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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
Perry’s Office Criticizes UT Administration’s Defense of Status Quo
By William Lutz Gov. Rick Perry’s communications director Mark Miner blasted University of Texas administrators for issuing a report attacking proposals to reform higher education. The university used personnel on the College of Liberal Arts payroll to produce a report critical of ideas put forward by the Texas Public Policy Foundation and other higher education … Continue reading
Texas – Education Cuts, Population and Jobs Growth
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 $15 billion and $27 billion for the next two years. The population has surged by about 3.9 million since 2000, giving the state four new … Continue reading
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 and help explain why our public colleges have become so expensive. The data reveals that a sizable percentage of the teaching staff at our premier … Continue reading
Controversial UT Regent Hopes to “Push a Reset Button”
By Reeve Hamilton Enlarge photo by: Bob Daemmrich Regent Alex M. Cranberg at the University of Texas Board of Regents meeting on May 12, 2011. On Feb. 12, Gene Powell, the chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents, sent a note to Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the UT System, about the newest … Continue reading
UT President Powers on Defensive – “Impossible to Innovate From the Top-down.”
Powers’ most direct effort to discredit reform efforts by Governor and Regents By Tim Taliaferro UT president Bill Powers offered a measured but defiant defense of the University as a teaching and reseach institution, as well as its direction under his leadership, in a major speech before the campus community today. It was Powers’ most … Continue reading
Faculty Performance Disputed, Powers Struggles to Defend UT Values
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 faculty performance last month. Powers addressed the issue in a column which the Austin American-Statesman and The Dallas Morning News published and which he distributed … Continue reading
Zaffirini Ratchets Up UT Controversy Wasting Taxpayers Dollars.
A deep review of regent activities could continue for 6 years. By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz No one expected institutions of higher learning in Texas and their students to emerge unscarred from the legislative session, and they did not. The number of students receiving state financial aid grants will decline by tens of thousands during the … Continue reading
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 kind of distraction people defending the unsustainable status quo in Texas higher education are forced to engage in. The article discusses accountability efforts elsewhere (Oklahoma … Continue reading
Judith Zaffirini Vows to Micromanage UT Regents for the Next 6 Years
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, said today that public university boards of regents merit close watch for up to six years. Zaffirini chairs the Senate Higher Education Committee and, along with Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, the recently established Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency. The joint panel … Continue reading
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 regents. The regents were scheduled Thursday to meet for the first time since chancellor Mike McKinney announced his retirement earlier this month. Emails and some … Continue reading
The Regents Should Proceed in Resolving the Current Controversy
Beginning with Answers to Their Questions. By Ronald L. Trowbridge The debate on higher education reform has become a firestorm. The reason for the controversy is that, as with any debate, valid arguments exist on both sides. How, then, should the issue be resolved? The first consideration%3A Is there in fact a problem with the … Continue reading
Zaffirini Attacks UT Regent Alex Cranberg for “Facilitating Informed Decision-Making
By Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribube After a public display of harmony last week, confusion and controversy continues to surround the University of Texas System Board of Regents. To some, a recent request made by regent Alex Cranberg amounts to the kind of micromanaging recently critized by the system’s chancellor, but Cranberg and others insist it … Continue reading
Chairman Powell of UT System Regents – Moving Forward
Now that Chancellor Cigarroa is on board with Powell’s vision, Regents can focus on educational accountability and productivity. Austin, TX Gene Powell has had a few trying months. First, the formation of two task forces, one on excellence and productivity and the other on blended and online learning were established to give the Regents information … Continue reading
UT Chancellor Cigarroa Noted that Blended and Online Learning Are Critical to Success.
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 Cigarroa a vote of confidence on May 12, 2011. At a meeting of the University of Texas System Board of Regents in Austin Thursday, UT … Continue reading
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