Higher Ed Press Clips February 2012

February 1, 2012

Denver Post:

• Study: Coloradans rank among top in degrees but lag in financial security
  

Boulder Daily Camera:

• CU may give Benson power to expand project budgets
  
• Occupy CU-Boulder protesters criticize tuition increases, state funding decreases
  

Ed News:

• Wednesday Churn: CU fees going up?
  

Rocky Mountain Collegian (CSU):

• Question Authority with Tony Frank and Rick Miranda
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Using Big Data to Predict Online Student Success
  

February 2, 2012

Boulder Daily Camera:

• CU regents vote 5-4 to back in-state tuition for undocumented students
  

Ed News:

• Thursday Churn: districts buzzing
  

Ed Week:

• Blog: Community Colleges Work to Support Struggling Students
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• UC system weighs shifting tuition payments to after graduation
  

February 3, 2012

Denver Post:

• Arapahoe Community College gets grant to help student parents
  

Ed News:

• Friday Churn: New face at UCD
  
• It’s ‘Metropolitan State University’
  

Ed Week:

• Blog: Research Finds High School Rigor Tied to Success in College
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Senate HELP committee hears college affordability testimony
  

February 4-7, 2012

Denver Post:

• Colorado State University hits $500 million fundraising goal early
  
• Pilot program helps DPS track seniors’ college financial-aid forms
  

Ed News:

• Tuesday Churn:  Hick appointments
  

Durango Herald:

• FLC tuition to rise another 9%
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Cities to share mobile training
  
• Nursing school has a new take on role playing
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Taking on Robin Hood
  

February 8, 2012

Denver Post:

• Colorado colleges become better at keeping those in remedial classes on path to success
  
• More Colorado graduates that ever not ready for college
  

Ed News:

• College remediation rates rise
  
• Wednesday Churn: CSI director named
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• More college students in remediation

February 9, 2012

Denver Post:

• AP: 10 States get Ed waiver
  

Ed News:

• Successful day for education bills
  

Durango Herald:

• More remedial students sticking with college
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Many Pueblo graduates not ready for college
  

February 10, 2012

Denver Post:

• Guest Commentary: ASSET bill deserves to pass
  

Ed News:

• Friday Churn: Cost of college
  
• CSAP “rights” bill meets expected fate &  Atmosphere sunnier – if long-winded – in Senate Ed
  

February 11-13, 2012

Denver Post:

• Griego: Pre-college remedial help adds up
  
• Opinion: Graduated, not educated – Too many students are graduating from Colorado high school without the skills or knowledge to succeed in college
  

Ed News:

• Monday Churn: TBD takes another step
  

The Coloradoan:

• New CSU deal aims to bring thousands of foreign students, millions of dollars to Fort Collins
  

KJCT8.com (Grand Junction):

• Free Class Helps Students Pay for College
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Some details on proposed Obama budget for higher ed 2013
  

Washington Post:

• In China, private colleges, universities multiplying to meet higher-education demand
  

February 14, 2012

Pueblo Chieftain:

• CSU-Pueblo to host robotic competition
  

Ed News:

• Tuesday Churn: Compact reconvenes
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• A Symbolic, But Pleasing, Budget
  

Ed Week:

• Blog: President’s Budget Calls for Raise in Pell Grants
  

February 15-16, 2012

Denver Post:

• Colorado teacher-evaluation bill signed into law
  
• Colorado Senate puts jobs bills ahead of confirming governor’s appointees
  
• Murphy: higher ed in Colorado seeing higher costs than at Laramie
  

Ed News:

• Big day for amending bills
  
• Thursday Churn: The Denver Plan
  

Education Week:

• Texas Proposes Plan for Students to Complete College on Time
  

February 17, 2012

Denver Post:

• CU officials divided over bill to publish salaries
  

Boulder Daily Camera:

• Bill would create database of CU salaries, teaching loads, expenses
  

Summit Daily:

• Summit’s college remedial rates lower than state
  

Ed News:

• Friday Churn: Jeffco’s budget
  

February 18-20, 2012

Denver Post:

• Editorial: Shine a light on university pay
  

Boulder Daily Camera:

• Science Without Borders brings Brazilian students to CU-Boulder
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• President’s class is a lesson for her and student about how the college works
  

NY Times:

• Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges
  

February 21, 2012

Denver Post:

• CSU says no taxes or state fees will be used to build on-campus football stadium
  
• CSU researchers find clue to beating TB
  

Ed News:

• Tuesday Churn: Demographic update
  
• House debates “unfunded mandate”
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Professors’ pay
  

February 22, 2012

Denver Post:

• Supreme Court to rule on race’s role in college admissions policy

Ed News:

• Wednesday Churn: Literacy rollout
  

Ed Week:

• Blog: Revisiting the Hypothesis that Tuition Rises With Student Aid
  

NY Times:

• Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case
  

February 23-27, 2012

Denver Post:

• CU-Boulder fills top-level posts with retirees earning salaries plus pension
  
• Editorial: Immigration tuition bill deserves support
  
• Carroll: What size tuition hike at CU?
  

9 News:

• High school students meet with professionals at career festival
  

Ed News:

• Monday Churn Teacher induction review
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Testing determines remedial assignments
  

Rocky Mountain Collegian:

• Editorial:  Our View – An open message to Colorado voters about higher education

February 28, 2012

Daily Camera:

• CU regent: Outcry over administrators’ raises killed 15.7% tuition hike
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• PCC marks expanded center’s start
  

Ed News:

• Tuesday Churn: Duncan’s in town
  
• Partisan spat rocks House Education
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• New study tracks student transfers
  
• Raising the Bar
  

February 29, 2012

Denver Post:

• Colorado’s college graduates increasingly weighed down by student debt
  
• Colorado reading initiative aims to give every 4-year-old a book
  

Ed News:

• Duncan “inspired” by Aurora pathways
  
• Wednesday Churn: Decision on tests?
  

The Coloradoan:

• U.S. Secretary of Education applauds Colorado school reforms
  

Washington Post:

• Many students could skip remedial classes, studies find

NY Times:

• College Err in Placing Many on Remedial Track, Studies Find