Research cash cut to universities

U.S. students crossing the pond for college
When Adelaide Waldrop learned that she had been consigned to the wait list at each of the four universities she wanted most to attend, it was as if all the excitement had drained from her collegiate quest. Then she remembered her wild-card school: the University of St. Andrews, the medieval cobblestone campus in Scotland. Now Waldrop, of Silver Spring, is a St. Andrews sophomore, one of a growing number of American Students who enroll at top-ranked British universities, which offer the prest...

Students call on Branstad to fund higher education
University of Iowa Students plan to push Gov.-elect Terry Branstad to protect Higher Education funding in next year’s Budget. The student body’s governmental relations liason sent out an e-mail to Students last week, urging them to make contact with the incoming administration or their local lawmakers. Try to add personal details: you had to take on a part time job because of rising Tuition, your mom lost her job and you don’t know if you and your parents will be able to contin...

Ex-NSU president who made Virginia history speaks at TCC graduation
NORFOLK Marie McDemmond is healthy, happy and a grandmother. Five years after stepping down as president of Norfolk State University, she was back in town as the Keynote Speaker for Friday's commencement at Tidewater Community College. The years she spent at NSU seem like a long time ago for a woman who has battled Cancer and, for the time being, won. "I am in remission, and I am doing quite well," said a vibrant-looking McDemmond, wearing an elegant black business suit trimmed in gold...

McDonnell's Dumbest Budget Move...So Far
According to the State Council for Higher Education, "State support for Virginia public higher education will be reduced by more than $400 million or 27% by FY2012 from the original FY2010 Budget, and is 33% below the FY2001 level after adjusting for Inflation...Federal stimulus spending permitted colleges and universities to limit Tuition and fee increases...in FY2011." The State Council also noted, historically "the Commonwealth restricted Tuition increases during a period of strong economic ...

America's biggest rip-off: college tuition bubble and student debt escalate
The financial magazine Forbes recently blew the whistle on how skyrocketing College Tuition is ripping off the public. Thanks to some colleges’ greed, and the federal and state Financial Aid subsidies that reward Tuition increases, “Higher Education’s price-earnings ratio looks like Nevada housing circa 2007″ at the height of the Real Estate bubble. “The financial data are making a College Education tougher and tougher to defend.” And ...

McDonnell punishes VCU for tuition increase
Gov. Bob McDonnell said Friday that he has withheld state money equal to half of Virginia Commonwealth University's 24 percent Tuition increase as a message to colleges and universities about rising Tuition rates. Noting that tuitions for Virginia Students have doubled in the past 10 years, McDonnell said, "That is unacceptable." McDonnell on Friday proposed a number of Budget amendments in remarks to the General Assembly's money committees. The room was lined with Lobbyists. VCU raised Tuition ...

Thatcher, Reagan, and Those Revolting British Students
The images of violent Protests in London coming in from across the pond are disturbing to most Americans. But if some are tempted to find comfort in the idea that what is going on over there could never happen here, they should think again. At issue in the United Kingdom is the announced policy change, more than a year under discussion and review, to subsidize less of the College Tuition of Students. In the recent past, the top amount (calculated here in dollars) a student would pay for a year'...

Is he kidding? Gov. Chris Christie wants more tax cuts for the rich
A few days after saying New Jersey is so broke it must cut medical benefits for Retirees and freeze their pensions forever, Gov. Chris Christie now says he wants to cut income taxes for the rich. Think about those priorities. Middle-class families just lost their property tax rebates. Schools lost nearly $1 billion in funding, their biggest hit ever. Thousands of working poor families were closed out of Health Care programs. And our colleges and universities were whacked hard, forcing Tuition hi...

Columbia News
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kicked off a year-long series of “Conversations with the Country” at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum on April 18. In his address, he emphasized both the proper strategic role of Military power in U.S. Foreign Policy and the importance of investing in the nation’s Military Veterans through Higher Education, career opportunities and support services. “This is the beginning of an effort to connect with communi...

UK snow strands air travellers
Freezing weather leaves airport passengers stranded as parts of the country grind to a halt. Widespread Travel Chaos caused by some of the severest winter weather for a century left Christmas commuter plans in tatters and swathes of the country paralysed today. Delays and cancellations at a host of UK airports continued to hit thousands of passengers, while plummeting overnight temperatures left almost the entire road network caked in Black Ice. After shutting yesterday, Heathrow said it would ...

So, You Think Your Kid Is Special?
Here is a news flash for all you academic elites who constantly disparage the Military and all others who hold on to bad opinions of those who enter the military. Your honor Student, college-bound kid is pretty stupid! And probably fat to boot.Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the Military fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions. The report by The Education Trust fo...

Diplomas, Inc.
From The Pope Center's Studying or Partying? The Five-Year Party identifies a problem with college, but gets a barely passing grade: The reward for Students being good clients and paying ever-increasing amounts of Tuition dollars and other fees is a diploma. However, because they have not received a real education, their diplomas are almost worthless, and they cannot obtain decent jobs with them. Although most schools imply that graduating from ...

