Higher Ed Press Clips July 2011

July 1, 2011

Denver Post:

• CU officially joins Pac-12
  

Diverse Higher Education:

• College Enrollment Pool Increasingly Turing to Adult Learners
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Budgets Half Empty, Glass Half Full
  

NY Times:

• What’s the Most Expensive College? The Least? Education Dept. puts it all Online
  

Time:

• Should Tenure Be Abolished
  

July 2-5, 2011

Ed News:

• Monday Churn: New head for A+ Denver
  
• Some states leave low-income kids behind
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7/5/11): Gaps in Financial Outlook for High School vs. College Grads
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Throwing Out a State Vote – Appeals court throws out Michigan ban on affirmative action
  

Wall Street Journal:

• Teachers could Defer Obama Support
  

NY Times:

• Union Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations
  

Slate:

• How Florida Give Poor Students a Chance
  

July 6, 2011

Denver Post:

• Editorial:  A victory for college diversity
  

Daily Camera:

• David Getches, former CU-Boulder law school dean, dies of pancreatic cancer
  
• Colorado State University to improve benefits for veterans’ children
  
• Five projects with CU-Boulder ties on final Atlantis shuttle launch
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Maintenance over Management: A Survey of Business Officers
  

Hartford Courant:

• Yale Concludes Largest Fundraising Campaign in History: $3.881 Billion
  

July 7, 2011

Denver Post:

• Colorado gaming commission dealt new hand after Gov. Hickenlooper bumps five-member board
  

Chieftain:

• Governor fires entire gaming commission
  

Ed News:

• Panel urges higher charter standards
  

The Republic:

• Hickenlooper asks for resignations after panel gives tax breaks to Colorado casinos
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7/7/11): Economy Continues to Hurt Colleges; Tuition Raised
  

Wall Street Journal:

• UNC Makes Risky Online Bet
  

RCP:

• Op-Ed: The College Scam
  

The Sun Journal (North Carolina):

• Chronicles of Higher Education
  

July 8-11, 2011

Denver Post:

• Colorado State University System chancellor Joe Blake stepping aside
  
• Colorado has rich history with shuttle program
  
• Tax measure effort for Colorado schools at halfway mark
  

Denver Business Journal:

• CSU Chancellor Joe Blake to step down
  

Craig Daily Press:

• CNCC approaching August opening for new Craig campus
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder’s newest carport will trap solar power for campus
  

Ed News:

• Monday Churn: 2010 PERA audit on tap
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Mixed News on State Student Aid
  
• Two Cultures – NACUBO meeting focuses on divide between academic and business officers
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound (Blog): Food for Thought as College Set Tuition and Trim Expenses
  

Washington Post:

• College, Inc. (Blog): Maryland immigrant tuition bill goes to voters
  

NY Times:

• Budget Cuts Hit California Higher Education Hard
  

July 12-13, 2011

Denver Post:

• 41 Colorado school districts line up for evaluation pilot program
  
• CSU researchers tout potential of biofuel grasses
  
• CSU-Pueblo professor earns American Chemical Society honor
  

Chieftain:

• Op-Ed: A real leader
  

Ed News:

• Wednesday Churn: Demographic trends
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• The End of Subsidized Loans?
  

Stateline:

• Coming this fall: big tuition hikes
  

July 14, 2011

Denver Post:

• CSU reports boom in private donations
  
• Douglas County district’s plan for “school” puts it further into uncharted charter territory
  

Daily Camera:

• Obama higher ed chief says president wants more college graduates
  
• CU-Boulder economists see slow growth through end of year
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• How the Recession Re-sorted Freshman
  
• The Fall of the Faculty: New book argues bloated administration is what ails higher education
  
• For-Profits That Share Data
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7-13-11): Students Taking Out Private Loans Unnecessarily
  

July 15, 2011

Chieftain:

• CSU-Pueblo distance program a great buy
  

Ed News:

• Is state a “critical” player in voucher pilot?
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Remedial Plus
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7-14-11): Lack of College-Educated Workers Will Hurt Economy
  

July 16-18, 2011

Denver Post:

• Out-of-state university recruiters
  

Aspen Daily News:

• Tax district get ready for revenue fallout
  

Ed News:

• Monday Churn: Update on budget cuts
  

Colorado Public Radio:

• Keeping Kids in College (after clicking on the link above, click on ‘Listen’ to hear the story)

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder prof monitoring ‘mousanauts’ on board International Space Station
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Loans and Deficits – increased student loan interest rates to reduce deficits and probably not expand grants
  

NY Times:

• Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!
  

