As parents and students struggle to keep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdens of debt, universities are being challenged to justify the ballooning athletic fees they tack on to the bill. Read More
3M and the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering launch a new 40-foot trailer aimed to inspire science and engineering careers for Texas youth. Read More
Fujitsu Laboratories of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the joint development of a personalized learning platform that enhances the effectiveness of online learning. Read More
jarmendariz@themonitor.com Building a new public university that encompasses the Rio Grande Valley has become the law of the land. Read More
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has vetoed a bill from the senate that would weaken the powers of boards of regents across the state. Read More
Susan Adams, Forbes Staff A new national study has found that the more money parents pay for their kids’ college educations, the worse their kids tend to perform, at least when it comes to grades. Read More
Pile it on. It’s easy hide behind buzz words. Regent Hall is doing a fine job. He is performing his sworn duty with honesty, integrity and honor. Regents Hicks and Stillman are continuing poor form and are tarnishing the honor of the regents by continuing the controversy. It is time to let justice prevail. If there is an impropriety by requests, let there be hearings. If not, let regent Hall do his job. Read More
For higher education followers, one of the great lingering mysteries of the 83rd session is the fate of a special committee that was formed to look into governance issues at the University of Texas System. Read More
UT Austin to Expand Blended Learning Offerings to Improve Student Success and First-Year Experience Read More
Here you have it. The words straight from The Chairman; Gene Powell. I an excellent interview by Jake Silverstein of the Texas Monthly the Chairman expressed his thoughts on Higher education, the UT controversy, and how MOOCS are changing the face of America. A good read without the usual biased negative media slant on the regents.
Regents have offered high level of support, By Red McCombs Read More
Serving as the student regent on the University of Texas System Board of Regents offers me a unique perspective. Read More
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz – American-Statesman Staff
The chief financial officer of the University of Texas and a member of its governing board have reached a truce, at least for now, concerning the latter’s access to records entrusted to the former. Read More
By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan
As the attorney general investigates the University of Texas Law School Foundation, legislators and former Foundation trustees are continuing to hammer out the fine line between the University and the private institutions that support the 40 Acres. Read More
By Megan Strickland, Alexa Ura of Daily Texan
Recent public battles over lack of oversight in the University of Texas Law Foundation threaten to bring substantial changes to a complex mechanism of private fundraising developed over several decades that has successfully raised billions of dollars alongside internal fundraising efforts. Read More
The University of Texas Board of Regents has been getting more than its fair share of press lately, but often for the wrong reasons. Read More
by Reeve Hamilton of texas tribune
On Thursday night, the University of Texas at Austin opened four free online courses for open registration. By Monday morning, total enrollment stood at 14,000 and counting. Read More
The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System I believe, seek a positive direction in the current controversy before the reputation of Texas is sullied by the ongoing smear campaign against them and Gov. Perry. Read More
Teens from 9 cities in the United States, India and the United Kingdom give a thundering answer in a global business plan competition that culminated The Indus Entrepreneurs`TiE Young Entrepreneurs program (TyE) in Raleigh, NC on April 30th at Cisco Systems and NC State University. Read More
Let’s take a temperate step back from the “shooting war” between the University of Texas regents and the president of UT-Austin. Read More
Here’s an academic question – or more precisely, a story about academics at the University of Texas at Austin: What’s the difference between trying to influence others’ views and “influence peddling”? Read More
Lawmakers, Observers React to Tense UT System Meeting by Reeve Hamilton of Texas Tribune
Longtime employees of the University of Texas System said they could not recall a split vote on the board of regents, which has traditionally settled differences behind closed doors and presented a unified front. That changed on Wednesday, catching higher education observers and even some lawmakers off guard. Read More
Just in time to celebrate Open Education Week, here comes a new initiative, the School of Open, a learning environment focused on increasing our understanding of “openness” and the benefits it brings to creativity and education in the digital age.
Developed by the collaborative education platform Peer to Peer University (P2PU) with organizational support from Creative Commons, the School of Open aims to spread understanding of the power of this brave new world through free online classes.
We hear about it all the time: Universal access to research, education and culture—all good things, without a doubt—made possible by things like open source software, open educational resources and the like.
But what are these various communities and what do they mean? How can we all learn more and get involved? Read More
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz American-Statesman Staff
In the latest sign of tension between the University of Texas and its governing board, President Bill Powers and other campus officials have been told to refrain from deleting emails on computers and other electronic devices. Read More
by Peggy Fikac
UT Law Foundation prez: ‘We were wrong, and we’ve stopped it’.
