UTEP Seeks Success Beyond Graduation Rate
In the farthest corner of West Texas, nestled between the Franklin Mountains and the U.S.-Mexico border and hundreds of miles from any other public university in the state, the University of Texas at El Paso and its fortress-like buildings occupy one of the state’s most exotic campus settings.
The perspective of its president, Diana Natalicio, is similarly distinct. She eschews commonly accepted higher-education measures like graduation rates — which show that just one out of 10 entering UTEP freshmen graduate within four years — and seeks to redefine what determines a university’s success. She said UTEP, which has ...
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Hollis Morton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The students must have learned it is not what you know but who you know. All you need is a couple of corrupt judges in your pocket. http://hm21.wordpress.com
audrey fisher
Less we forget, TX passed legislation last year that demands that students sign a 4 year college plan. What is often overlooked is how heinous the original bill was written. Legislation called for punitive damages if a student failed to complete a degree in 4 years ( ie they would have to pay out of state tuition rates).
Simultaneously, GOP are hawking on-line private educational sites, such as WGU - that states that whether or not the courses completed are transferable to academic institutions are the responsibility of the student. With that in mind, it places the student in a lose-lose proposition, as WGU doesn't offer a recognizable degree and yet TX want's to improve graduation rates by placing more and higher barriers to complete an academic degree.
And lest we forget, TX legislator's in DC are arguing that Fed $$$ for higher education should be dismantled because bank's were cut out of profits. Another barrier!
While in the perfect world, students would have funding and wouldn't have to work various jobs to pay for their tuition / books / living expenses, etc. But we don't live there. We live in a world where tuition hikes are demanding that students either go deep into debt or not go to college at all.
In a do as I say, not as I do / did, the laudable goal of degree completion in 4 years is nothing more than a pipe-dream and those who are demanding it have been putting something illegal in their pipe!
Catrina Harper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oilfield. No degree, 80,000 a yr driving truck or working on a rig,
Dr. Carlos Restrepo
UTEP has embarked in an aggressive program of facilities expansion (you must have facilities to carry on educational programs) given its limited resources that is exemplary (see my HD video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4fDDzrRL0w). Now UTEP must embark on an academic modernization program to teach the skills that the new global economic realities demands by streamlining programs in manufacturing robotic engineering, a true global business education with emphasis on Global Marketing, Digital Media Marketing, and Health Care field (the new Health Sciences College of Nursing building depicted in the video is a state of the art facility) among others. There must be a an equally ambitious program of faculty modernization by attracting teaching faculty with up to date private sector experience which coupled with distance learning programs can improve graduation rates. The reality is that an often ignored cause of low graduation rates among colleges and universities today is the fact that students find antiquated and laborious degree programs with little or no relevance to the educational requirements of today's dynamic and evolving global economy.
V Marshall
There have been many studies comparing graduation in 4 years with loans and graduation in 6 years by taking time off to pay as you go. All have concluded that graduating sooner is in the long run more cost effective. Of course those are averages. If your degree is journalism or Early Childhood Ed you probably ARE better off paying as you go. UTEP has one of the highest percentages of student population on Pell grants not only in the state, but in the entire nation. If you are going to school on the earnings of others, the least you can do is to take it seriously, take a full load, and graduate on time so that you too can contribute taxes to the next wave of students who need financial assistance.
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President Barack Obama should close the US Dept of education, they are an impediment to the education system of this United States. Their well intended legislation do not work because the bureaucracy and the Unions. The system is corrupt by the unions and the politicians that accept their money to finance their campaigns. Obama will free 10 states from the strict requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate their students.
The first 10 states to receive the waivers are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Every state in the Union should claim their independence from the rules of the federal government; education is the responsibility of the parent's and the community. The families are the ones that have the best interest on the education of their children. During the last 40 years we witness the destruction of our education system by the implementation of the bilingual education and the no child left behind. We had produce two generations of uneducated people and the downfall of our human capital. Generations that have become this new class “The welfare class”
The solution to this education crisis is not money, what we need to do is simple. Close the US Dept. Of Education. The States should organize a new system base in responsibility. Every school in the states should have a base curriculum for grade level, that the State require for the maintenance of licensing the school operation. Each school should be run independent and the responsibility for performance should rest on the principle, the teachers and a commite form by the student's parents and the taxpayers of the community.
