Better Colleges Failing to Lure Talented Poor
By DAVID LEONHARDT of NYT Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s best colleges, according to a new analysis of […]
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Tuition Freezes and Foundations on UT Regents’ Agenda
by Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribure The relationship between the University of Texas School of Law and an affiliated foundation, which drew headlines over a forgivable loan program, will be again […]
More battles loom.
By Jon Marcus Who’s boss? US governing bodies flex their muscles Virginia president keeps her job, but once-inert boards are stirring nationwide.
UC Berkeley to offer free online classes through edX
Edx, founded by Harvard and MIT, will host two not-for-credit UC Berkeley courses this fall. By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles TimesJuly 24, 2012, 6:14 p.m. UC Berkeley announced Tuesday that […]
Entry standards raised to improve SHSU retention, graduation rates
By George Mattingly More students may be able to gain admission into Sam Houston State University after the Texas State University System Board of Regents authorized the university to change […]
Texas A&M: There’s room for improvements
By GLENN DOWLING Special to The Eagle Recent criticism leveled at the A&M Board of Regents by former A&M President Ray Bowen and loyal supporter Jon Hagler was largely justified […]
Incoming UT freshmen getting earful on graduating in four years
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz – AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas, flashed the hook ‘em sign, then welcomed a group of incoming freshmen with a not-so-subtle […]
Trowbridge: Texas legislators neglect low-income and minority students
By Ronald L. Trowbridge – Special to the Star-Telegram It may seem exaggerated to accuse the Texas Legislature of neglecting low-income and minority students, but facts show otherwise. The recent […]
Colleges Are Racking Up Debt
The New York Times recently updated their breakdown of college costs and debts, revealing that for-profit schools are not the only bad guys in this troubled economy.
$10K degree at UTPB first in Texas
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.
Four Potential Futures of the College System
by Clark Aldrich Unschooling Rules 49: College: the hardest no-win decision your family may ever make.
Students seek tuition freeze at Arizona universities
by Anne Ryman – The Republic | azcentral.com After three straight years of large tuition increases, students appearing at university hearings Wednesday called for the Arizona Board of Regents to […]
How Can I Get a $10,000 Degree?
By Reeve Hamilton – Texas Tribune Enlargegraphic by: Todd Wiseman Hey, Texplainer: I hear Texas has a $10,000 degree. How can I get one? Early this month, Texas A&M […]
Groups debate quality, profit in universities
Liz Farmer | The Daily Texan Cost. Affordability. Four-year graduation rates. These buzzwords continue to fly around in the state higher education debate. One group is looking to turn focus […]
Post-Tenure Blues
By Kaustuv Basu The phrase “post-tenure review” can mean different things to different people. Talk of “post-tenure review” is in circulation at the University of Texas System after the Board […]
Texas Tech University Board of Regents Approve Tuition Hike
By: Julie Fisher ttu.edu Texas Tech University’s System Board of Regents’ finance committee has approved a tuition hike for the coming fall semester.
Frank Talk, Debate on the Future of Texas Universities. By Rick O’Donnell
Teaching and research must continue to be linked for excellence. By Rick O’Donnell Fierce debates continue to rage in Texas about the future of our universities. As is often the […]
How Productive Do Professors Have to Be?
By Charlotte Allen The firing of a controversial aide to the University of Texas system has triggered a full-blown debate over the productivity of teachers and whether “star” professors who […]
Rick O’Donnell Releases Faculty Productivity Analysis
By Reeve Hamilton A new analysis of faculty productivity data from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University-College Station argues that the institutions’ employment practices resemble “a […]
Surplus Truck Windshields, Surplus PhDs, and the Misguided Mission of Today’s Universities
By Jeff Sandefer While working in Russia in the 1990s, I saw factory after factory continuing to produce products that no one wanted. I have one particularly vivid memory of […]
Running ‘Round the Ivory Tower – Professor as Entrepreneur
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 […]
Who pays for O’Donnell’s Settlement With the UT System?
