mars 2016

Submitted by Tim Goral. Bernie Sanders’s pitch of free tuition at public universities has wowed young voters, but otherwise it’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Election 2016: It can’t get respect. Hillary Clinton disses the notion (“I’m not in favor of making college free for Donald Trump’s kids.”), arguing instead for targeted measures to eliminate student debt. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. A new documentary took the SXSW festival by storm in Austin, Texas titled: Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities. No film better exposes the coordinated assault on public higher education that is going on right now across the country. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. When endowment returns are way down, it’s not exactly prudent to spend the same percentage of the endowment for institutional operations each year, with the assumption that target investment payoff percentages will return. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. Eleven percent of qualifying faculty applied for the university's buyout program and the financial impact of those agreements is slated to remain unclear for years. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. Most Northeast Texas colleges experienced enrollment increases this spring compared with spring 2015, with the University of Texas at Tyler and its Longview center experiencing significant growth. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. The state spends hundreds of millions each year on cash subsidies for oil companies in Cook Inlet, more than the University of Alaska receives in its annual general fund appropriation. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. Education at Work (EAW) has launched an innovative three-way partnership with Arizona State University and worldwide online payments system company PayPal to help ASU students pay for college and gain valuable work experience. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. The landscape architecture and environmental planning student minoring in sustainable systems laughs that his friends certainly get an earful from him on ways they can be more environmentally friendly. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. Call it the stubborn gray cloud around a bright silver lining: At a time when the graduation rate of the nation’s public universities has improved significantly, according to a new report, the gap between white students who earn bachelor’s degrees and African Americans who don’t has failed to budge—and in some cases has gotten worse. More...

Submitted by Tim Goral. In a special address to the West Virginia University community recently, I issued a call to action: We must reinvent education for our young people, on our campuses, throughout our state and beyond. More...