As several hundred students shouted "Vote
no!" outside the chamber door, California State University trustees
Tuesday approved a student fee hike of 20% and agreed to furlough most
faculty and staff, including college presidents, for two days each
month. The fee increase, a response to what board Chairman Jeffrey
Bleich described as a fiscal "tsunami" powered by the state's dire
budget cuts, will bring average annual statewide charges for Cal State
undergraduates to $4,026 a year, not including room, board, books and
separate fees charged by each campus...
The board of the Minnesota
State Colleges and Universities system is set to approve a budget
that would increase tuition at its institutions by about 3 percent...
Colleges are preparing for an influx of
student veterans, but how prepared are they? A new report from a group
of five higher education associations, "From Soldier to Student: Easing
the Transition of Service Members on Campus," represents, the authors
write, the first attempt to assess the current state of programs and
services nationally...
...A report released Tuesday by the National
Center for Education Statistics details what is known about Pell Grant
recipients by taking a close look at data from 1999-2000 bachelor's
degree recipients, a group in which about 36 percent of people received
at least one Pell Grant while in college. Generally, the report found
that Pell Grant recipients are more likely than others to have "risk" characteristics
(such as delaying postsecondary enrollment after high school graduation)
that suggest statistically greater chances of dropping out of college...
A new report from the Center on Reinventing
Public Education at the University of Washington questions why
it is standard practice across the country to pay teachers who
have master's degrees more than teachers who don't. The practice
is expensive -- more than $8 billion a year nationwide -- and there's
no evidence of support saying it pays off in terms of
students achievement. gthe report says...Wisconsin is in the middle
of the pack when it comes to giving teacher's a pay bump if they
have a master's, the report says...
