Recession intensifies GenX discontent at work Nov 16, 2009
SPIN METER: Rankings unfair to US higher ed ... No, the topic isn't health care - it's higher education. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Missouri shows how schools pay a price for football success Nov 11, 2009
The report looks at how, amid budgets cuts throughout higher education, salaries for many head coaches have risen since USA TODAY salary surveys in 2006 and 2007 ... Darkening the picture are the troubled economy and budgetary pain it has brought Missouri and most all of higher education ... "It's just the economic times we're going through. "A few other legislators, I don't know if they were really upset, but (they were) just questioning, 'Why would you give the guy a raise when we're here... (USA Today -- Sports)
SPIN METER: Rankings unfair to US higher ed? Nov 4, 2009
SPIN METER: Rankings unfair to US higher ed ... SPIN METER: Rankings unfair to US higher ed ... No, the topic isn't health care - it's higher education. (Anchorage Daily News)
Merrill-Cazier Library to merge with USU Press Nov 3, 2009
In January, The Herald Journal reported that hundreds of e-mails poured in from across the country after both the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed published reports that USU may be forced to shutter its scholarly press ... The merger was first proposed over a year ago, Spooner said, but talks were suspended while the state budget for higher education at the state level got worked out. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Apollo Weakness for Phoenix Revenues Spurs Short Sellers With SEC's Probe Oct 31, 2009
Richard Chait, a professor of higher education at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has studied Sperlings university, said the school saves money everywhere by hiring part-time faculty, leasing real estate, and centralizing administration ... If Obama means what he says, that he wants everyone to have one year of college, how do you accomplish that without for-profit higher ed. (Bloomberg)
College enrollment hits record, mostly thanks to 2-year schools Oct 31, 2009
ALL-USA TEAMS: BEST VALUE COLLEGES: HIGHER ED BLOG ... That means more students are eligible to pursue higher education, but most of the growth is coming from students whose academic qualifications make them more likely to start at two-year school ... President has made community colleges the centerpiece of his goal for every American to have at least some higher education credential by 2020, and earlier this year proposed spending $12 billion over the next decade to help community colleges... (USA Today -- News)
Gerald Marzorati offers a somewhat weak defense of the new, new, new journalism Oct 24, 2009
Asked how to write fresh, timely stories for a less-often-published higher ed magazine when news changes constantly, Marzorati said, Those big stories keep coming back, so your story runs into the news anyway. If you have something fresh to say about any of those topics, that will be fine. (Harper's Magazine)
• Higher ed personnel to be cut, official says Sep 17, 2009
Higher ed personnel to be cut, official says By Ben BotkinTimes-News writer For Idaho colleges and universities, there's a short-term future that includes scenarios for potential 4 percent and 6 percent holdbacks in state funding for this fiscal year ... Edmunds said that other states fund higher education based on performance indicators, which needs to be looked at for Idaho. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
USU president announces furlough, department changes Sep 17, 2009
groupthink wrote on Sep 16, 2009 6:35 PM:" The previous furlough was to offset the budget defecit for the fiscal year that ended in June. (Furlough days were executed in March) The furloughs just announced address the budget cut projuected for the next biennium. There will probably be more a year from now because I believe the budget that was just announced for higher ed was for the next 2 years.Don't quote me but this is my understanding of it. ". orion wrote on Sep 16, 2009 7:12 PM:" Maybe... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
TBM Readers Respond: Save College As We Know It! Sep 12, 2009
Finally, nil293 brings up another worrying implication of the whole transition away from brick-and-mortar higher ed: I'm surprised that the author didn't address how college is about much more than just the classroom experience. For most kids, college is when you get away from your parents and hometown, meet new people, and see new places and learn how to care for yourself; in short a big step towards becoming an independent adult. (Slate)
Too early to see cuts' effects on higher ed in Georgia Aug 24, 2009
But experts who follow higher education regionally and nationally say such predictions are premature. "Unfortunately, it's one of those things that it's too early to tell," said Joe Marks, an education-budget analyst at the Southern Regional Education Board. (The Augusta Chronicle)
New GI Bill sending veterans to school this fall Aug 1, 2009
Get information on education programs that could help you increase your earning power. By Mary Altaffer, AP. (USA Today)
Keep library doors open Jul 31, 2009
