Even as authorities continue to stifle the public protest, the Occupy Movement has found new venues for activism. The movement has grown on college campuses around the country. From the organization of an Occupy UMASS to the continued activism of students at Occupy UC Davis More…, college campuses
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will likely implement a policy change this week to the so-called Texas version of the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition while attending college in Texas. In a meeting scheduled for Thursday More…, Jan. 26, at the THECB offices in
California joined Texas in making it easier for undocumented immigrants to attend college when Assembly Bills 130 and 131 were passed into law. However, despite the intentions of the legislation, the California version of the DREAM Act faces the same limitations as the Texas version.
AB130, which went into effect More…
This semester students will no longer be able to smoke a cigarette between classes at North Central Texas College. Throughout Texas, colleges are clearing the air as campuses are instituting tobacco bans. The changes in policy are aimed at improving the environment around campuses. Implementation and enforcement of the bans More…
With the rising cost of tuition and decreasing funding from the state, Texas universities are increasingly looking for more tools to increase their efficiency and productivity. How to measure faculty productivity has become a contentious debate within the higher education establishment, and Texas A&M University has been at the center More…
In the months since the Occupy Movement has begun, a significant segment of the protest has been focused on issues relevant to college students. The rising cost of higher education and the heavy burden of student loan debt have spurred students to get involved in the movement.
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Public universities have been trimming budgets across Texas, adjusting to cuts in higher education funding by the Texas Legislature earlier this year. Along the way, graduate students — who depend on modest department funding for their livelihoods, have been some of the least notice casualties of the cuts.
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A University of Texas at Austin study released this week More… challenged the perception that its professors are unproductive, as some higher education reform advocates have claimed, concluding instead that faculty “work very hard for their students and provide an incredible return on investment for the state.”
Higher education reform advocates,
