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Making high school students pass all courses needed for admission to the University of California could backfire
SILICON VALLEY MERCURY NEWS. APRIL 25, 2013. As schools strive to prepare students for college, more districts are requiring teens to take college prep courses — the same courses required for admission to the University of California — in order …
CSU chief concerned about Brown’s higher ed plan
U-T SAN DIEGO. APRIL 24, 2013. California State University Chancellor Timothy White expressed concern Wednesday that the governor wants to tie state funding to increasing the number of freshmen who graduate in four years and to other targets that could …
Fewer College Students Use Credit Cards, Most Maintain No or a Low Balance
ENHANCED ONLINE NEWS. APRIL 24, 2013. Over the past two years, college student ownership of credit cards has declined from 42 percent (2010) to 35 percent (2012), according to research from Sallie Mae and Ipsos. Freshmen were least likely to …
DeVry Responds to My ’3 Suggestions for For-Profits’
INSIDE HIGHER ED. APRIL 24, 2013. A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled 3 Suggestions for For-Profits. I wrote this post because I am both a fan and a critic of for-profit education. The original post was written at …
California Senate Panel Mulls Course Outsource
INSIDE HIGHER ED. APRIL 25, 2013. California’s Senate education committee is expected to vote next week on a newly amended plan to allow online courses from unaccredited providers to count for credit at the state’s three college and university systems. …
Life After Steel
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. APRIL 22, 2013. Bobby Curran grew up in a working-class neighborhood here in Baltimore, finished high school, and followed his grandfather’s steel-toed bootprints straight to Sparrows Point, a 3,000-acre sprawl of industry on the Chesapeake …
Ex-Official at San Francisco State U. Is Accused of Taking $183,000 in Bribes
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. APRIL 24, 2013. Prosecutors charged Robert Shearer, who left the university in 2009, with 128 felonies for allegedly taking bribes in return for approving waste-disposal contracts to an outside vendor who was also charged, the San …
California’s “Knowledge Economy” and Its Discontents
FOX & HOUNDS. APRIL 24, 2013. The “knowledge economy” is perhaps the dominating narrative in California employment in 2013. It is a narrative pushed forward by a number of the state’s leading policy organizations, management consulting firms, and economic development …
Under Plan, California Would Embrace Performance-Based Funding For Colleges
INSIDE HIGHER ED. APRIL 23, 2013. California would move aggressively into performance-based funding for higher education under a draft plan being circulated by Governor Jerry Brown, the Los Angeles Times reported. Under the draft of a revised budget blueprint for higher education, …
Community-College Accountability Measure Still Holds Policy-Making Potential
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. APRIL 23, 2013. A tool being developed “by community colleges, for community colleges” to measure their effectiveness is still not ready, but its proponents hope wider adoption through its testing phase will give it influence …
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