Higher Education

Poverty at UH

Teaching fellows looking for raises.

Forced to Work at Waffle Bus, Rice English Ph.D. Students Lodge Stipend Complaints

It seems that the Teaching Fellows at the University of Houston may have started something. While those English Dept. Masters and Ph.D. students have begun a sit-in near Chancellor Renu Khator's office to force a discussion about their meager stipends -- the group's annual funds remain below the nat ... More >>

Top 5 Food Trends on College Campuses

Dining halls in colleges have changed for the better over the last several years. Thankfully, we have said good-bye to mystery meat and slop, and are saying hello to upscale cuisine, various methods of service and eco-friendly options. Over the last four years I have been in school at Baylor Univer ... More >>

Beginner Pong: Rice Amasses 54,000 Online Students for First Coursera Class

Distance learning, until recently, has mostly been relegated to certificates and diplomas from second (or third or fourth) rate schools aimed at getting college degrees into the hands of anyone who could afford the courses. But, with technology -- particularly video -- dramatically altering the way ... More >>

UPDATED: Northwestern (Prestigious) or Northwestern State (Unknown)? Lone Star Chancellor Dr. Richard Carpenter's Listed Academic Credentials Are Wrong

See Lone Star Board President Randy Bates' comments at the end of this post. Go to the website (unless they've changed it) of the Lone Star College System in Houston, type in the word chancellor in the search box and you'll find out their chancellor, Dr. Richard Carpenter, has a degree from the pre ... More >>

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

America's for-profit colleges offer education only a con man (or a congressman) could love.

Ka-Ching! UH-Downtown Gets $3.2 Million Federal Grant

The University of Houston-Downtown has been awarded a $3.2 million federal grant earmarked for first-generation Hispanic students. The university is one of only 19 in the nation (and three in the state) to receive the U.S. Department of Education grant, administered through the the Title V Developi ... More >>

TCEQ Says No to Millions of Dollars in Tax Breaks for Valero

​Area school districts and cities had to be breathing a big sigh of relief today as news came out that the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said "no" to handing out large tax breaks to Valero that would have made things even worse for cash-strapped government ... More >>

Cover Story: UH Grad Sues African-American Fraternity Omega Psi Phi for Alleged Hazing

​Lee West III, a University of Houston junior and Omega Psi Phi pledge, says that during underground pledging meetings for the African-American fraternity (which turns 100 years old next month) in February 2009, he was beaten with a television antenna, a paddle and a broomstick that eventually ... More >>

More Semen Means Less Depression for Women, Surgeon Writes

Help a woman out.....​Want to make a woman less depressed? Pump some semen into her. Apparently any orifice will do. Of course, that means having unprotected sex, so the above advice, given in a recent issue of Surgery News, the journal of the American College of Surgeons, is causing some pro ... More >>

HISD Accused of Spurning HCC in Favor of Lone Star College

Has HISD found somebody new?​State Senator Mario Gallegos has a new beef with the Houston school district -- he says HISD is stiffing Houston Community College in favor of Lone Star College. Gallegos wrote to HISD superintendent Terry Grier saying the district's "been extraordinarily indiffer ... More >>

“WYSIWYG, a site specific community interactive installation by Wendy DesChene”

Chris Stewart: Klein HS Star Takes On Unique Challenge At Notre Dame

Photo couttesy NDChris Stewart in Haiti, helping with earthquake relief​Chris Stewart was a highly recruited lineman coming out of Klein High School; he chose to go to Notre Dame.After a few bumps, he's thriving, and right now he's taking on a challenge no Irish football player has ever tried: Goi ... More >>

"Long Way She Wave"

Marco Villegas pays tribute to a legendary Japanese printmaker

Rice University Residential College Guarantee: Not All Students Get What They Pay For

Photo by SkinnyOrangeCatRice: Getting crowded in here​Note to incoming Rice University undergrads (and their parents) expecting the full "residential college" experience: Be sure to read everything that you get on Rice letterhead.One of the universities' primary selling points is its residential c ... More >>

Surprise! Another Community College System Is Unhappy With Former HCCS Head Bruce Leslie

Photo by Daniel Kramer​Former Houston Community College System chancellor Bruce Leslie left his job in 2006 before his term was up, after some stormy times with the system's board.As the Houston Press reported two years prior to that, dissatisfaction with Leslie was rampant. Critics said he suppre ... More >>

O'Brien's Song

After years of fighting everybody and anybody, now the ornery, annoying civil rights activist has to concentrate on fighting for his life.

