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The Monroe News Star
College funding bill fails
BATON ROUGE Higher education officials Tuesday lost a possible funding source to make up for some of the budget cuts hitting campuses, leaving them speculating on the impact on their operations. House Education Committee members questions led Rep. Chris...
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Washington Examiner
Colleges, health care face cuts in House budget
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A state-run psychiatric hospital in central Louisiana shuttered. A program that aids families with children who have hearing, speech and motor control problems eliminated. College campuses pushed to financial emergency. Medical tr...
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The Monroe News Star
Adjunct faculty use up at ULM
Colleges and universities that struggle with declining funding have turned increasingly to hiring part-time faculty. It is unclear, however, how the growing reliance on more part-time faculty is affecting the quality of education students are receiving....
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The Shreveport Times
Commentary: College merger will take north La. from good to great
Much has been said and written about the proposal to merge LSUS and Louisiana Tech. This recommendation originated from a study commissioned by the chambers of commerce in Shreveport-Bossier City, Committee of 100, Community Foundation and Board of Regen...
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The Alexandria Town Talk
Walker gets national scholar recognition from The First Tee
PINEVILLE -- Tioga senior Talmadge Marcus Walker, an Eagle level participant at The First Tee of Central Louisiana, has been selected to receive the national designation of The First Tee Scholar -- Class of 2012. Walker, with that designation, can apply...
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Schneider and Goldrick-Rab: How to make the Texas Grants financial aid program more effective
As it stands, states, along with the federal government, individual colleges and private donors coordinate their aid efforts poorly. They give some students far too much money and others far too little. Dropping $100 bills from an airplane over college c...
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The Monroe News Star
House rejects giving campuses tuition control
BATON ROUGE Tallulah Mayor Eddie Beckwith took advantage of the Northern Exposure trip to Baton...- 12:16 am Monroe is about two months behind in billing customers for water, sewer and trash services because...- 11:43 pm Keith Ouchley and Harris Brown w...
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Dallas South News
SMU Alumnus Warren Seay, Jr. Running for Re-election in Desoto School Board Race
Twenty-three-year-old Desoto ISD President Warren Seay Jr hanging with kids who participate in the after school program at Amber Terrace Elementary. Warren Seay Jr., Desoto Independent School District’s Board of Trustees President, became the youngest el...
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University Business
University of Louisiana to End Remedial Classes
In an effort to boost admission standards at University of Louisiana, the university is no longer accepting students who need remedial classes. That means starting this fall, freshmen who need extra help must go to another college first. University offic...
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The Alexandria Town Talk
Colleges brace for cuts, seek new fee
BATON ROUGE -- Faced again with more budget cuts, state colleges and universities are seeking a new fee to cover part of the loss. The plan, said Commissioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell, is to ask the Legislature to approve imposing a "Sustainabilit...
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times
How to make college financial aid succeed
CORPUS CHRISTI — As a conservative and a liberal, policy wonk and professor, Washingtonian and Midwesterner — there isn't much we can agree on. Where we do see eye to eye is that most aid programs are less cost-effective than they could be. With money sc...
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Beaumont Enterprise
Budget proposes $71M in cuts to Louisiana colleges
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's public colleges face cuts of at least $71 million in next year's budget proposal — which awaits debate on the House floor this week — and higher education leaders will be pushing a bill to allow the schools to raise ne...
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The Huffington Post
Dr. Shaq and the Nation's Real Dropout Problem
This past weekend, basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal graduated from Barry University with a doctorate in education. That makes him not just an exceptional athlete, but an exceptional college graduate as well. O'Neal dropped out of Louisiana State Univer...
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The Alexandria Town Talk
Cenla professionals see LPN as entry point to nursing career
Dewanna Rhone and Onterio Fisher were in the middle of their hospital shift when they started talking about where they wanted to be years from now. Rhone, 44 and a mother of two, wants to stay on the medical side of nursing. Fisher, 27 and the father of...
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The Monroe News Star
Grads struggle to get job
A fresh crop of college graduates will enter the job market this month, with national unemployment at 8.1 percent. Any college degree still pays dividends, statistics show. But to shorten the job search while maximizing earnings and satisfaction, experts...
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