01/09/2009
Report: UVa best value among public universities (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The University of Virginia offers students the best education for their money of all the nation’s public universities, according to Best Value Colleges for 2009, a ranking released Thursday by The Princeton Review and USA Today.
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01/09/2009
Texas universities hurt by stock market plunge (The Conroe Courier)
DALLAS – With the stock market plunge, Texas universities are calculating how many millions they’ve lost – and making plans for how to deal with the drop.
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01/09/2009
AIMA to collaborate with foreign universities (Business Standard India)
The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of management schools in India, plans to go global by forming alliances with foreign universities like Yale and INSEAD.
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01/08/2009
Private universities expect tough budget year (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By GENE TRAINOR DALLAS — Tuition at Southern Methodist University will increase about 6 percent for the 2009-10 school year to $35,160 for a full-time undergraduate as it and other area universities work to balance their budgets. Add the average room-and-board rates, and the cost to attend SMU will total about $47,600 next school year, a 5.7 percent increase, officials announced this week. The ...
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01/08/2009
Opportunities for universities (Western Advocate)
CHARLES Sturt University vice-chancellor Professor Ian Goulter is urging universities to grasp an opportunity for positive change. Prof. Goulter said the release of the Bradley Review into the future of higher education in Australia, and CSU and Southern Cross University’s plan to conduct a feasibility study into the establishment of a new national university based in regional Australia, marked ...
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01/08/2009
Texas universities make Kiplinger’s list (Austin Business Journal)
Three private Texas universities made Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 100 Best Values in Private Colleges list for 2008-09.
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01/08/2009
Universities plan cuts (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
DALLAS -- With the stock market plunge, Texas universities are calculating how many millions they've lost -- and making plans for how to deal with the drop.Offi ...
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01/08/2009
Private universities expect tough budget year (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Universities nationwide, especially private ones, are facing budgetary pressures.
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01/07/2009
Texas universities' endowments shrink (UPI)
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Public and private universities in Texas are struggling with endowments diminished by the sharp drop in the U.S. stock markets.
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01/08/2009
Prospects doubtful for funding more flagship universities, lawmaker says (Austin American-Statesman)
Despite growing discussion about the need for additional public flagship universities in Texas, the prospects for underwriting an effort to lift one or more schools to that level are dim because of what is expected to be a tight state budget, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said Wednesday.
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