The president of the University of Texas Law School Foundation — taken to task by a state lawmaker over millions of dollars in forgivable loans given to attract faculty — said flatly Tuesday that the action was wrong and won’t happen again. Read More
Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s best colleges, according to a new analysis of every high school student who took the SAT in a recent year. Read More
The chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents on Friday released a statement defending his colleagues, some of whom were accused by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst of trying to micromanage embattled UT President William Powers.
Gene Powell, chairman of the UT board of regents
Since Monday, when Dewhurst grew emotional while defending Powers and accused regents of “character assassination” against Powers and his family in the Senate, Chairman Gene Powell has spoken with him several times, the statement said. Read More
By TODD J. GILLMAN Washington Bureau
tgillman@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON — Gov. Rick Perry did little Friday to tamp down suspicions that he’d like to engineer the ouster of Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin. Read More
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ University of Texas System regents have ordered their schools to offer students a four-year fixed-rate tuition option by fall 2014. Read More
by Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribure The relationship between the University of Texas School of Law and an affiliated foundation, which drew headlines over a forgivable loan program, will be again under the microscope this week when the University of Texas System’s Board of Regents meets.
Guaranteed tuition plans and tuition freezes are also on the agenda for the regents’ two-day meeting, which they will convene Wednesday. Read More
There could be trouble for Powers in Sunday’s meeting. The tension is rising. Is this the last straw in a string of cover ups? You decide. Read the article by Kirk Bohls, Ralph K.M. Haurwitz and Randy Riggs of the American-Statesman Staff.
A prominent state senator is questioning the need for a rare Sunday meeting of the University of Texas’ governing board — a meeting prompted by the disclosure that Longhorns assistant football coach Major Applewhite was disciplined in 2009 for an inappropriate relationship with a student.
The matter was handled “swiftly and appropriately” at the time by administrators at the Austin flagship, Sen. Judith Zaffirini told the American-Statesman on Saturday. Read More
by Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa
Thursday, December 6, was a historic day for The University of Texas System. The Board of Regents granted me the authority to work with the Texas Legislature to create a new university in the Rio Grande Valley. Read More
Funding for higher education at UT-Austin makes up almost 13 percent of the state’s budget, and going into the 2013 legislative session UT President William Powers Jr. and Gov. Rick Perry are each expected to be involved in discussions that will influence funding for the next two years. Read More
By David Mildenberg -The University of Texas System plans to put up $5 million to join the EdX online venture, Read More
DURHAM — University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston on Thursday laid out a plan to try to convince the Legislature to restore the $38 million cut from the institution’s budget. Read More
Indiana University officials unveiled their latest response to a growing tuition backlash: A tuition freeze for upperclassmen on track to graduate on time. Read More
Article by: JENNA ROSS, Star Tribune
The University of Minnesota is offering lawmakers a trade: more state funding for a tuition freeze for undergraduates. Read More
In 2011, during his first regular session, state Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, filed a bill to repeal the state’s decade-old law allowing some undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates to attend public universities in Texas. Read More
The Huffington Post | By Tyler Kingkade
Texas Gov. Rick Perry doesn’t believe public colleges should be able increase students tuition each year.
At the Texas Tribune festival, a three-day public policy forum in Austin, Perry said students who go to state universities should have the same tuition for their senior year as they do when they enter as freshmen. According to reports, Perry seemed intent to push for a tuition freeze in the next legislative session. Read More
by Megan McArdle
Mythomania about college has turned getting a degree into an American neurosis. It’s sending parents to the poorhouse and saddling students with a backpack full of debt that doesn’t even guarantee a good job in the end. With college debt making national headlines, Megan McArdle asks, is college a bum deal?
Why are we spending so much money on college? Read More
by Reeve Hamilton of texas tribune
In late August of 2011, both Brian McCall, chancellor of the Texas State University System, and Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the University of Texas System, laid out new visions for their systems.
University of Texas System Regents Thursday approved a plan under which presidents and other top officials at its 15 campuses could earn pay bonuses if graduation rates improve or donations increase. Read More
By Jon Marcus Who’s boss? US governing bodies flex their muscles
Virginia president keeps her job, but once-inert boards are stirring nationwide. Read More
Edx, founded by Harvard and MIT, will host two not-for-credit UC Berkeley courses this fall.
UC Berkeley announced Tuesday that it is joining the new online education website founded by Harvard and MIT that offers free, not-for-credit courses to a worldwide audience. The addition of UC Berkeley will give edX its first expansion into a prestigious public university and a foothold on the West Coast away from its Cambridge, Mass., base, officials said. Read More
An advocate for California taxpayers says the state’s university system is trying to scare voters into passing tax hikes. Meanwhile, salaries of higher-ups within the system continue to rise. Read More
