The Bill Powers Jr. School of How to Win Friends and Influence People. (Dale Carnegie would be ashamed) Posted by WILLisms Texas is ground zero in the national higher education […]
By Thomas K. Lindsay When the national study, “Academic Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” was published last year, its findings were alarming. Of the national sample of students it […]
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 […]
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz A panel of faculty members and students at the University of Texas today recommended a host of measures, including mandatory freshman orientation and stepped-up advising, to […]
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 […]
Written by Reeve Hamilton photo by: Todd Wiseman Thomas Lindsay, who was recently selected to head the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education, is no stranger to controversy. […]
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 […]
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.” – […]
Texas has two middling public universities. It’s time they reward professors who can actually teach. By Wick Allison Jeff Sandefer courtesy photo The chancellor at Texas A&M is forced to […]
By Mary Lee Grant The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and medical school courses. […]
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 […]
Inefficient professors are the targets in Gov. Rick Perry‘s plan to reform higher education By Katherine Mangan Austin, Tex. Depending on whom you talk to in Texas these days, college […]
Reformers call for more teaching and less research By MELISSA LUDWIG Lazy professor, beware. Your time delivering droning lectures and writing overwrought articles for obscure journals draws nigh. A posse […]
David Guenthner, Senior Communications Director for TPPF explains how to achieve better quality and lower the costs in higher education. David Guenthner The goal of what we’re trying to do […]
Both believe and fundamentally say they care about the quality and accessibility of higher education. By Reeve Hamilton Randy Diehl, the dean of the University at Texas at Austin’s College […]
By Huma Munir Gov. Rick Perry has backed the Seven Breakthrough Solutions for Higher Education, but the plan from a conservative think tank could prove to be a breaking point […]
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” […]
Rick O’Donnell: The TT Interview By Reeve Hamilton Rick O’Donnell’s time as an adviser at the University of Texas System may have been brief, but his presence was felt more […]
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 […]
It’s time we rock the ivory tower It is time we rock the Ivory Tower…maybe long overdue. How do parents prepare for the high costs of college? It could be […]
By S.C. GWYNNE and GARY JACOBSON, The Dallas Morning News In 1985, a young Harvard Business School student from Abilene named Jeff Sandefer had an idea to make money from […]
By Reeve Hamilton For years, Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts to increase efficiency and productivity at public universities — largely by pressuring university system officials to carry out specific changes proposed […]
He looks forward to hearing from this new group and working with them in the areas of quality, access, accountability and transparency By Melissa Ludwig A group of more than […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Thursday marks a big set of meetings for the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. Among the items on the agenda are discussions differential tuition increases for four A&M colleges […]
By Casey Wooten, Reporter Forty of Houston‘s top young professionals were honored Thursday at the Houston Business Journal 40 Under 40 awards, held at the House of Blues. Delivering the […]
Reporter: Cody Lillich Email Address: cody.lillich@kbtx.com We’re hearing more reaction on the sudden retirement of Texas A&M System Chancellor Mike McKinney. State Senator Judith Zaffirini spoke to News 3 about […]
By Mary Tuma Full report expected in August Brenda Pejovich, UT Regent University of Texas System Regents received an update on the task force for “University Excellence and Productivity” led […]
by Reeve Hamilton photo by: Bob Daemmrich University of Texas System Chancellor Dr. Francisco Cigarroa (l), is congratulated by UT Regents Chairman Gene Powell (r) after the UT Regents gave […]
Tenure marked by boosted A&M System enrollment, Murano’s ouster as A&M president, TPPF reforms By Mary Lee Grant Texas newspapers today were discussing the legacy of Dr. Michael D. McKinney, […]
By Reeve Hamilton This afternoon, the University of Texas System released much-anticipated data on faculty “productivity” — noting, however, that the 821-page spreadsheet is in a raw draft form that […]
