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Thursday, February 24, 2011

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1. College coaches' fat paychecks stir controversy, by Chris Isidore - http://t.co/SJgHnBg via @CNNMoney

"The latest storm is in Lubbock, Texas, where Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville is getting a 33% raise after just one year, to $2 million. The new contract is guaranteed through 2014.The school says it was making good on a verbal agreement made with Tuberville when he was hired. But the raise comes as many faculty members are going without raises, and the school prepares for expected cuts in state support."

2. Collective Bargaining Rights and Higher Education, by Maria Newman - http://nyti.ms/dFYehK

‎"Mr. Jaschik points out that most college faculty members nationally are not unionized. “A Supreme Court ruling has largely blocked faculty union organizing at private colleges, while state governments regulate collective bargaining in the public sector,” he writes. Unions are more prevalent in colleges and universities in the Northeast, Midwest and West, he said."

3. Roadblocks for ROTC? by Dan Berrett - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/epTDUE

"Opponents generally fall into two camps -- one opposing ROTC because of whom it excludes, the other because of what the military does (a third line of criticism arises from faculty concerns over the academic quality of ROTC programs)."

4. Professors in the Crosshairs, by Mary Hoeft - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/dHoim0

‎"Frequently, during class, he would turn to the young woman seated next to him and engage in a conversation. After asking him repeatedly to focus his attention on what I was saying, I finally asked him to switch seats. I made the request three times before he got up and moved. As he slowly walked across the room, I saw on his face what I had seen only one other time in my teaching career: hate."

5. HEARING: Preventing Abuse of the Military's Tuition Assistance Program - http://bit.ly/g9OyeW

"The hearing will examine the state of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Tuition Assistance Program, which provides tuition assistance benefits to active duty military personnel who wish to take classes while concurrently fulfilling their active duty service requirement. In Fiscal Year 2009, 376,759 service members participated in th...e program and DOD spent over $517 million on the benefit."

6. The Top Jobs For 2011: NACE Salary Survey - http://huff.to/dIRjRV

"College seniors studying accounting are in luck -- accounting firms are doling out more offers to members of the class of 2011 than companies in any other area, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' Winter 2011 Salary Survey. . . ."

7. Value of College-Admissions Test-Prep Classes Unclear, by Caralee J. Adams - http://bit.ly/fGQl1B

‎"Test-prep programs generally include three elements: a review of test content, practice on test questions, and orientation to the format of the test. In 2009, in cooperation with NACAC, Mr. Briggs reviewed three national data sets and found the average effect of commercial coaching is positive, but slight. Test-score bumps were more in the neighborhood of 30 points (on a 1,600-point scale at the time). . . ."

8. Can universities keep the minority students they woo? by Sarah Butrymowicz - Hechinger Report: http://t.co/Q9XFx2A

"But a study released last summer by the Washington D.C.-based Education Trust, which analyzed data from 456 colleges and universities, found a disturbing gap in graduation rates when disaggregated by race. At private institutions, 73.4 percent of white students earned their degrees within six years, while only 54.7 percent of black students and 62.9 percent of Hispanic students made it through the schools they started."

9. FAFSA frustrations? Financial aid expert online Thursday to answer questions, by Jenna Johnson - http://wapo.st/gB5pYC

"Starting at 1 p.m/ Thursday, I will be online to answer questions with Mark Kantrowitz, a leading financial aid expert and the publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org. Mark has written three books about financial aid, including "Secrets to Winning a Scholarship." Please send us your questions now!"


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