In the past five hard years of higher education’s declining state support, rising tuition, defecting faculty and deteriorating facilities, college leaders have stuck together and let the Board of Regents coordinate their requests for funding from the Legislature.
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5/22/2013
Here’s an indication of how burdensome student loans have become: About one-third of millennials say they would have been better off working, instead of going to college and paying tuition.
5/22/2013
The college scholarship promotion is the latest piece in Tegile’s crusade to prevent schools from wasting limited budget dollars for storage performance they don’t need
to meet their application workloads.
5/22/2013
CoSoSys releases Mobile Application Management for iOS, the latest feature of the Mobile Device Management solution, a module in Endpoint Protector, which also includes Device Control, Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention and Portable Storage Encryption.
5/22/2013
OpenClass is a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the Learning Management System (LMS), helping educators and institutions deliver effective, interactive learning experiences to students everywhere. It is a fully cloud-based and open solution that is easy-to-use and completely free.
5/22/2013
Siemens' support is part of the company’s focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education and diversity initiatives that help drive its manufacturing revitalization efforts throughout the U.S.
5/22/2013
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany is building a $60 million solar manufacturing plant in an old Kodak building outside Rochester as it seeks to replicate its economic model in other cities.
5/22/2013
Construction on the 19,600-square-foot Oechsle Center for Global Education will likely begin this summer or fall, said Mary Wilford-Hunt, the college's facilities director.
5/22/2013
Legislators approved money to construct a new University of Texas System campus in Brownsville and a science building for the Edinburg campus on Tuesday as the merger of the Rio Grande Valley’s two universities progressed.
5/21/2013
The Texas House gave tentative approval to billions of dollars in bonds for campus construction projects on Monday. Senators already gave the go-ahead, but they will have a chance to revisit the proposal, because the House increased the total from about $2.4 billion to nearly $2.7 billion.
5/21/2013
The federal government makes 36 cents on every dollar it lends to students. The CBO says the government will make $51 billion on the student loans it issued this year — more than the annual profit of any Fortune 500 company, and about five times Google’s yearly earnings.
5/21/2013
The University of California system remains a popular destination for incoming freshmen – and getting into UCLA is now as hard as getting into Tufts and Cornell, at least for in-state students.
5/21/2013
Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill requiring Florida school districts to start paying for the classes that teenagers take at local colleges through their high schools' dual-enrollment programs. It's a change that some education leaders predict will result in fewer students participating in the program.
5/21/2013
While a plan to raise Utah public college presidents salaries by as much as 24 percent may sound high, it really just brings them in line with similar schools.
5/21/2013
A judge must determine whether Pennsylvania's governor has made the case that the NCAA's unprecedented penalties against the university make the worlds of college football and higher education less economically competitive.