Candid photos capture music greats
Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and BB King - just a few of the musical greats who have been photographed by Danny Clinch. In a career that has spanned a quarter of a century, Clinch's images have landed everywhere from Album Covers to the pages of Rolling Stone. But it's not just his documentary style that sets him apart. In describing Clinch's unobtrusive approach, Metallica's lead singer memorably said: "He is the fly on the wall. The one you don't feel like squashing." Danny Clinc...

Movement to enable Web surfers to avoid tracking
As debate rages over the Federal Trade Commission's proposed Privacy system for online consumers, a number of organizations are developing technological means of enabling surfers to exercise greater control over the information collected about their Internet behavior. The regulatory plan and new tools come at a point of growing distress over the amount of data that marketing and tracking companies often surreptitiously collect about online activity, and the increasingly sophisticated technolog...

This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.
Even the title is awful: Assange, Morality, and Desire. The article is positively craptacular. It's from yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education, which, for those who don't know, is the premiere journal for higher education professionals. The author, a recently tenured Professor, basically attempts to make the case that Assange shouldn't be faulted for Rape because of cultural and age differences with his Victims. Because older Australian men have different sexual ideas than young Swedish wom...

The disposable academic
ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a Thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral Thesis is both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of Students who embark on a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) every year. In most c...

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student Loan Reform Puts Taxpayers On The Hook. The dramatic rise
Higher Education BUBBLE UPDATE: Student Loan Reform Puts Taxpayers On The Hook. “The dramatic rise in Student Debt—and in Student loan defaults—could leave the American taxpayer on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars. The landmark Healthcare Reform law signed by President Obama last March included a relatively little-noticed provision that overhauled the federal Student loan program.” ...

Here and There
Catholic University, in Washington, DC is the flagship university in the US Catholic educational system. It is also, as it turns out a popular place for Muslim undergraduates to study: In the past few years, enrollment of Muslim Students such as Shabnan has spiked at Catholic campuses across the country. Last year, Catholic colleges had an even higher percentage of Muslim Students than the average four-year institution in the United States, according to the Higher Education Research Institute. T...

Retired admiral urges ODU grads to keep open minds
NORFOLK At first, the crowd was quiet. But when family and friends spotted loved ones walking into the Ted Constant Convocation Center for Old Dominion University's graduation, their excitement quickly built. They cheered, whistled, screamed and waved. Gov. Bob McDonnell spoke to the graduates during a morning ceremony. Retired Adm. William J. "Fox" Fallon spoke at an afternoon ceremony. In all, about 1,100 graduates were honored. Fallon was the subject of a 2008 Esquire Magazine artic...

Corbett Names Secretary Of Administration.
The Corbett Transition Picks Up Speed ... ... this afternoon with another cabinet announcement. Gov.-Elect Tom Corbett has tapped Kelly Powell Logan , 47,of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, as S ecretary of Administration . Logan's spent the last seven years at the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency as Executive Director of public service. Logan also served as secretary of the Department of General Services under the Ridge/Schweiker administration from 2001-2003, the transitio...

Anticipating higher revenues, McDonnell outlines spending priorities
Anticipating a slightly brighter Budget outlook for Virginia over the next two years, Gov. Bob McDonnell is pushing to spend more on Economic Development, transportation, and Higher Education -- a far cry from the extensive budget-ax wielding that has characterized General Assembly sessions of the past few years. Following a lean 2010 session in which the state was forced to close a $4.2 billion shortfall in the current two-year budget, McDonnell expects state revenues, driven by stronger-than-...

2011: The International Year for People of African Descent
The United Nations has declared 2011 "The International Year for People of African Descent."  Professor Vernellia Randall (Dayton) plans to a conduct a Series of Webinars on "Health Status, Social Determinants of Health and African Americans." She is looking for panelists to join the interdisciplinary webinars that will be scheduled throughout the year. Social determinants of health are the key factors in the health status gap between blacks and whites. Social d...

Lenfest donates to boost college graduation
Philanthropist H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest will give $750,000 to city campaigns to increase college-graduation rates, Mayor Nutter announced Monday. Through the foundations of Lenfest and his wife, Marguerite, $200,000 in each of the next three years will go to a mayoral initiative that provides resources through a central website - www.phillygoes2college.com - to help Students plan for and finance Higher Education and to connect them with mentors. An additional $150,000 will go to study the ...

State University of New York Moves to Microsoft's Cloud
REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced a new universitywide agreement with the State University of New York (SUNY) to make the Microsoft Live@edu suite of online communications and collaboration tools available to its 64 campuses across the state of New York. SUNY sought to decrease costs while providing its 465,000 Students with up-to-date technology necessary for success in college and in today's Workforce. As a result, SUNY Students will have access to a...

We're All Conservatives Now
Stanley Fish on education, law and society. Tags: Conservatives, Higher Education, liberals Last week conservative Activist David Horowitz, author of the Academic Bill of Rights, e-mailed me to report, in sorrow, that Penn Sate University had weakened “the only Academic Freedom provision . . . worthy of the name.” What the university had done was revise an 1987 statement stipulating that “it is not the function of a faculty member . . . to indoctrinate his/her studen...