My late father had a collection of mugs on his dresser from all the universities he and my mother, their three children and our spouses attended. He could have sipped his morning joe from a Princeton mug, or one from Stanford, Harvard, The University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Ithaca College, or The University of Rochester. Our [...]

With state support down and demand for accountability in education up, Missouris public colleges and universities may soon see dollars from Jefferson City parceled out in a new way: performance funding. A task force convened last year to study the plan has made recommendations to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, which is expected to [...]

Trevor Bailey is director of worldwide education at Adobe Systems, and leads the programs and strategies that make Adobe products easily available to education institutions. Today, only 57% of students who attend college in the US actually graduate. The country ranks 12th among 36 developed countries. President Obama’s administration has a stated goal for the [...]

Tell me about your job; how long have you held the role and what does it involve? I was appointed to the Northern Society chair in accounting and finance at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS) in September 2011. I am also subject head of the accounting and finance group. The role has a strategic element, [...]

Gov. Susana Martinezs budget proposal to change the state funding formula for colleges and universities is drawing mixed reaction at institutions in Clovis and Portales. ENMU President Steven Gamble said he thinks the university will do well under the new policy if it is approved by the Legislature. But Clovis Community College President Becky Rowley [...]

Fast facts about state funding for schools o In the 2009-11 biennium (fiscal years 2010 and 2011), state spending on K-12 public schools was 13.2 billion, accounting for 43.2 percent of general fund spending. It has remained roughly at that same level since at least 1999-2001. It remains the biggest chunk of the state budget, [...]

Obama Announces Youth Jobs Plan The Obama Administration just announced a new plan to help low-income and disconnected youth ages 16 to 24 find summer jobs and year-round employment. Part of the American Jobs Act, the program, called Summer Jobs+, is designed to lower the record-high youth unemployment. The administration estimates it will cost $1.5 [...]

The biggest education-related food fight during the past two legislative sessions will dominate the agenda of the Florida House’s top education committee again this year. A controversial bill that, among other things, tethered teacher pay to student performance and put an end to tenure passed last session after former Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a similar [...]

The recessions prolonged impact has given state higher education leaders the chance to consider ideas that would be nonstarters in a better economy, like the proposed consolidation of eight public institutions in Georgia, which was announced Thursday. The University System of Georgias plan would merge four pairs of institutions, reducing the number of colleges in [...]

Tweet January 4, 2012 Marylands higher public education system is undergoing intense scrutiny this week as a trial begins in Baltimore to examine allegations that a separate and unequal education has been provided to students at four of the states historically-black colleges. The state of Maryland has systematically failed to desegregate these four schools, Attorney [...]