By Viviana Aldous After months of controversy surrounding the hiring of Rick O’Donnell, former director of Colorado’s higher education department, as a special adviser to the UT Board of Regents, […]
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 […]
Performance-based System For University Research
By Keith McDowell The bane of all individual independent researchers is the moment when one must put pen to paper to frame the next grant proposal from an ill-formed idea. […]
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 […]
It’s Hot in Texas – Improving the Effectiveness of Taxpayer Dollars Heats Up Higher Ed Establishment
Bruce S Trachtenberg If things aren’t hot enough in Texas this time of year, a right-leaning foundation focused on public policy is getting some people steamed up over its proposals […]
“Seven solutions” … Already Being Implemented at Texas A&M
By Nicole Garza Talks of higher education reform in the State of Texas have sparked passionate pleas from academics. “I and others would like to understand how the seven solutions […]
The Data is Dismissed as “factoids,” This Means Facts Someone Doesn’t Like
Crossfire in Fat City. An exchange in response. By DANIEL HALPER University of Illinois at Chicago professors Barbara Risman, William Bridges, and Anthony M. Orum write this letter to the editor […]
Much More Analysis Needs to be Done
If we truly wish to reflect better the costs and benefits of teaching. By Mary Lee Grant One of Texas A&M University’s most respected professors has written a letter saying […]
Texas Wrestles with Future of Higher Ed as Faculty Fesist GOP Governor’s Support of Reforms
AUSTIN, Texas — A tempest has erupted on college campuses in Texas over a conservative foundation’s proposal questioning the value taxpayers get from academic critiques of Shakespeare and calling for […]
Guarding Destructive Addiction – Texas Higher Ed Establishment Attacks Reform Efforts
Why is it “irresponsible” to expect change? – Higher ed controversy By Weston Hicks A recent article in a Bryan-College Station paper, The Eagle, provides a good example of the […]
University of Texas at Austin – Faculty Productivity and Costs Examined
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 […]
Gov. Perry – A Top Priority to Improve State Universities
The big lie making the rounds in Texas is that elected or appointed officials want to undermine or de-emphasize research at our colleges and universities By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF […]
The Debate Over Higher Ed in Texas Takes Center Stage
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – An intensifying debate over higher education in Texas is likely to take center stage at a meeting of the Texas A&M University System‘s board of […]
New Study: Professors Work Less – Students Pay More
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 […]
Texas Panel Debates Future of Research Universities
A panel of higher education and business executives at the University of Texas at Austin reflected high anxiety about the future of research universities, especially in Texas. David Daniel, the […]
New Carbon ‘sponge’ Could Revolutionize Energy Storage – UT Research
By Chris Jablonski Researchers at University of Texas – Austin have created a novel form of three-dimensional carbon that can be used as a greatly enhanced supercapacitor, holding promise for […]
UT Powers Wants to Stop Gov. Perry and UT Regents Dead in Their Tracks.
By William Lutz Powers announced change tenured professors can believe in UT President William Powers Jr. gave an unusual live address to the UT community Monday. His talk was officially […]
UT Regents Support Cigarroa’s New Framework for Measuring Success and Accountability
By Melissa Ludwig University of Texas System regents on Thursday issued a unanimous vote of confidence in its CEO, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, in an attempt to sooth recent turmoil at […]
In Texas Schools, A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Calories
SAN ANTONIO — Smile, Texas schoolchildren. You’re on calorie camera. That’s the idea behind a $2 million project being unveiled Wednesday in the lunchroom of a San Antonio elementary school, where […]
Jeff Sandefer Breaking His Silence on Higher Ed Debate
by Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribune Jeff Sandefer, the architect of the “seven breakthrough solutions” that have rocked the Texas higher education community, is breaking his silence on the matter. “It […]
e-Learning Better at Improving Performance Than Traditional Instruction
COLLEGE STATION, —More growth in learning takes place with individuals instructed with computer-based instruction methods — e-learning — compared to their counterparts instructed via traditional face-to-face methods, a study conducted […]
UT – A Conversation with Loftin and Powers – Research, Teaching and Reforms
By Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribune Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune is sitting down with Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin and University of Texas President William Powers, Jr. […]
Rick O’Donnell – The Responsibility of Leaders – Letter to Regent Hall
April 18, 2011 Dear Regent Hall: Per your request, here are my views of the continuing discussions in the media and elsewhere regarding the Regents’ task forces and my work […]
Research “Extremely Valuable,” UT Regents Tell Alumni
In a letter signed by Regents Chairman Gene Powell and vice chairmen Paul Foster, Steven Hicks and James Dannenbaum, the regents assure the worried alumni that they are committed to […]
UT System: “We’re Listening”
by Reeve Hamilton of Texas Tribune Enlarge Gene Powell and Francisco Cigarroa Top officials at the University of Texas System — Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and Board of Regents Chairman […]
