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Trowbridge: Texas legislators neglect low-income and minority students

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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 […]

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Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin disapproves of outsourcing timeline

April 11, 2012by Staff 2 Comments

By VIMAL PATEL vimal.patel@theeagle.com Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said the A&M System chief’s timeline regarding the possible outsourcing of many rank-and-file staff jobs was “not a timetable I […]

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To Boost Efficiency, UT Turns to Business Leaders

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by Reeve Hamilton Enlargephoto illustration by: Todd Wiseman Faced with shrinking state appropriations and increasing concerns about college costs, University of Texas President Bill Powers is reaching out to the […]

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Years of tuition shell games clobber students, families

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By Patricia Kilday Hart I should be happy for University of Houston students that President Renu Khator and the UH Board of Regents found a way to hold down costs […]

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Longhorns Who Take Too Long

February 17, 2012by Staff 2 Comments

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 […]

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Texas A&M president proposes tuition hike

February 17, 2012by Staff 9 Comments

By VIMAL PATEL vimal.patel@theeagle.com Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin proposes a 3.95 percent rise in student tuition at a hearing Wednesday.

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A Conversation with Michael Quinn Sullivan, President and CEO of Empower Texans

January 9, 2012by Staff Leave a comment

Michael Quinn Sullivan is president and CEO of Empower Texans, and its premier project, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. Texas Monthly has named Sullivan one of the 25 most influential people […]

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Trouble in Texas

January 7, 2012by Staff 1 Comment

Posted by Steven Harper Last month, University of Texas President Bill Powers asked his law school dean, Larry Sager, to resign months ahead of his originally planned departure at the […]

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Chancellor John Sharp shuffles Texas A&M communications staff

December 22, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By MATTHEW WATKINS matthew.watkins@theeagle.com Chancellor John Sharp on Tuesday reshuffled the Texas A&M System’s top public relations staff as part of his broad review of system communications. Sharp announced that […]

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Accountability on the Quad

September 8, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Written By C. THOMAS McMILLEN Forest A SERIES of recent scandals involving players receiving money, cars and other improper benefits, along with violations by recruiters and sports agents, has debased […]

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Poor Management Hurts College Completion Rates

August 18, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Low faculty productivity hurts students, taxpayers By RONALD L. TROWBRIDGE Later this month, more than 100,000 students will set foot for the first time on Texas public university campuses. Unfortunately, […]

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Results-based Model for Higher Education Within Reach. By Jeff Sandefer

August 8, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Jeff Sandefer Texans have an extraordinary opportunity to create a new results-based model for higher education in America, a model that prepares our students for more productive and meaningful […]

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Technology and Teaching

July 25, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Steven J. Corbett Is it a given that technology enhances the acts of writing, as it does the arts and sciences of film-making, design, engineering, data collection and analyses, […]

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How Productive Do Professors Have to Be?

July 25, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

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 […]

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Why Productivity Data Matter

July 20, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Rick O’Donnell (plus comments from Inside Higher Ed readers) “Faculty performance data” may be the three most dangerous words on American university campuses these days – much more controversial […]

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UT System Board of Regents Doles Out Additional $20 Million

July 14, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Regent Alex M. Cranberg gives his opinion regarding budgeting for additional university structures during a Board of Regents meeting Thursday afternoon. Anastasia Garcia By Huma Munir The UT System Board […]

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Gov. Perry – Making Public Higher Education Affordable for Generations

July 12, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

As rising student debt becomes a national issue, the push for belt-tightening and lower tuition strikes a chord. By Reeve Hamilton In 2003, Gov. Rick Perry signed off one of […]

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Let the Open Debate on Higher Education Flourish

July 8, 2011by Staff 36 Comments

By Ronald Trowbridge, Ph.D. The Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education recently formed to defend the status quo against the efforts of university regents to promote transparency and accountability […]

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Texas – Education Cuts, Population and Jobs Growth

