University of Texas at Tyler officials presented faculty awards during the 2011-12 Opening Convocation this past week, President Rodney Mabry announced. Recipients and awards are: 2011 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award: […]
By DAVID HOGBERG, INVESTOR‘S BUSINESS DAILY View Enlarged Image College students and their families have struggled to pay for the rising cost of tuition, a cost that has been driven in part […]
‘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 […]
We thought this was a good story, but we thought it misinformed for the subject to suggest “It appears to me that someone, for some reason, is manufacturing a crisis.” – […]
If you want to get into the numbers and specifics, here is a post from Rick O’Donnell‘s blog yesterday. In addition, we posted some interesting comments, if you care to […]
By Audrey White Faculty and staff members will receive merit-based pay increases despite the University’s budget crunch, according to an email President William Powers Jr. sent to employees Wednesday. The […]
By Terri E. Givens There has been a great deal of discussion around the idea of entrepreneurship in higher education. At the University of Texas, we have the usual business […]
By Reeve Hamilton In early May, when the University of Texas System released much anticipated data used to measure faculty productivity, it came with a caveat: users were warned that […]
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 […]
With state funding for higher education on the wane and the public growing more restive about continuing increases in tuition, universities are seeking out other sources of money. A popular […]
By any reasonable measure, George Plopperis a skilled and successful teacher. The associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won awards for his teaching in […]
A post by Todd Zywicki, about whom ACTA has written in the past, writes about similar cost concerns to those of David Rubenstein. “Inside Higher Ed” reports that Dartmouth College […]
By Huma Munir President William Powers Jr. came out against what he called “flawed” productivity analyses of the University that have been cropping up since the system released data on […]
My new study suggests a simple way to cut college tuition in half. By RICHARD VEDDER No sooner do parents proudly watch their children graduate high school than they must […]
Dallas Morning News With more than 52,000 students and many nationally ranked academic programs, the University of Texas at Austin is one of the most productive universities in the United […]
Recently released preliminary data from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin strongly suggest that the state of Texas could move toward making college more affordable by moderately increasing faculty […]
A push to root out ‘waste’ at public universities in Texas using quantitative metrics – including research grants – to assess faculty performance is making its way across the state. […]
To Faculty and Staff of The Texas A&M University System: I want to personally thank each of you for your ongoing commitment to the highest educational standards and your passion […]
By WILLisms.com An interesting new study highlights the vast disparities in teaching and research at UT: Looking only at the UT Austin campus, if the 80 percent of the faculty […]
By Sibyl West | by Richard Vedder, Christopher Matgouranis, Jonathan Robe If bottom 80 percent were half as productive as top 20 percent, tuition could be cut in half AUSTIN […]
By: Matt S Dowling There has been a lot of debate on how to rein in tuition cost and a new study released by the Center for Affordability and Productivity shows […]