Higher ed needs advocates. The 2009 Legislature dealt with our state s fiscal crisis in a way that sought to avoid lasting harm to public higher education ... Have we started down the path to a privatized funding model for our public higher education institutions. (Longview Daily News, WA)
O'Malley to slash 39 jobs, higher ed funds Jul 22, 2009
Martin O'Malley to slash 39 jobs, higher ed funding to close $700M budget gap in Maryland - Washington Business Journal ... Martin O'Malley to slash 39 jobs, higher ed funding to close $700M budget gap in Maryland ... Gov. Martin O Malley outlined plans Tuesday to cut $280 million from Maryland s current fiscal budget, moves that eliminate 39 filled state jobs and slash $40 million in funding for higher education. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
E.J. DIONNE JR.: Crisis in educating our nation Jul 19, 2009
Meeting the Obama Challenge: Bring All Higher Ed Assets to Bear ... Higher education is a case in point ... It was good to hear a president say that community colleges are "an undervalued asset in our country ... treated like the stepchild of the higher education system." He was also correct to emphasize how much upward mobility still depends on education, since "jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as jobs requiring no college experience.". (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
CSU fees could hit $5,000 to offset cuts Jul 10, 2009
Ad links Gilmore to cuts for higher ed. SACRAMENTO -- The election is still more than two months away, but Republican Assembly candidate Danny Gilmore already is being targeted in a television advertisement. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Legislators Wrap Up Session: Stimulus funds balance state budget woes Jun 28, 2009
We need to look at scores and look at blending services of common ed with higher ed and career tech ... Higher education received a 3 percent increase with an agreement not to raise fees or tuition. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Many losers from legislative session; Jindal one of the few winners Jun 27, 2009
"There were a lot of losers this year, healthcare, higher education, LSU was a big loser because of the way they handled their politics. It was just all wrong," he said. While lawmakers worked some key last minute deals to restore more than $114 million for higher education, DuBos says colleges and universities across the state will be looking at changes ... "All in all, higher (education) didn't do nearly as badly as they feared they would, but I think the handwriting is on the wall, that there... (WWLTV.com, LA)
Fed to mass transit: Drop dead Jun 22, 2009
He's been a reporter at Washington, D.C.-based Inside Higher Ed, and his work has appeared in a variety of national publications, including Scientific American and U.S. News and World Report. Related Stories. (Salon)
The Four-Year College Myth May 31, 2009
That makes me part of the problem with higher education today ... A while back, Gerald Chertavian, a successful businessman turned education reformer, posed that question to a gathering of 400 education officials and public-policy people at a New England Board of Higher Education summit ... Probably because the old path still dominates at name-brand private colleges, and they continue to be the prism through which so much of higher education is viewed. (Boston Globe)
Finding help to pay for college May 18, 2009
STUDENT LOANS: MOUNTING DEBT: HIGHER ED BLOG. How to pay for college is clearly on people's minds. (USA Today -- Money)
N.D. higher ed board seeking lower tuition increase May 13, 2009
LOADING May 13, 2009 - 04:00:28 CDT By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Writer North Dakota's Board of Higher Education is likely to ask its four-year colleges to limit fall tuition increases to 3 ... 5 percent and 4 percent, but the Board of Higher Education's approval would be required, the subcommittee's recommendation says ... Backes, Duaine Espegard and Richie Smith, who is chairman of the Board of Higher Education, make up the board's finance subcommittee. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Socialism, College Style (Part II) May 12, 2009
Anyway, I loved the article it's a brilliant analogy, I would love to see a instructors face if this was put to him/her on the first day of classes and a so called "higher ed" campus. After working my tushie off for a 3. (Townhall.com)
Facebook and grades: The debate continues May 8, 2009
Get information on education programs that could help you increase your earning power. By Dan Kitwood, Getty Images. (USA Today)
Obama College Loan Plan Is Controversial May 5, 2009
Agreed on the misplaced effort - fix high school issues first - without decent basic skills, effective higher ed is a waste of time. Furthermore, higher education is not for everyone and there are plenty of important skills that are best serviced by other educational institutions that are not "college or university". (CBS News)
State Capitol Briefs, Tuesday, April 28 Apr 30, 2009
House leaders told members to expect votes on early Wednesday on education, Medicaid, mental health, higher education, developmental disabilities, environment, labor and workforce development and health and human services amendments. HOUSE REJECTS D.C. OFFICE CUT House members voted 49-107 to reject a Republican amendment to eliminate a $400,000 line item for Gov. Deval Patrick's Washington D.C. office. (Arlington Advocate, MA)
