Colleges and alumni associations throughout Texas are making money from banks and credit card companies by selling them the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of alumni, faculty, ticket holders, donors and students, according to reporting by KENS Channel 5 in San Antonio.
Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t been specific about his plans to overhaul the state’s higher education system, but he has made clear his intention to make some changes — and higher education reforms in Texas will be a likely template. #
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…
Previously, the Texas Independent reported that, on average, regents of Texas university systems are less-educated than their counterparts in other large states. Further analysis shows that the average number of academic degrees held by Texas university system regents has not changed significantly since 1999, the year before then-Gov. George W. More…
A group whose founding members include powerhouses in Texas higher education announced its formation in the wake of controversies over university proposals pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and a conservative think tank.
The Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education was created in order to “advance excellence at our state’s
A controversial bill that would allow for the concealed carry of guns at Texas
public colleges and universities may be dead, says the bill’s author.
After a tense, but eventually successful, campaign to pass the legislation in the Senate earlier this month, state Sen. Jeff More…
State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Austin) opened herself up to charges of “elitism” by right-wing conservatives when she referred to her own doctorate degree as evidence that she understands the value of university teaching and research, and Gov. Rick Perry’s lack of a graduate degree as evidence that he does More…
Texas A&M University history professors drafted a letter to university administrators today asking them to make a statement in support of the university’s LGBT community. The letter was in response to a wake of criticism of the GLBT Resource Center by the some members of the Student Senate and the More…
Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney is stepping down effective July 1, 2011.
McKinney announced the move in a letter to faculty:
Many of you have heard me say over the past five years that serving as the Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System is
A statement by Dick Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader from Texas, that only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members at Texas A&M brought in enough money to pay their salaries is false, according to an investigation of the data by the Pulitzer Prize-winning site, Politifact.com
“Upshot: Without More…
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