The latest higher education news from The Texas Tribune.
Lawmakers and health care advocates gathered today to kick off the state's first annual Minority Cancer Awareness Month, designated in the last legislative session to bring awareness to racial disparities in cancer survival. Full Story
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In fiscal 2011, more than $32 million of funding set aside for a key college loan program created by the state — more than one-third of the program’s total funding — never reached Texas students. Full Story
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A new funding model for public higher education in Texas is in the works. The latest proposal was revealed today at a committee meeting at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Full Story
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The former University of Texas president and the Houston Endowment's director of research and planning on why new measurements for educational success are necessary and the troubling education situation in Texas. Full Story
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Rural community colleges play pivotal roles in their communities but face unique financial challenges that demand creative solutions to keep the doors open. Full Story
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Texas State Technical College and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are developing a bold new outcomes-based funding model. But do they have the necessary data to make it work? Full Story
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John Sharp, the new Texas A&M University System chancellor, is out to privatize services at the main campus in College Station. Full Story
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At the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University campuses, the student body election seasons have been anything but ordinary. Full Story
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At a town hall meeting at Austin Community College on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talked about what the Obama administration is doing to keep higher ed affordable. Full Story
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After U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised Texas' in-state tuition policy for illegal immigrants, he and Gov. Rick Perry met to discuss a possible waiver for the No Child Left Behind Act. Full Story
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A report finds Texas colleges and universities rank near the top when it comes to awarding degrees to Latinos. Full Story
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The chancellor of the Texas Tech University system on the tier-one race, why the state should invest in higher education and former head football coach Mike Leach. Full Story
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Officials from a couple of Texas community colleges and universities told an audience in Austin that $10,000 bachelor's degrees are available now — and more will be within the year. Full Story
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UPDATED: The Texas Department of Public Safety today renewed a warning that cautions Texas students against traveling to Mexico. The break begins next week for most of the state’s schools. Full Story
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The president of Rice University on the declining reputation of higher education, the difference between public and private universities, and the future of academic research. Full Story
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At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of North Texas in Denton on 2/28, state Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, and state Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Lake Dallas, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other by-products of the 82nd Session. Full Story
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Sam Houston State University administrators credit a nationally recognized advising center for moving their graduation rates in the right direction. Full Story
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Texas Southern University has the state's lowest graduation rate, but TSU President John Rudley says that steps are being taken to put the university on the right track. Full Story
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Aaronson and Tan interactively map women's health program providers in Texas, Galbraith talks to the state's climatologist about (what else?) the drought, Grissom with the latest on violence in youth prisons, Hamilton on why UTEP's low four-year graduation rate may not matter, Murphy's interactive comparing graduation rates and more at public universities in Texas, Ramsey on the redistricting end game (we think), Ramshaw on the state health commissioner's attack on Planned Parenthood and Root on the closing of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's storied Austin bureau: The best of our best content from February 27 to March 2, 2012. Full Story
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The state's higher education reform debate may have cooled, but the discussion hasn't frozen. The Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education is meeting right now in Austin — and they say they're not giving up the fight. Full Story
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