks to control both houses of Congress and take back the White House. Bush asked Republicans to “echo the aspirations” of Hispanics. &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/14/want-latinos-votes-ease-college-access-by-bill-maxwell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4626&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-tenure reviews will be good for UT campuses</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/13/post-tenure-reviews-will-be-good-for-ut-campuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some professors at Texas university campuses have had a rude awakening, and at least a few are very unhappy. On Thursday, University of Texas System regents unanimously endorsed a call for enhanced performance reviews of tenured faculty members. Tenure is sacred in higher education, meant to safeguard academic freedom. It removes the threat of job &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/13/post-tenure-reviews-will-be-good-for-ut-campuses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4618&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Odds and ends from UT regents&#8217; meeting &#8211; By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz</title>
		<link>http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/10/odds-and-ends-from-ut-regents-meeting-by-ralph-k-m-haurwitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz- AMERICAN-STATESMAN Jottings from a reporter&#8217;s notebook following a two-day meeting this week of the University of Texas System Board of Regents at UT-San Antonio : Regent Robert Stillwell of Houston, a longtime associate of oilman T. Boone Pickens, is beginning to cement a reputation as the pithiest of the nine regents. &#8230; <a href="http://timesoftexas.com/2012/02/10/odds-and-ends-from-ut-regents-meeting-by-ralph-k-m-haurwitz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timesoftexas.com&amp;blog=21463263&amp;post=4617&amp;subd=timesoftexas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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