The Texas Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill setting new limits on the powers of university regents to fire campus presidents and requiring regents to under undergo ethics training.
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5/14/2013
A Pew Research Center study found that almost seven out of every ten Hispanic high school graduates from the class of 2012 enrolled in college last fall. That's two percentage points higher than the rate for Whites and six percentage points higher than Blacks.
5/14/2013
California's three college systems would receive more money from the state each year through 2016-17—and would have to freeze tuition—under Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal.
5/14/2013
Voters rejected a $500 million bond package for the Lone Star College System that would have paid for more classrooms and technology upgrades. Why did the bond fail and what does it mean for the college?
5/14/2013
A private college in northwest Georgia is suing Tennessee's higher education commission in a dispute over billboard advertising.
5/14/2013
One in four Indiana college students needs remedial help when he gets there. Education officials are working on guidelines to spot those students while they're still in high school.
5/14/2013
On Wednesday the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will launch Compare College Texas, an attempt to organize confusing data so future students can weigh their choices.
5/14/2013
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced plans this morning to retire from the university. He plans to remain in the job until his replacement is found by the university’s board of visitors.
5/14/2013
In an attempt to encourage college completion, Strayer University announced a plan to reduce tuition, but only to students who are actively working toward a degree.
5/13/2013
A bill signed into law last week allowing veterans greater access to a more-affordable college education will keep Vincennes University among the top schools for military and former military personnel.
5/13/2013
Studies show that women are more likely than men to go to college, and often perform better once there. Yet despite women's educational gains, a new report suggests that colleges are not doing enough for them -- at least not at the community college level.
5/13/2013
The state of Texas funded 22 colleges to establish summer bridge programs to help underprepared students get a good start at college. The summer bridge effort began in 2007, and a study to evaluate the program at eight of the schools followed in 2012.
5/13/2013
Lawmakers appear unlikely to approve a measure this legislative session that would allow Missouri voters to decide in the fall whether to OK $600 million for construction projects for higher education — including $44.8 million for a new life and sciences center at Missouri State University.
5/13/2013
Campus bookstores report feeling an economic pinch, which they attribute to some of the same market pressures that have caused independent booksellers across the nation to struggle in recent years.
5/13/2013
Goshen College from now on will purchase all its electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, college leaders announced Monday.
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