The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb. 25, 2009
In a nationally televised address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama promised to increase federal spending on education, while ending “education programs that don’t work.”
He urged all Americans to pursue “a year or more” of higher education, or career training, and set a goal for the nation to have the world’s highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.
“Every American will need to get more...
The New York Times
Feb. 25, 2009
The competitive edge of the United States economy has eroded sharply over the last decade, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.
The report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation found that the United States ranked sixth among 40 countries and regions, based on 16 indicators of innovation and competitiveness. They included venture capital invest...
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 12, 2009
The compromise stimulus package is likely to leave Arizonans grateful for the help but sharply aware of its limits.
Most people will still get tax cuts, but one of the state's biggest industries, housing, will find that tax breaks included in earlier versions were scaled back.
Statewide construction work mostly on roadways could nearly double this year, which should generate and preserve jobs. But such projects will still leave specialized trade workers w...
Tucson Citizen
Feb. 11, 2009
Increased enrollments at Arizona's state universities are exacerbating the task of administrators trying to stretch budgets drastically trimmed because of the worst recession in decades.
All three universities had record-high enrollments in the fall term. Northern Arizona University repeated that in the spring semester and the University of Arizona and Arizona State University are expected to also set records when official tallies are completed for the spring, officials said...
Arizona Republic
Feb. 3, 2009
Study after study, regardless of political party or ideology, confirms the value of a well-educated labor force and advanced research as engines of economic growth. As members of the National Academy of Sciences, the body created by Abraham Lincoln to advise the nation on matters of science, and as citizens of Arizona, we are deeply troubled by the options currently being considered by the Arizona Legislature to deal with the state's budget crisis.
The budgetary shortfalls confronting t...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb. 3, 2009
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told private-college officials here this morning that he was “extraordinarily focused” on increasing student aid and argued that putting money into education through the stimulus bill now moving through Congress was “the best thing we can do long-term” to shore up the nation’s economy.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Mr. Duncan lauded the res...
Arizona Republic
Feb. 3, 2009
Ted Ferris said he'll be open to anything when he leads a panel to recommend alternatives to higher-education cuts as Arizona faces a $3 billion budget deficit for the coming fiscal year.
That's why the Arizona Board of Regents assembled the Fiscal Alternative Choices Team, said Ferris, former head of the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority - to offer ideas.
"The regents just want to make sure, for the sake of higher education and education generall...
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 1, 2009
The time has come to look our future square in the eye and not blink.
Arizona does not have an expense problem. The budget crisis has not been caused by excessive spending. What we have is a serious revenue shortfall.
Two years ago, we had a billion-dollar surplus. Half of it was employed to make strategically important investments for Arizona's future and half was returned to taxpayers in the form of tax cuts. Now, the revenue level that produced the surplus has fall...
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