Texas A&M University faculty are unhappy with a recent report on faculty productivity written by Rick O’Donnell, a former special adviser to the University of Texas Board of Regents.
The report, released last month, splits instructors into groups according to labels like “dodgers” and “sherpas,” based on the credit hours More…
The president of Prairie View A&M, George C. Wright, has started teaching classes himself, and is getting his other top administrators to do the same, in an innovative effort to offset the 15 percent budget cuts at this historically African American university.
Wright, a historian and the author of, among More…
D magazine’s publisher Wick Allison brought the debate over Texas higher education reform to his magazine’s pages this month, supporting the “seven breakthrough solutions” backed by Jeff Sandefer and the Texas Public Policy Foundation More…, and taking Texas’ public universities to task for their recent performance.
Texas Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Parredes said Tuesday that the state is mostly on track with to match other states in access to higher education, but he said that many reforms still remain. It is time, he said, to “reinvent higher education.” More…
Several professors spoke out against political interference at Texas A&M University at a Board of Regents meeting on Friday, the first meeting overseen by new interim chancellor Jay Kimbrough.
Kathryn Bell McKenzie, an associate professor of educational development, asked the board pointed questions about the influence of the Texas Public More…
Rick O’Donnell, the controversial former adviser to the University of Texas System Board of Regents, has released a study on faculty productivity, splitting professors at the University of Texas and Texas A&M into five groups and finding most are either what he calls “dodgers” or “coasters.”
The workload at UT More…
The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and medical school courses. More…
While the University of Texas at Austin’s low graduation rate has become a favorite statistic for advocates of efficiency-based higher education reforms, an analysis of UT’s historical data shows UT’s graduation rate actually improved from 1983 to 2004.
According to a story in the UT alumni publication The Alcalde More…,
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Diana Natalicio fears that state budget cuts and a political climate in which education is increasingly less valued could hit hard at the border institution at which she has served as president since 1988. More…
“The state budget cuts have absolutely reduced available funds
In the wake of former Texas A&M System Chancellor Mike McKinney’s resignation announcement in May, faculty groups urged regents to keep politics out of the new chancellor’s selection process, particularly influence from the conservative Austin-based Texas Public Policy Foundation. More…
Dr. Robert S. Nelsen, president of the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, said that state budget cuts have dealt a particularly harsh blow to Hispanic-serving institutions like his, where 89 percent of students are on financial aid and 59 percent have Pell grants.
At this school in the Rio More…
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation launched a new higher education reform initiative, “Rock the Ivory Tower,” aimed at making college education “more accessible, affordable and transparent for college students,” the group said Tuesday.
In a video More…, one student points out that the average college graduate today carries a
Since his $70,000 settlement with the University of Texas System, former special adviser Rick O’Donnell has been on a barnstorming tour of Texas news outlets, airing his grievances most recently for the San Antonio Express-News.
As he had in previous interviews, the Express-News said More… O’Donnell blamed UT System Francisco
