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Chairman Gene Powell
UT Austin shifts orientation focus to academics
By Megan Strickland With two months until the class of 2016 begins arriving on campus to register for their freshman classes, University officials announced Monday a significant shift toward focus on academics for undergraduate orientation this summer.
UT System Leaders Look Back at a Long Year – by Reeve Hamilton
by Reeve Hamilton University of Texas System Chancellor Dr. Francisco Cigarroa (l), is congratulated by UT Regents Chairman Gene Powell (r) after the UT Regents gave Cigarroa a vote of confidence on May 12, 2011. Like many at the end of this year, University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and Gene Powell, the chairman … Continue reading
UT Chairman Gene Powell: Not in a Position to Take Risk With UT Assets
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz The people who manage $27.5 billion in higher education endowments and other assets for the University of Texas System Board of Regents say they have concerns about a host of financial and geopolitical developments. Lately, they’ve been fretting about the potential for an “emerging-market bubble pop.” That’s investment-speak for a sense … Continue reading
Texas Coalitions Spar Over Scholars’ Time, Research, Pay
Inefficient professors are the targets in Gov. Rick Perry‘s plan to reform higher education By Katherine Mangan Austin, Tex. Depending on whom you talk to in Texas these days, college professors are either elitist intellectuals oblivious to the financial struggles of their students or hard-working teachers and researchers being pressured to churn out graduates like … Continue reading
Powers and Cigarroa Unavailable for Comment. Zaffirini Denied Anything Unseemly.
Top UT officials under fire – Former adviser says they blocked release of data By MELISSA LUDWIG Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7635188.html#ixzz1Qr7dEJQe Rick O’Donnell, a former special adviser to the University of Texas System who received a $70,000 settlement, this week skewered top UT officials for trying to block the release of faculty productivity data, accusing them … Continue reading
Former UT adviser O’Donnell Says Zaffirini Mounted a Campaign to Demonize the Regents
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
Emails Give Insight Into UT Controversy
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
UT Board Chairman Disputes Fired Official’s Account
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz The chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents issued a statement today taking issue with comments by former system official Rick O’Donnell in an American-Statesman story. Here’s the statement: “The comments made by Rick O’Donnell in today’s Austin American-Statesman with regard to his recollection of interactions with the … Continue reading
Controversy Deflected Attention From Important Work
Fired UT advisor Rick O’Donnell gets $70,000 settlement By MELISSA LUDWIG The University of Texas System has settled for $70,000 with a former special adviser who threatened to sue after being fired in April, according to a settlement offer released by UT officials. Rick O’Donnell’s brief employment at UT kicked up a storm of controversy, … Continue reading
UT Controversy – Rick O’Donnell, UT System Settle
By Reeve Hamilton The Rick O’Donnell saga at the University of Texas System appears to have reached an end. Last week, under threat of a lawsuit, the system agreed to a settlement with the former adviser. O’Donnell was hired as a $200,000-a-year special adviser to the board of regents in February. His first day on … Continue reading
Entrepreneur and Perry Friend Sandefer, Puts Texas at Center of Higher Ed Firestorm
By S.C. GWYNNE and GARY JACOBSON, The Dallas Morning News In 1985, a young Harvard Business School student from Abilene named Jeff Sandefer had an idea to make money from the catastrophic bust in the oil and gas business. The son of a wildcatter, he knew how bad things were in the Oil Patch. He … Continue reading
UT Regent Chairman Gene Powell Welcomes Ideas From New Coalition
He looks forward to hearing from this new group and working with them in the areas of quality, access, accountability and transparency By Melissa Ludwig A group of more than 200 powerful philanthropists, business leaders and other stakeholders have formed a grassroots coalition to push back against dramatic changes sought for Texas colleges and universities … Continue reading
Teaching Not Priority at UT – Why Public Colleges Are So Expensive
By Peggy Venable Long-awaited performance data at the University of Texas has now been analyzed by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The findings are nothing less than shocking and help explain why our public colleges have become so expensive. The data reveals that a sizable percentage of the teaching staff at our premier … Continue reading
UT Controversy Buzzwords – Accountability, Productivity, Excellence, Accessibility, Transparency
By Reeve Hamilton The current controversy dominating the higher education headlines in Texas is nothing if not nuanced. It’s hard for anyone to disagree with the broad buzzwords used by both sides: accountability, productivity, excellence, accessibility, transparency. One might be hard-pressed to find an official of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which has promoted the … Continue reading
Controversial UT Regent Hopes to “Push a Reset Button”
By Reeve Hamilton Enlarge photo by: Bob Daemmrich Regent Alex M. Cranberg at the University of Texas Board of Regents meeting on May 12, 2011. On Feb. 12, Gene Powell, the chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents, sent a note to Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the UT System, about the newest … Continue reading
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Times of Florida
- Rick Scott, Florida Governor, Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill
- La Raza Launches Campaign to Register Hispanic Voters
- Next Generation: What Does the Future Hold for Hispanic College Graduates?
- Luidia finds that tight budgets change, don’t eliminate tech implementations
- Romney’s Attack on Latinos Sends the Right Off a Cliff
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STEM
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