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UT-Austin Unveils Plan to Boost Graduation Rates – by Reeve Hamilton
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’s four-year graduation rate to 70 percent by 2016.
Senator Zaffirini Grills Her Friend UT Chancellor Cigarroa – By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, has known Francisco Cigarroa since he was born. His mother is one of her best friends. His father is her physician. But Cigarroa, the chancellor of the University of Texas System, didn’t alert Zaffirini, who leads the Senate Higher Education Committee, when a controversy … Continue reading
UT System Launches MyEdu Partnership to Increase Efficiency
By Liz Farmer The UT System announced a partnership Tuesday with the interactive website MyEdu to increase online advising efforts across UT institutions. The partnership is part of UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s Framework for Excellence Action Plan, which focuses on trimming costs by increasing university efficiency. The goal for implementing MyEdu is to increase … Continue reading
Alleged Looter Calls For Eroding University Governance
Written by Michael Quinn Sullivan Empower Texans One can understand the impulse of some bureaucrats and legislators to shield themselves from oversight. But it’s surprising to find a citizen — a businessman, no less! — cheerleading for such recklessness… Until you realize he presided over “one of the largest financial institution failures in U.S. history.” … Continue reading
Western Governors University Announces Investment in WGU Texas
WGU Texas, a subsidiary of the nationally recognized nonprofit Western Governors University, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. WGU Texas announced that it is one of three state subsidiaries that will be supported by a $4.5 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This investment will help the state’s new online … Continue reading
UT Regents Bless Cigarroa Plan
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 meeting of the University of Texas System Board of Regents, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa won unanimous approval for a plan addressing hot-button higher ed issues of … Continue reading
Coalition Encouraged by Announcement Joint Oversight Committee
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 the Joint Oversight committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency would be held in September. The Committee’s release is below for your reference. COALITION … Continue reading
Texas Continues Building on Higher Ed Successes
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 WGU Texas, an accredited, online university offering degrees in more than 50 areas of study, many of them vital to meeting the demands of the … Continue reading
Shameful Shilling
By MQSullivan, Empower Texans Whatever else the Fourth Estate might have once been, reporters of the past were at least willing to ask tough questions of those holding the reins of power and access to the people’s purse. Today, whether it’s the Washington Post or the Texas Tribune, the press seems to exist more to … Continue reading
Gov. Perry Announces Creation of Western Governors University Texas
Online university to make a college degree more affordable and accessible for Texans AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry, with the support of Higher Education Chairs Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Rep. Dan Branch, today announced the creation of WGU Texas, a subsidiary of Western Governors University (WGU), which is an accredited, nationally-recognized, nonprofit university. WGU Texas … Continue reading
Texplainer: Will Budget Cuts Mean Higher Tuition? By Reeve Hamilton
By Reeve Hamilton In the wake of well-documented budget woes, the state Legislature took a more than 9 percent chunk out of higher education funding for public universities and colleges in the recent session. In June, shortly after the budget decisions were made at the Capitol, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents called … Continue reading
Students, Parents and Taxpayers First – By Rick O’Donnell
Having spent many years in public service, advancing K-12 education accountability, tax relief, higher education reform and running for Congress, one lesson I’ve learned is you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. If you had asked me before I started as Special Advisor to the University of Texas Board of Regents what … Continue reading
Attacking the Cost of College, From the Outside
By Reeve Hamilton If there was a theme to the just-concluded 82nd legislative session it was do more with less, and Rep. Dan Branch, Dallas Republican and chairman of the House Higher Education Committee, embraced it by attacking the cost of college from multiple angles. He pushed through legislation to try to lower what students … Continue reading
Gov. Perry Appoints Individuals Based on Their Qualifications, Willingness to Serve
By Mary Lee Grant A&M regents are expected to name Jay Kimbrough to a pair of top positions later this week. While Texas A&M’s choice of an interim chancellor is looking more certain, a fresh controversy is developing around the way Gov. Rick Perryselected a student regent for the system’s board.The Texas Tribune reported that … Continue reading
Graduate Quota
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
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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
- In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn
- Florida GOP moving forward with several bills to increase state funding for charter schools
- Jeb Bush foundation helps shape Florida education policy
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