North Texas university presidents respond to graduation dilemma
Editor’s Update: SMU president Gerald Turner filed his response today, so it is now part of our post. We asked, and they answered. Here are several responses from university presidents across North...
View ArticleObama’s right, but how do we get more college graduates?
President Obama came to Texas yesterday to collect campaign funds for Democrats, but also to talk about higher education. In his speech at the University of Texas at Austin, my alma mater, he talked...
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Overstaying your college welcome
At Texas Tech, we had a student who spent years (way more than four) in student government. He had a better institutional memory than some of the administrators. I often wondered what was keeping him...
View ArticleGoing to college is great, but graduating matters more
The DMN’s Holly Hacker – once again – had a compelling story in the paper about how too few Texans actually graduate from college in four years. As her piece points out, about 25 percent of Texas...
View ArticleTexas’ low four-year college graduation rates
The other day, my colleague Rodger Jones handed me some interesting information about graduation rates from Texas colleges, which the DMN’s Holly Hacker has been reporting about recently. If you take...
View ArticleTexas’ two-year colleges have a graduation problem, too
We have been talking here the last couple of weeks about Texas not graduating enough students from college on time. The discussion has been about students not finishing a traditional university in...
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