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officePatricia Paredes, M.A. Executive
Director Jim Conditt Assistant Director Lynn Prince Director
of Operations executive boardDr. Charles
Cotrell, Chair President, St. Mary's University Dr. Steve Kinslow,
Vice Chair President, Austin
Community College District Dr. Juliet Garcia, Immediate Past Chair President, The
University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College Dr. Max
Castillo President, The University of Houston - Downtown Dr. Ana
Guzman President, Palo Alto College Dr. Cary Israel President,
Collin County Community College District James Spaniolo,
J.D. President, The University of Texas at Arlington Dr. George
Wright President, Prairie View A&M University
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Texas Campus
Compact Consortium to
compete for the Learn and Serve
America Higher Education Consortium FY-2009 grant.
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Texas Campus Compact
joined with a consortium of six institutions of higher education to compete for
the Learn and Serve
America Higher Education Consortium FY-2009 grant.
Colleges joining with Texas Campus Compact are:
* Prairie-View
A&M * Richland College * Southwestern University * Texas Christian
University * Texas State University * University of Texas at Brownsville
Some of the initiatives contained within the proposal
include:
* Conducting a public
transportation commuter-rail stop study
* Utilizing faculty,
students and community volunteers to design and create a park along a bayou in a
low income section a city, hurricane flood clean up, and painting old
homes
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The Case Against the College Degree
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 The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
The student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay,
as I'll show in a moment. The employer who requires a degree puts faith
in a system whose standards, you'll see, are slipping. Too many
professors who are bound to degree teaching can't truly profess; they
don't proclaim loudly the things they know, but instead whisper them to
a chosen few, whom they must then accommodate with inflated grades.
Worst of all, bright citizens spend their lives not knowing the things
they ought to know, because they've been granted liberal arts degrees
for something far short of a liberal arts education.
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Laid Off U.S. Workers Seek Future in College
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Thousands of workers and professionals are flocking back to  retrain at more
than 1,100 community colleges across the United States as the recession
pulverizes the working landscape. Community colleges offer low-cost, open-access
education to adults seeking retraining or transfer to universities, and count
more than 11 million students nationwide. The American Association of Community
Colleges say provisional figures show enrollments up between 5 percent and 26
percent in the past six months as the economy dived...
Reuters.com | Reuters (March 25, 2009)
Tim Gaynor
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Opinion:
Texas Must Commit to Investment in Research Universities
by: James D. Spaniolo, President of the University of Texas at Arlington March 23, 2009
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There is a growing consensus that Texas must develop a plan to
 support the next generation of national research universities -
so-called Tier One institutions - and that we must do so soon.
We
have a window of opportunity to chart a new course in Texas, but time
is running short. To secure our economic future, ensure the best
possible education for our students and maintain global competiveness,
we need to act now.
For years, such states as California
and New York have invested heavily in higher education. So it is no
surprise that some of the best research universities in the world are
located there. The reality is that Texas needs a bold strategy to make
up for lost time and fulfill its destiny. This is especially true for
North Texas, the largest metropolitan area in the nation without a
major research university. For a state that prides itself on being
bigger and better, the answer should be obvious....
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TxCC Member Texas State University set to roll out watershed consortium
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Recognizing the need for
long-term, wide-ranging strategies to  protect water resources, the
Rivers Systems Institute at Texas State University will be teaming up
with universities and the federal government to form the Consortium for
Watershed Excellence.
A reception will be held 10:30
a.m. Tuesday, March 24 at the Texas Rivers Center to introduce the new
consortium. All Texas State faculty, staff and students working,
studying or researching in the area of water or the environment are
invited to attend.
Members will initially include
the Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute at Oklahoma State
University, the Arkansas Water Resources Center at the University of
Arkansas, the Environmental Protection Agency and other regional
universities yet to come. Eric Mendelman, coordinator of the Initiative
for Watershed Excellence, said the consortium represents a
comprehensive effort to improve water resources....
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Sincerely,
Lynn Prince
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