Texas A&M's Administration Doesn't Think Much Of Its President

Texas A&M has released the performance evaluation of its president, Elsa Murano, and things aren't looking so hot for her. Murano's January 2008 hiring was held high by A&M, because she was the youngest president ever and also the first Hispanic and woman to hold that post. But a review of ... More >>

Austin School District Plans To Board The CEP Train To Nowhere

It looks like Austin ISD is ready to take the Houston ISD route and dump some of its troubled kids into the hands of Community Education Partners, the for-profit operator of alternative schools throughout the country. CEP operates two facilities here in Houston and as we've noted before, seems to be ... More >>

5th Annual Historically Black Colleges & Universities Film Festival

Web exclusive!

Rice University Is Still A Value. An Expensive Value, But A Value

In 2003, tuition to Rice University was $18,850. By 2008, it had risen to $29,960 - an increase of $11,110, or about 59 percent.Does that mean Rice is losing its reputation as the go-to school for an awesome, awesomely priced education? Apparently not.Despite the steep tuition increase, Rice was rec ... More >>

Texas Legislature Needs to Do Better By Its College Students, Or Let's Just Keep Exporting Them to Other States

As we close in on rodeo time at the 2009 version of the Texas Legislature, education funding, as usual, will be one of the main topics. And in a dour economy, it's no secret that the degree-of-difficulty factor has just been ramped up a couple extra notches.We caught up with Scott Hochberg (D-Housto ... More >>

First Lesson In English Comp: Use Lots Of Red Tape

Houston Law Students Have Some Buyer's Remorse

Longhorns Party On, Burying Their Sorrows

The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not

They are American in everything but name. They can go to college in Texas and improve themselves. Doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they're just illegal immigrants without social security numbers or futures.

UH President Says a Med School Would Be Nice

College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training

Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students

Community Education Partners -- Why It’s No Better for Atlanta Than It’s Been for Houston

Creationism, Food Not Bombs, Fake Panhandling

Texas may okay creationism degrees

…But That Doesn’t Mean the Sex Is Safe

First-Degree Fraud

Just $249 gets you a bachelor's -- or, hell, a master's -- from Belford University, an online diploma mill with local ties

Back to "School"

Winning Ugly

Don't ask how, but the city made a good move

Go, Baby, Go

Behind the barricades with the Pro-Life Cougars and their dead-fetus pictures

College Credit

Shopping spree for your first apartment: $2,500
Spring break in Cabo: $1,000
Avoiding college credit card debt: priceless

Rice Freeze

Market losses force a temporary hiring ban at the university

Blaffer's Brouhaha

Angry UH art students overturn a Sultan's decree

Rough Cut

A film-in-progress dissects the relationship between med students and their cadavers

Spin Control

Rice University's slow, systematic makeover of KTRU is just the latest example of a college determined to pattern itself after corporate America

Best A Cappella Group

The Lager Rhythms

NOD So Naughty

Rice will try to tone down its annual Night of Decadence

Do Not Go Gentle

Former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby fights on for better, more diverse education in Texas

The Insider

Following the Money

The Angelides Affair

A dispute over research fraud has split the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, and could jeopardize the way universities police scientific misconduct

No Problem, Man...

James Douglas has a plan to return TSU to itsformer glory. But first, he's got to keep the school out of bankruptcy and conservatorship.

Malpractice

Dan Morales' showboating witch-hunt against "bogus" doctors is indeed an "incredible story." Incredibly lame.

Swinish Behavior

Texas A&M's attempt to push an animal research center on a black neighborhood has raised a sour smell in College Station

Crisis on Cullen Boulevard

Funding is down. Faculty is fleeing. And 50 professors are in semi-open revolt. Is the University of Houston on an irrovocable slide toward mediocrity?