Fellow Americans this crisis on our education was created by our government, they take away the rights of parents and teachers to discipline, to teach our children morality, respect for each other, peoples rights, responsibility and work ethics to work hard to be the best they can be and be supportive and encourage good behavior, manners and morality and last but not least our American values and patriotism.
The Original goal of the No Child left behind is, getting children to grade level in reading and math, by 2014 but too many schools feel they are labeled as "failures." Under No Child Left Behind, schools that don't meet requirements for two years or longer, are facing increasingly tough consequences, including busing children to higher-performing schools, offering tutoring and replacing staff.
As the deadline approaches, more schools are failing, because some states have high numbers of immigrant and low-income children and also because the law requires states to raise the bar each year for how many children must pass the test.
The Education Secretary Arne Duncan said states without a waiver will be held to the standards of No Child Left Behind because "it's the law of the land.". This is a lie because congress do not have the power to establish a Department of Education mush less grant it jurisdiction to encourage the education of the people of the sovereign states of this union.
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These legal and constitutional principles bound the Congress of 1791 and continue to bind Congress today. This is the nature of law and legal compacts and therefore the nature of the Supreme Law of the Land and the Constitution.
The Constitution, of course, explicitly binds Congress by enumerating which congressional powers are delegated and how they are to be lawfully employed. As a binding compact, any powers exercised by the federal government must be in accordance with that compact. Constitutionally, the federal government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. Power not delegated to the federal government by the written Constitution is reserved to the states or to the people respectively.10
Education is not found among the enumerated objects of the Constitution. Article I does not authorize Congress to establish a Department of Education much less grant it jurisdiction to encourage the education of the people in the several states. Furthermore, federal involvement in education is not an appropriate means plainly adapted to carry out an object contemplated by an enumerated power. Congress may, however, maintain voluntary educational facilities and academies if those means are plainly adopted to raising a military and the like.11
Though Congress is prohibited from entangling itself with the education of the people in the several states, it may concern itself with those objects enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. This clause grants Congress exclusive legislative authority over the District of Columbia. With respect to the District of Columbia, Congress has legislative authority pro-tanto. It may act as a State legislature, but may not abridge any constitutionally retained right of the people over education.
As far as congressional authority over Federal Territories and property is concerned, the Constitution enumerates certain powers in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. This Clause grants Congress power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territories or other property belonging to the United States. This proprietary function differs from the legislative function over the District of Columbia though both constitute grants of power.12
The extent, however, of congressional power with respect to education is limited to the promotion of science and arts and is provided for by Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. The means Congress may employ in the promotion of these enumerated objects is also noted. Congress may only promote these objects "by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoverys." Thus both the object and the means are clearly enumerated and explicitly limited.13 If Congress exercised any other power inconsistent with these objects in respect to education, it would be pernicious both to the states and the people, and contrary to the Constitution as a legal compact and the Supreme Law of the Land.
constitutional limitations which clearly precluded the assertion of federal jurisdiction over education.
A proper regard for these limitations requires withdrawal of federal jurisdiction over education and the abolition of the Federal Department of Education and its functions. Such a measure would:
1. Strengthen the people in the exercise of their preexisting inalienable right and power over education acknowledged by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. This includes education, both publicly and privately, directly and indirectly;
2. Strengthen the federal government by redirecting its time, energy and resources toward those objects for which it bears express constitutional responsibility;
3. Strengthen the national economy by acknowledging the constitutional limitations on the purpose to which the federal treasury may be directed and by reducing federal deficits;
4. Strengthen education by encouraging educational diversity and by opposing continued expansion and centralization of educational policy.
Continued federal intervention into education, however, would only disparage historically acknowledged inalienable rights, and would further distort the constitutionally enumerated limitations on the Congress of the United States. These limitations are compelling and deserve further attention.
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Strengthen the federal government by redirecting its time, energy and resources toward those objects for which it bears express constitutional responsibility. Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. Power not delegated to the federal government by the written Constitution is reserved to the states or to the people respectively.