HEEF: Enabling CA's Latino students to pursue higher education
VOXXI
The Orange County Hispanic Education Endowment Fund (HEEF) has spent the last 19 years supporting the higher education of Latino students in Orange County, California. The organization has awarded more than 1,600 scholarships to Latino students, ...
President Obama's Bold Plan To Reshape American Higher Education
New America Foundation (blog)
Last night, the Obama administration did the opposite: the higher education section of the State of the Union address was much the same as last year's, focusing intensely on college affordability and putting institutions on notice that the gravy train ...
Stanford Report
Higher education grapples with accreditation in the digital age
Stanford Report
There is a great, unmet demand as poor, working-class and middle-class students who seek a college degree view it as financially out of reach. All of this is taking place as state financing for higher education is declining. The new kid on the block ...
The American Prospect
The White House's new College Scorecard is online
San Jose Mercury News
As concern about the ballooning cost of college grows, so has demand for access to information about the value of college education, Siqueiros said. "I think all of us deserve that kind of information so we can make good choices about where we invest ...
President wants to tie accreditation to college costsUSA TODAY
President Obama's Bold Plan To Reshape American Higher EducationNew America Foundation (blog)
Q&A: How Do You Measure Value in Higher Education?The American Prospect
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US Department of Education releases College Scorecard
Naples Daily News (blog)
Following President Obama's State of the Union address, today the U.S. Department of Education released an interactive College Scorecard, which provides students and families the critical information they need to make smart decisions about where to ...
Obama's college scorecard is a good ideaDallas Morning News (blog)
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The Republic
GUEST EDITORIAL — Higher education still shorted in state budget
HollandSentinel.com
Business Leaders for Michigan, a roundtable of the state's largest employers, sees the higher education issue and looming shortage of college graduates as critical issues for future prosperity. The group has benchmarked Michigan's universities against ...
Michigan Education Spending: Governor Rick Snyder's University Funding Plan ...Huffington Post
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Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Maintains the institution's components of the Performance Accountability System (PAS). Minimum qualifications: Master's degree in higher education business administration, educational leadership, or a closely related field. At least three years ...
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Five Reasons The Government Shouldn't Subsidize Higher Education
Michigan Capitol Confidential
When the government is in the business of handing out money, interest groups lobby to get it — or advocate to receive more than they are already getting. So it is with spending on higher education. As the Michigan Legislature debates the state budget ...
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Rejecting the New Normal
Inside Higher Ed
“Times are changing; I think there's a broad, public consensus that the defunding of public higher education is a huge problem,” said Stanton A. Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and vice president of the ...
Americans can afford to educate everyone, and three new papers show us howMinnPost.com
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On Notice, Again
Inside Higher Ed
The few sentences on higher education in the State of the Union speech hit many of the same themes as last year, when Obama first told colleges they were “on notice” and would have to either control rising costs or lose federal money. “Taxpayers cannot ...
