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By Jeff Sandefer – Even federal largesse can’t prop up a doomed business model forever -

‘Race to the Top” federal handouts, increasing Pell Grants, and executive-branch decrees won’t lower college tuition or improve the quality of university degrees Read More

UT’s Powers Responds to Obama’s Affordability Push – by Reeve Hamilton.

January 30, 2012

Accountability, Affordability

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University of Texas at Austin President, William Powers – Dec. 14, 2011

By Reeve Hamilton.

In a Friday morning speech at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, President Obama addressed college affordability and higher education reforms, which have been hot topics in Texas throughout the last year. Read More