Next year, U.S. News & World Report will issue its first of annual review of teacher preparation programs at universities nationwide. Texas universities, though, are not interested in participating.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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For Some University Presidents, It Pays to Be Private
David Leebron of Rice University is the state’s highest-paid president of a private college, pulling down more than $1.5 million in 2009, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Five other private college or university presidents in Texas made more than $800,000.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson maps the growth of poverty in Texas, Aguilar on the suicide of an illegal immigrant, Galbraith on the prospect of more rolling blackouts, Grissom on a prosecutor’s memory lapse, Hamilton on the prospect of public universities undergoing a sunset review, Murphy’s latest awesome redistricting interactive, Ramsey on a stumbling start to the 2012 election season, Root on Rick Perry’s latest populist tirade, M. Smith on the boom in for-profit teacher certification programs and Tan on the fight against cervical cancer in … Africa: The best of our best content from November 28 to December 2, 2011.
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Texplainer: Could Universities Be Put Under Sunset Review?
Could the state’s public universities go through the so-called sunset review process, forcing them to periodically defend their existence to state legislators?
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Updated: A Teenager’s Suicide Spurs DREAM Activists
In the wake of an illegal immigrant’s suicide last week, Texas groups urging passage of the DREAM Act are aiming to make sure what happened to Joaquin Luna doesn’t happen to other students.
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Legislator Urges UT and A&M to Keep the Rivalry Going
State Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, is not eager to see the generations-old rivalry between Texas A&M University and University of Texas end after this Thanksgiving’s game.
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TribLive: El Paso’s Freshmen on the 82nd Session
At our TribLive conversation at the University of Texas at El Paso on 11/16, state Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, and state Reps. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, and Dee Margo, R-El Paso, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other byproducts of the 82nd Session.
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Audio: Celia Soto, Freshman at Paul Quinn College
Celia Soto, a freshman at Paul Quinn College, talks about her college experience thus far and Paul Quinn’s president, Michael Sorrell.
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Saving a College With Persistence and Prose
Michael Sorrell took a pay cut to become president of Paul Quinn College during one of the rockiest patches in its 139-year history. Despite a lack of higher ed experience, he’s turning it around one student at a time.
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Weekend Insider: John Bradley, Michael Sorrell
In this episode of Weekend Insider, we introduce you to two influential Texans: John Bradley, the Williamson County District Attorney, and Michael Sorrell, the president of Paul Quinn College.