North Western Florida Daily News:

• Op-Ed: The Privatization of Public Higher Education
  

July 19, 2011

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• UNC education programs re-accredited
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Frustration with the Feds – financial aid administrators exasperated by regulations
  
• Online and Incomplete – study finds higher dropout rates for community college students who take online courses
  

Wall Street Journal:

• State Test No Child Left Behind
  

July 20, 2011

Denver Post:

• Hickenlooper joins board of trustees of Western Governors University
  

Chieftain:

• Gov. releases economic recovery ‘blueprint’
  

Diverse Issued in Higher Ed:

• State Colleges Seeking More Out-of-State, International Students Amid Fiscal Crunch
  

NY Times:

• A History of College Grade Inflation
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Stepping out – group of for profit college commits to public disclosures
  

9 News:

• CSU study reveals fruits, vegetables often thrown out at school
  

Texas Tribune:

• Rick O’Donnell Releases Faculty Productivity Analysis
  

July 21, 2011

Denver Post:

• CU, CSU see big gains in donations
  
• Editorial: Keep your hands off Pell Grants, Congress
  

Daily Camera:

• CU raises $213.2 million in donations, setting new record
  

Ed News:

• Thursday Churn: GOP grouchy about flyer
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Revising (Trashing?) Student Teaching
  
• Path to the Bachelor’s Degree
  

NY Times:

• Training of Teachers Is Flawed, Study Says
  

July 22, 2011

7 News:

• Colorado University Donations Increase
  

9 News:

• Colorado School of Mines tapped to fix urban water problems
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• For-Profit Debate Redux
  
• Tenure Across Borders
  

Baltimore Sun:

• Op-Ed: The peril of cutting Pell Grants
  

July 23-25, 2011

Denver Post:

• $1 Million Grant to boost colleges’ remedial courses
  

Daily Camera:

• Colo. poised to take lead in aerospace industry, business leaders tell CU
  
• CU-Boulder campus technology rolls out new tools for fall
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Colo. to receive college completion Gates grant
  

Durango Herald:

• Grant will help remedial college students
  

CBS News 4:

• Colorado to get $1 Million for College Reform
  

Ed News:

• State will use $1 million on remedial ed
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Does Performance Funding Work?
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7-25-11): Efforts to save Pell Grants from cuts ramp up
  

July 26, 2011

Denver Post:

• CSU equine lab destroyed in early morning fire
  

Ed News:

• Garcia upbeat on chances for R2T grant
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7/26/11): Study Gives Snapshot of Work and Debt of New College Grads
  

East Valley Tribune:

• Arizona universities step closer to performance pay
  

July 27, 2011

Denver Post:

• CSU still gauging damage after fire at equine reproduction facility
  

Daily Camera:

• Copper stolen again from CU-Boulder’s biotechnology building
  

7 News:

• Medical Pot School Is Snuffed Out
  

Ed News:

• Wednesday Churn: CASB issues a warning
  

IndyStar:

• $1M grant to help Indiana graduation rate
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7-27-11):  Surveys Tap Into Student Voices to Improve High School
  

July 28, 2011

Denver Post:

• Colo. panel reviewing school discipline policies
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Pell as a Paycheck – pilot program looks at disturbing pell grants as paycheck
  

NY Times:

• Once Nearly 100%, Teacher Tenure Tate Drops to 58% as Rules Tighten
  

LA Times:

• California Dream Act backers look to the next step
  

July 29, 2011

Denver Post:

• Colorado governor, attorney general stand against education-funding challenge
  

Ed News:

• Curtain rises on historic Lobato trial
  
• The Churn: Lobato maneuvering
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder students required to take online alcohol course
  
• CU-Boulder donates recycled computers to low-income youth
  

Ed Week:

• College Bound Blog (7-28-11): Duncan Pushes for Maximum Pell; Obama Listens to Students
  

NY Times:

• (Texas Tribune) Schools Turn To Fees After Drop in State Aid