Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Janet Wilson
North Little Rock – Members of the Arkansas Association of Public Universities and the Arkansas Association of Two Year Colleges applauded as Governor Mike Beebe recently signed The Roger Phillips Transfer Policy Act. Rep. Mike Burris introduced HB 1357, which will make transferring credits between state colleges and universities easier. Burris invited the daughters and [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Janet Wilson
The Arkansas Association of Public Universities (AAPU) today announced its endorsement of Governor Mike Beebe’s tobacco tax proposal to fund a statewide trauma system and other health programs.
The presidents and chancellors of AAPU institutions voted unanimously at a recent meeting to support the plan. AAPU institutions, particularly the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, are [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Janet Wilson
All of Arkansas’s four-year public universities will soon be connected to ARE-ON, the high-speed fiber based optical communications network that will expand research, academic, healthcare and emergency preparedness capabilities throughout the state.
ARE-ON (Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network) provides access to national/international high speed infrastructure such as the National LambdaRail, an ultra-fast national Internet infrastructure [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Janet Wilson
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A group of college presidents and other top education officials says the USA’s “economic, democratic and social health” could worsen over the next several decades if more Americans don’t earn a college degree. The group is pushing to increase the percentage of young people who earn a degree from 40% to [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Janet Wilson
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday morning that a state law allowing no-bid contracts on some state construction projects is constitutional.
The court affirmed a Pulaski County circuit court ruling that the 2001 law applying to contracts of $5 million or more does not violate the state constitution.
The circuit court ruled against a [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Janet Wilson
By Jack Stripling (Insidehighered.com)
WASHINGTON — State support of public colleges is shrinking.
Endowment values are plummeting.
Tuition is increasing, and threatening college affordability.
Sounds pretty bleak, right? Not if you run a for-profit college.
“In my opinion, all of that is good news for career colleges,” Rene Champagne, chairman of the Career College Association, told fellow leaders of for-profit [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Janet Wilson
By Ed H. Moore
November 29, 2008
(South Florida Sun-Sentinal)
“You produce good jobs by having great education.”
With these words, Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed a bold package of changes in both public tuition structure and governance.
Florida has 28 private, not for profit, colleges and universities and 11 public colleges and universities. They are laboratories for innovation [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Janet Wilson
There may be a war against Christmas, but the holiday is holding its own at public universities. On Wednesday, facing widespread criticism, the president of Florida Gulf Coast University reversed a ban on religious holiday decorations on the campus. This is the second year in a row that a public university has initially called off [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Janet Wilson
If tuition policy is a vexed question in normal budget years for public universities, it will be especially challenging to discuss public policy on the subject this year. States are facing record deficits and many public colleges are seeing enrollment and application increases — a formula that could combine to create large, unpopular tuition increases.
In [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Janet Wilson
The number of research doctorates awarded by American universities grew for the sixth straight year and reached another record high in 2007, according to the National Science Foundation’s first report from the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. The overall rate of growth was 5.4 percent.
But while the increases showed strength in many fields, particularly the [...]
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