No comments posted. Apr 19, 2009
Biden wants to make higher ed more affordable ... ST. LOUIS (AP) Vice President Joe Biden pledged Friday to close gaps between family incomes and college costs to make higher education a reality for more Americans. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Biden wants to make higher ed more affordable Apr 19, 2009
ST. LOUIS (AP) Vice President Joe Biden pledged Friday to close gaps between family incomes and college costs to make higher education a reality for more Americans. Biden told a town hall-style meeting in St. Louis that he'll ask the Treasury Department to look into how to make family college-savings plans more effective and reliable. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
LETTER: Young employee unable to 'laugh this off' Apr 15, 2009
out-there wrote on Apr 11, 2009 9:32 PM:" Higher Education does not give you advantage over Experience!There are a lot of college grads working in feilds that had nothing to do with what they went to school for.They just made the higher Ed systems richer.Hands on Experience out does book learned every time most things can not be learned from a book.Management Degree's from college teach it backwards and don't pay attentionto the end results.People that get books published do not always Know what... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Students rally on Beacon Hill against higher ed cuts Apr 10, 2009
More than 100 students from state and community colleges rallied on Beacon Hill on Wednesday to keep lawmakers from further cutting higher education funding. We ve been cutting higher education for decades, said Alex Kulenovic, a UMass-Boston student trustee and a founder of the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) ... We re here to say we need to change the paradigm of higher education. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)
Top Senate Democrat says higher ed facing $500 million in cuts Mar 27, 2009
Top Senate Democrat says higher ed facing 500 million in cuts ... OLYMPIA, Washington's higher education system will face severe cuts of almost 500 million under the Senate's proposed budget, the Senate's top Democrat said Thursday ... In her no-new-taxes budget proposal in December, Gov. Chris Gregoire suggested about 342 million in cuts to higher education. (Longview Daily News, WA)
N.D. higher ed budget has salary freeze for some Feb 25, 2009
After lawmakers adjourned, the Board of Higher Education voted to take money from other board projects to make up the difference ... The Legislature's decision two years ago to remove $200,000 from the state university system's office budget was meant to convey lawmakers' unhappiness with the Board of Higher Education's treatment of former chancellor Robert Potts ... The Board of Higher Education's president, Richie Smith, said the freeze would save $138,000 in salary expenses. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Free higher ed not worth it Feb 23, 2009
RE: Dan Clawson's Feb. 18 letter in response to Jack Wilson's Feb 12 op-ed piece, The writer suggests we should make all higher education "free." I feel compelled to point out to the good professor it is impossible to make something with identifiable costs "free." "Free" higher education for all would come at the expense of other worthy societal objectives. I won't even get into the discussion of whether paying for all residents to go to college for four years is money well spent. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Private Jessica says President is misusing her 'heroism' Feb 22, 2009
prefer completion of two years of higher education ... kaplan division : kaplan higher ed campuses job level. (Yahoo News -- Jessica Lynch)
N.D. Senate approves higher ed budget Feb 20, 2009
LOADING Feb 20, 2009 - 04:05:11 CST By DAVE KOLPACKAssociated Press Writer The North Dakota Senate has approved a nearly $780 million higher education budget that sets limits on tuition, increases research spending and authorizes new building projects ... Randy Christmann, R-Hazen, said it is the best higher ed budget bill in several years. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Paying for College Feb 14, 2009
The New Battle over Financial Aid - Class Is in Session - TIME. The New Battle over Financial Aid. (Time.com)
A Fistful of Dollars: Obama and the Department of Education Feb 10, 2009
(Never mind that it's not a specified role of the federal government to reconstruct local schools or to "weatherize" institutions of higher ed.). Although it may be disconcerting, the spending spree of New York City's politicians shouldn't come as a surprise. (Human Events Online)
Octuplets and all children deserve better Feb 8, 2009
5 billion Higher Ed Construction (Eliminated) $ 100 million FSA modernization $50 million CSERES Research $65 million Watershed Rehab $30 million SD Salaries $100 million Distance Learning $98 million School Nutrition $50 million aquaculture $2 billion broadband $1 billion Head Start/Early Start $5. 8 billion Health Prevention Activity. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