July 1, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Darrell Preston andDavid Mildenberg Under Rick Perry‘s leadership, Texas has registered the largest growth in jobs and population among the 50 states while amassing a deficit estimated at between […]

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Opponents to ‘breakthrough solutions’ – Ramping up Fight

July 1, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Yet, no solutions presented on the “right way” to improve higher ed. By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz A group of business, civic and education leaders is ramping up its efforts to […]

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Texas Tech Using Cost/productivity Data to Form 2011-2012 Budget

June 30, 2011by Staff 12 Comments

By Patrick Brendel The release of data on individual faculty members’ salary and productivity has sent shockwaves through the world of Texas higher education, pitting agitators for “transparency” and “accountability” […]

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Program to Address Declining Latino Population in Higher Education

June 27, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

  Dr. Shaun Harper, an associate professor from the University of Pennsylvania, talks about African-American and Latino men in higher education at the Latino Male Symposium. The event was hosted […]

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About 86 percent of Texas Lawmakers Have Four-year Degrees, compared to 25 percent of Texans

June 24, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

Report: Texas Legislature has greatest percentage of lawyers By Patrick Brende As a hub for tort reform and conservative rhetoric, Texas might be expected to have a statehouse with a […]

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Higher Ed “Coalition for Excellence” Formed to Oppose UT Regents

June 16, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Reeve Hamilton A powerful group of individuals — including former regents, former university system chancellors and former university presidents — from around Texas have joined together to address the […]

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A&M Administrators, Faculty Discuss ‘seven solutions’

June 15, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

How to communicate effectively the value of higher education in Texas. By Mary Lee Grant Texas A&M University faculty and administration have held several meetings in the past week in […]

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Texas A&M System Regents Say TPPF Not at Fault For McKinney Departure

June 13, 2011by Staff 5 Comments

By VIMAL PATEL Sources familiar with the departure of Mike McKinney as A&M System chancellor say he was pushed out, but not for resistance to a conservative think tank’s ideas. […]

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Controversial Higher Ed Reforms Perry and TPPF Avocate Continue to Command Attention

June 12, 2011by Staff 10 Comments

By Mary Lee Grant Controversial higher education reforms proposals by Gov. Rick Perry and conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation continue to command attention from media outlets. The Wall […]

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It’s Hot in Texas – Improving the Effectiveness of Taxpayer Dollars Heats Up Higher Ed Establishment

June 8, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

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 […]

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Rick Perry Stirs Texas Higher Ed Turmoil Over Reform Proposals

June 6, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

Professors grumble it’s the Seven Deadly Sins of Higher Education AUSTIN, Texas — When barbecue research is second-guessed in Texas, the turmoil in higher education must be getting serious. Responding […]

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Texas Wrestles with Future of Higher Ed as Faculty Fesist GOP Governor’s Support of Reforms

June 6, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

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 […]

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Encouraging Teachers to Improve Teaching Effectiveness – UT Controversy Continues

June 3, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports on a chicken-or-egg situation regarding Texas A&M University’s “Student Led Awards for Teaching Excellence,” and whether A&M based its controversial faculty teaching awards on a […]

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Texas A&M McKinney Says – TPPF Did Not Influence Program With “Seven Breakthrough Solutions”

June 2, 2011by Staff 8 Comments

By VIMAL PATEL Top Texas A&M System leaders have repeatedly said the idea for a program that gives teachers cash based on anonymous student evaluations did not come from the […]

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Seven Breakthrough Solutions Would Boost Productivity and Accountability at Public Universities

May 31, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Reeve Hamilton At a meeting of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, chairman Richard Box appeared to shrug off a controversial set of “breakthrough solutions” for higher […]

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Professors Who Don’t Want Accountability Blame “Seven Breakthrough Solutions.”

