Reich, who is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley, will deliver the opening plenary on July 28 and address the key drivers of change that make higher education more important than ever to our economy and society: globalization, technology, and demographics.
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4/18/2013
House Concurrent Resolution 3047 failed by a narrow 24-23 vote. The resolution proposed creating a new full-time three-person commission to oversee the state’s 11 public schools, rather than the current board that has eight part-time members.
4/18/2013
The budget committee recommended that the athletic department alone should pay the fee, and not the entire university, as the university's trustees have decided.
4/18/2013
Gov. John Kitzhaber has put forth a budget that earmarks $428 million for Oregon’s 17 community colleges for the 2013-15 biennium. Those of us associated with the state’s community colleges have appreciated the positive direction of this budget — up from $395 million in the 2011-13 biennium.
4/4/2013
As the Senate worked to consider as many bills as possible before the official crossover day today, two actions on the floor saw some major debate. The first, a bill studying a change to the funding model for higher education facilities was discussed and then put to a vote. The second, an amendment proposed for a second time on the floor that had already failed in committee.
4/1/2013
Done right, bank card partnerships are a win-win. For students and families, the cards are a simple way to make sure that cash is available when needed. Schools continue to earn revenue from banks and, in some cases, receive incentives to outsource various financial and administrative functions, saving operating costs. But, as the saying goes, with any contract, the devil can be in the details.
3/28/2013
The private Baptist college in Pineville typically does not disclose its financial records, but an overview can be found on the 990 forms the school — as a tax-exempt organization — is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service.
3/21/2013
The University of Michigan Health System is naming its cardiovascular center after a couple who gifted $50 million to the center during the past six years.
3/21/2013
With Oregon’s leading universities pulling together, there’s reason for optimism about the state economy in 2013, University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson said Wednesday during his keynote discussion at the 2013 Economic Forecast at the Hilton Eugene & Conference Center.
3/21/2013
Over the past six years, enrollment at Lone Star College has increased by 89 percent. Unfortunately the faculty has only increased by 11 percent, which has made the student-to-faculty ratio shift from 17:1 in 2006 to 29:1 in 2012. Furthermore, between 2006 and 2012, spending directly related to student instruction decreased from 27 percent of total spending to 16 percent.
3/14/2013
Facing flat funding, SUNY and CUNY activists, students, and union leaders are fighting for more money.
3/7/2013
When Nancy Cantor steps down as Syracuse University chancellor next year, she will leave her successor a transformed and expanded campus.
3/6/2013
Boosting the revenue of university dining programs usually boils down to finding ways to attract more customers, but the methods, as these examples show, can be as varied as the menus at a mall food court.
2/20/2013
A change in Lee County's sales tax distribution method would be more agreeable to at least one Lee County Commissioner as long as a portion of the funds support Central Carolina Community College (N.C.).
2/18/2013
The Nevada System of Higher Education's chancellor found himself Friday inside a hornet's nest of angry legislators who expressed disgust over the lack of state funds their local colleges and universities would receive under a new formula.
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