Times of Texas
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin disapproves of outsourcing timeline
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 felt appropriate.”
To Boost Efficiency, UT Turns to Business Leaders
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 business community.
Years of tuition shell games clobber students, families
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 and avoid a tuition increase next year.
Longhorns Who Take Too Long
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 ambitious proposals Wednesday
Texas A&M president proposes tuition hike
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.
A Conversation with Michael Quinn Sullivan, President and CEO of Empower Texans
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 working in Texas politics. The article dubbed him “the enforcer” for his ability to motivate grassroots voters. The national political magazine “Campaigns & Elections” listed … Continue reading
Trouble in Texas
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 end of the academic year. According to the Texas Tribune, Sager’s relationship with the law school’s faculty “had become so strained that he was no longer able … Continue reading
Chancellor John Sharp shuffles Texas A&M communications staff
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 Jason Cook, who currently oversees communications for A&M and its governing system, will now focus solely on the flagship university. Steve Moore, who is chief … Continue reading
Accountability on the Quad
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 the already tarnished reputation of college sports. Schools like the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California, to … Continue reading
Poor Management Hurts College Completion Rates
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, if current trends hold, a great many of them will never finish their degrees — or even return for their sophomore years. The graduation rate … Continue reading
Results-based Model for Higher Education Within Reach. By Jeff Sandefer
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 lives and supports powerful breakthroughs in the sciences and the humanities. As a successful entrepreneur who has taught for more than 20 years in some … Continue reading
Technology and Teaching
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, and so forth? What about the teaching and learning of writing? In a flurry of recent exchanges (subject “Writing horse-shoe-of-horse-heading-east Technology”) on the Writing Program … Continue reading
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 teach few classes are really worth the cost to the public. Rick O’Donnell, dismissed on April 19 after only 49 days on the job as … Continue reading
Why Productivity Data Matter
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 than anything to do with political correctness, tenure or affirmative action. They hold the key, however, to bringing a true productivity boom to our colleges … Continue reading
UT System Board of Regents Doles Out Additional $20 Million
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 of Regents allocated an additional $20 million to UT from the Permanent University Fund during their meeting Thursday. This one-time increase will be an addition … 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
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
Americans For Prosperity – Texas
- Blogger provides fresh perspective of UT President Powers’ astroturf campaign to keep his job
- Texas primary ballot initiatives - non-binding polls
- Harmony Schools on CBS 60 Minutes - Turkish English teachers are needed
- School Board members censure fellow member - for dissent
- TPPF's Tom Lindsay and Maverick Owner Mark Cuban provide insight which could rock UT's ivory tower
- UT Regents Commended for Standing Up to Powers
- Texas to FWS: Leave Texas -- and the Lizard -- Alone
- San Antonio pushing almost $.5 Billion bond initiative
- AFP is the messenger of news Obama doesn't want out
- Local Governments Racking up Debt: House Ways & Means Committee Hearing - Testimony by Peggy Venable
Univision Austin
- Lo Más Hot de Texas
- Las cuatro más bellas en bikini
- Jennifer López no usa sostén
- Las bodas más caras de la historia
- Importante cierre de autopista en Houston este fin de semana
- "Tiempo de Danzón" en Dallas
- Acudió a Walmart por cambio de aceite y salió con símbolos satánicos en su auto
- Permiten cazar con silenciador en Texas
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
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
AgendaWise Reports
- Speaker Struas stragglers marked
- Murphy Turner connected to shadow PACs
- Trina Lanza on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Diane Patrick on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Straus the weak
- Diane Patrick on her vote for speaker
- Trina Lanza on her vote for speaker
- Vicki Truitt’s Trouble
- Mark Shelton on the expansion of gambling
- Mark Shelton on his priorities for the 83rd Legislature
Texas Insider
- Grass-Roots Politics: GOP-USA’s Bobby Eberle Talks GOP Politics
- Texas Unemployment Rate Down to 6.9%
- Boehner to Obama on Deficit War: ‘This Is a Line in the Sand’
- Catholic University Students Casualties Of ObamaCare
- Myth Busted: Vaccinations Are Not Immunizations
- Romney to Inch Closer to Clinching Party Nod
- Catholic Student’s Losing Coverage due to ObamaCare Mandates
- Home Loans for Veterans in Texas
- Administration Approves Nomination of Houston Police Officer as U.S. Marshall for the Southern District of Texas
- How the Gay-Marriage Mob Slimed Manny Pacquiao
Freedomworks.org Texas
- Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey endorses Matt Beebe for State Representative in Texas House District 121
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Training in Round Rock, Tx on Feb. 18th
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Events in Texas - January 2012
- FreedomWorks grassroots training in Shreveport, Louisiana on Oct. 8th!
- Another One Bites the (Fracking) Dust
- In the Shadow of the Senate: A New Tax Emerges
- Join FreedomWorks and local Houston-area groups for grassroots training on July 16th
- Texas to TSA: "Come and Take It."
- Join FreedomWorks and Houston Tea Party on July 16th!
- The Light Bulb Resistance Movement
Freedomworks.org Florida
- CPAC Florida Recap
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- FreedomWorks Kicks Off 'Give Us Liberty' Tour in Florida this week!
- What Do Rep. Allen Boyd's (D-FL) Constituents Think About Health Care Vote?
- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Woman's year-ago protest launched tea party movement in Florida
STEM
- STEM Ed Update: Sign-on Letter on Federal Budget, Upcoming Events, NEW STEM Reports
- Coalition Issues Core Policy Principles for 2012
- Coalition Testifies to House Approps on NSF’s Education Programs
- Quotes on STEM Education from the 2/28 House Markup of ESEA Legislation
- The White House Invites You to Join on a Budget Call to Discuss STEM Education
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