May 31, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Mary Lee Grant More than 800 professors signed a letter presented during a dramatic board of regents meeting this week in which angry faculty spoke out against Texas A&M […]

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In op-ed, A&M Professor Makes Case for Drastic Restructuring of Texas Higher Ed System

May 25, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

This is a follow up to the “Lemons” article yesterday. By Mary Lee Grant In an op-ed published in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Texas A&M University associate professor of history […]

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Chairman of A&M Regents – Concerned About the Future of Higher Education

May 25, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

“I am concerned about the future of higher education in our state and across the country as costs continue to escalate and a first-class education may be moving out of […]

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Senate Approves Outcome Based Higher Education Bill

May 24, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Erin Mulvaney/Reporter The Senate passed a measure Tuesday that would link part of higher education funding to the student and university “outcomes” and performance. The bill carried by Sen. […]

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UT President Powers Described Productivity Analysis as “inappropriate” and “not useful.”

May 24, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Reeve Hamilton Before the University of Texas System released an 821-page draft document showing faculty members’ salaries, research expenditures and total numbers of students taught, among other pieces of […]

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Texas Higher Ed Needs Restructuring

May 24, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By JONATHAN COOPERSMITH – Special to The Eagle If life hands you lemons, make lemonade. From that perspective, the unexpected and possibly involuntary resignation of Mike McKinney as the chancellor […]

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Tillerson: The U.S. Public Education System for Children Needs Fundamental Change

May 20, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By ELIZABETH SOUDER AUSTIN — As Texas politicians debate whether to reorient universities toward teaching rather than research, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. gave a warning. Rex Tillerson […]

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Rick Perry: Separating Truth from Fiction in Higher Education Research

May 15, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

One proven tactic of propaganda is that if you want to distract people from the conversation you should be having, don’t be afraid to lie … and lie big.  The […]

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It’s Only a Controversy When Conservative Ideas Are Involved

May 13, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

Abby W. Schachter The Chronicle of Higher Education is troubled by the influence of a conservative think tank on higher education in Texas. The story by Jack Stripling concerns the resignation of […]

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TPPF Hosts Higher Education Debate

May 4, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By William Lutz The Texas Public Policy Foundation hosted a panel discussion April 29 on higher education, which featured a surprising guest — University of Texas President William Powers, Jr. […]

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Aggieland Takes Shot at Perry. Who is Doing the Damage?

May 4, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

Group of Texas A&M alumni calls his ‘seven solutions’ naïve, damaging By PATRICIA KILDAY HART AUSTIN BUREAU AUSTIN — Signaling the spread of a roiling controversy, 22 “distinguished alumni” at […]

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State’s Top Universities Offer New Opportunity In the Right Direction

May 1, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By REEVE HAMILTON Texas Tribune To lawmakers — at least those who know about it — the addition tacked onto an omnibus public education accountability bill in the 2009 legislative […]

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University Reformers Advancing With Sandefer’s – ‘Seven’

April 29, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

By Melissa Ludwig / mludwig@express-news.net Effect on research, views on profs questioned. University professors are: a) Teaching too much b) Not teaching enough c) Wasting time on frivolous research d) […]

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Armey, FreedomWorks Back Gov. Perry in Higher Ed Reform Controversy

April 27, 2011by Staff 4 Comments

By Patrick Brende Texas Independent Dick Armey (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/markn3tel) Opinion column cites stats from 1996 report The Texas branch of FreedomWorks has thrust itself into the debate over […]

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UT Education Reform – The Controversy (and Battle) Has Just Begun

April 27, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

By Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribune One week ago, Rick O’Donnell’s employment at the University of Texas System came to an abrupt end after 50 days marked by tension and confusion […]

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Controversy Could Hurt UT in Long Run-UT Regent Cranberg Speaks Out.

April 25, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

By Melissa Ludwig mludwig@express-news.net Recent controversy at the University of Texas System could hamper serious attempts for reform and taint the results of two task forces studying efficiency and online […]

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Fernando Trevino Appointed by Gov. Perry

April 23, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Adryana Boyne I am so excited to share with all of you that Fernando Trevino Jr. has been recently appointed by Governor Rick Perry to serve as Student Regent […]

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