Higher Education News
With College Affordability an Issue, U.S. Falls Behind in Degree
Attainment
1/31/2008
The United States continues to fall
behind other major industrialized nations in terms of the percentage
of the population with a college degree, according to a recent
series of joint studies released by the National Center for Higher
Education Management Systems and Jobs for the Future. (Reuters)
What Secretary Spellings Thinks of the College Rankings
1/09/2008
[...] Spellings is also making a
push to make the relatively secretive higher education accreditation
process much more understandable. She said in the same speech that
accreditation remains veiled and confusing even for many within the
higher education community (US News)
Texas Governor Slashes State Funding for Community Colleges
6/20/2007
Community college leaders say they'll be
forced to cut services such as remedial instruction or raise tuition
or taxes after Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a portion of their state
funds. (Dallas Morning News)
2/28/2007
Globalization has come to every hometown, every school and
every workplace, but students and workers are not given the tools to
keep up, governors reluctantly agreed Tuesday. (Boston Globe)
Carrying Out the Commission’s Ideas
8/17/2006
Moving with surprising speed, the U.S. Education Department plans to
announce Friday that it will hold a series of regional meetings with
college officials and others this fall to discuss how it might use
the federal rule making process to carry out some of recommendations
of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher
Education. (Inside Higher Ed)
Concern Over Boys' College Enrollment Numbers
3/6/2006
American boys continue to fall behind
girls in their enrollment numbers at the university level.
Commentator Richard Whitmire asks where the boys are, and where the
concern is over these falling rates. (NPR Audio Clip)
Education Secretary plans higher-ed commission
9/19/2005
America's system of colleges and universities is famously
decentralized, producing experimentation and variety but making it
hard to tackle big-picture issues such as access and affordability
on a national scale.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans to announce a major
initiative today to address that problem: a commission charged with
developing ''a comprehensive national strategy for postsecondary
education," according to remarks in an advance copy of a speech she
is expected to deliver at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
Personal data of 38,607 may be at risk due to UNT computer security
breaks
8/8/2005
The University of North Texas began notifying about 38,607 current,
former and prospective students today that some of their personal
information may have been available electronically to unauthorized
persons. (UNT News Service)
119 students who failed courses get group e-mail
6/17/2005
Due to an e-mail mistake by the University of Kansas, 119 students
who failed all their classes during the last semester found out who
shared their misfortune. (USA Today)
Texas Lawmakers May Tighten Rules on Two Key College Aid Programs
4/11/2005
The state's most successful college assistance program is in danger
of being further eroded. (Houston Chronicle)
University of Mississippi Joins List of Colleges Leaking Data
4/6/2005
Former employee violated university policy by saving names and Social
Security numbers on a backup file stored on a web server. (MSNBC)
Stolen University of California, Berkeley Laptop Exposes Personal
Data of Nearly 100,000
3/28/2005
Universities have accounted for 28 percent of the 50 security breaches
of personal information recorded by California since 2003, said
Joanne McNabb, the chief of the state's Office of Privacy Protection.
(ABC News/AP)
Junior Grows Up
3/14/2005
Community college enrollment is up all across the country, as these
two-year schools have emerged as a surprising backdoor route to
a higher education (North Shore Sunday)
Blogging Clicks With Colleges
3/11/2005
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms
and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other
file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the
next big thing on campus: wikis. (The Washington Post)
Texas Lawmakers move on tuition costs
3/10/2005
Concerned about the skyrocketing cost of tuition at Texas universities,
Senate budget writers overwhelmingly approved a proposal Wednesday
that would penalize schools unable to contain costs. (San Antonio
Express-News)
American Association of Community Colleges Creates Corporate Council
3/7/2005
Datatel, Inc. today announced that Russ Griffith, Datatel president
and CEO, will serve as the first chairman of a newly developed Corporate
Council for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
(Datatel)
White House formally announces programs proposed for elimination
2/27/2005
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