Hey, Texplainer: I hear Texas has a $10,000 degree. How can I get one?
Early this month, Texas A&M University-San Antonio President Maria Ferrier and Alamo Colleges Chancellor Bruce Leslie announced that they had devised a bachelor’s degree that costs roughly $9,700. Read More
Students are likely to experience tuition and fee increases over the course of five upcoming semesters, beginning next spring. Read More
Written by – Brian Gadd
ZANESVILLE — Jobs in connection with shale oil and gas development in the area already are starting to perk up in advance of Halliburton breaking ground in April on 178 acres in the EastPointe Business Park. Read More
By Kim Clark and Beth Braverman
(MONEY Magazine) — You knew it was bad, but now that your child is close or getting ready to go to college, you’re starting to get a truer picture of how bad. Read More
Written By Gabriela Guadalupe Fox News Latino
I am a Hispanic undergraduate student at Florida International University and when I graduate in 2014, I need a job.
The big question is where will I find one? Read More
College acceptance letters are rolling in. Now the hard part-figuring out where the kids can afford to go. WSJ’s Rachel Louise Ensign shares what’s key to navigating those utility-bill-like financial aid awards on Lunch Break. Read More
This is a follow up to an article we posted last year – great read.
Stanford doesn’t want me. I can say that because it’s a documented fact: I was once denied admission in writing. I took my last math class back in high school. Read More
By: Larry Kudlow – CNBC Anchor
No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the environmental left, and he remains on the wrong side of energy history. Read More
Most politicians in Texas spent February awaiting final word on the state’s redrawn political maps. Court delays pushed the state’s primary date from Super Tuesday — when Texas could have exercised some influence — to the end of May. Read More
by Kirk Siegler
Economists say many industries are looking up this year. But perhaps none has a better outlook than the energy sector. Read More
Speaking today on a SXSWEdu panel in Austin, officials from a few Texas community colleges and universities said that $10,000 bachelor’s degrees are available now — and more will be within the year.
Gov. Rick Perry famously called on the development of a $10,000 degree in his State of the State address in 2011. Read More
Cost. Affordability. Four-year graduation rates. These buzzwords continue to fly around in the state higher education debate. One group is looking to turn focus to another buzzword — excellence. Read More
The University of Texas System launched a new commercialization search portal as part of a broader effort to increase commercialization at its 15 institutions. Read More
In remarks to reporters this morning, API’s Vice President for Regulatory and Economic Policy Kyle Isakower said a wave of possible new federal rules on shale oil and natural gas development could threaten its expansion and the increased jobs and revenue it promises to generate: Read More
By Liz Farmer
The Office of Student Financial Services must use current tuition rates to determine financial aid because the Board of Regents has yet to set a date for its 2012-2014 tuition setting meeting. Read More
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday sounded an unusually optimistic note after meeting with President Barack Obama, saying they came away feeling they could find common ground on energy and jobs policies. Read More
By Kaustuv Basu
The phrase “post-tenure review” can mean different things to different people.
Talk of “post-tenure review” is in circulation at the University of Texas System after the Board of Regents approved tougher rules earlier this month – requiring tenured faculty members in the system to be evaluated annually and receive rankings from “exceeds expectation” to “unsatisfactory.” Read More
By VIMAL PATEL vimal.patel@theeagle.com
Standing for the first time before Texas A&M University’s student senate since he served as student body president in 1972, A&M System Chancellor John Sharp tried to quell campus-wide unease Wednesday night regarding his plans to possibly outsource dining services and elements of facilities services. Read More
By: Julie Fisher
ttu.eduTexas Tech University’s System Board of Regents’ finance committee has approved a tuition hike for the coming fall semester. Read More
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