
GOP Candidate Sen. Marco Rubio continued his theme during the GOP debate Tuesday that the United States is in global competition yet is unprepared to engage in it, in part because the nation’s higher education system is outdated.
by Dr. Susan Berry10 Nov 2015, 8:46 PM PST0

Silicon Valley’s “coding bootcamps” are a cottage industry of fast-track private vocational schools for graduates looking to enter the competitive tech industry as software engineers, data scientists, and other in-demand jobs. Many coding bootcamp graduates who hold college degrees in areas notorious for slim earning potential (like English majors) and are now fully employed in the tech industry making a lot more money.
by Ferenstein Wire27 Oct 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

President Obama announced “my Administration is launching a new College Scorecard” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for
by Ian Hanchett12 Sep 2015, 5:23 AM PST0

Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush slammed Hillary Clinton’s plan as being a poor fit for the modern economic and educational needs of today’s students and for its negative impact on taxpayers.
by Sarah Rumpf10 Aug 2015, 5:26 PM PST0

Governor Greg Abbott spoke to Houston business leaders about his legislative agenda to make Texas “even stronger.” In a speech before the Greater Houston Partnership, Gov. Abbott reiterated the key elements of his State of the State speech he delivered to a joint session of the Texas Legislature on February 17th.
by Bob Price27 Feb 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

Texas Governor Greg Abbott moved forward with his priority legislation items by declaring five issues to be “emergency items.” The emergency designation allows the Texas Legislature to act on the items within the first sixty days of the session which
by Bob Price20 Feb 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

When the dust settled in the University of Illinois clout abuse scandal, not only were the institution’s president and regents fired, but a statewide officeholder, the house speaker, a state senator, a congressman, and two state representatives found themselves in hot water and their political careers in ruins. Texas legislators should pay attention.
by Michael Quinn Sullivan17 Feb 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

An email message was sent to the entire faculty of the University of Texas at Austin on a university listserv Tuesday morning encouraging them to oppose a “campus carry” bill being considered by the Texas Senate, SB 11, which would allow those with permits to carry concealed handguns to also carry their guns on college campuses.
by Sarah Rumpf11 Feb 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

Ann Coulter, columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” argued that the federal government was “promoting a bubble” with higher education similar to the subprime mortgage bubble on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “The
by Ian Hanchett12 Jan 2015, 8:33 PM PST0