A new study on Texas’ higher-education policy lays out the tough choices that state lawmakers are facing and throws some cold water on one of their prize programs: the initiative to create more tier-one universities.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Peer Support Program to Make Its Lone Star Debut
The Posse Foundation, which has been lauded by the MacArthur Foundation and President Obama, is preparing to make its first foray into Texas public schools this year.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson maps Medicaid patients’ access to pharmacies, Aguilar on Mexicans in exile, Batheja on an unlikely threat to a veteran lawmaker’s re-election, Galbraith and Murphy interactively track reservoir levels around the state, Grissom on the ringleaders who rule the state’s largest youth lockup, Hamilton on how much Texas professors are paid, Ramsey on who’s conservative, Ramshaw and Tan on the latest Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, Root on what Santorum’s exit means for the Texas primary, and parts 4 (by M. Smith) and 5 (by Tan and Dehn) of our series on school district closures: The best of our best content from April 9-13, 2012.
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Professors at Rice, UT-Dallas Among Top Earners at Texas Schools
The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled data on average salaries for professors on campuses across the country. How do Texas colleges and universities stack up?
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First Lady Recognizes A&M-Corpus Christi Administrator
The dean of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences was recognized today by first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden for the college’s commitment to veterans and military members.
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Updated: UT-Austin Bans Tobacco Campuswide
The University of Texas at Austin is kicking the smoking habit, announcing today that it will ban smoking on all university grounds. The new policy is meant to ensure that UT continues receiving cancer research funds.
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Report Stresses Raising College Graduation Rates for Latinos
In Texas, 34 percent of the state’s adult population has earned an associate degree or higher — but only 17 percent of Latino adults have such a degree. A new report from a national nonprofit group discusses why that gap needs to close.
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To Boost Efficiency, UT Turns to Business Leaders
University of Texas President Bill Powers is looking outside of academia for recommendations on improving the efficiency of his university, assembling a new task force of corporate executives to study its operations.
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More Changes May Be Ahead for TEXAS Grants
Officials gathered at a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board forum to begin a conversation about tweaking the state’s primary need-based financial aid program for college students.
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Energy
The Hot Seat: A Conversation with West Texas Lawmakers
At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, state Reps. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, and state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other by-products of the 82nd Session.
