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NMSU names new Chancellor, and new President

NMSU board of regents announced both a new Chancellor and a new President for the university. Previously there was one person who was designated as both chancellor and president. Now there’s two. The new Chancellor Dan Arvizu, in particular, is quite an...

Higher Ed crisis continues

Economic setbacks from global economic trends and the recession job losses, along with partisan gridlock, have put many states’ budgets into crisis mode overall. It’s not just the states that are under the present control of “cut government costs as...

Higher Ed “bubble”?

I’m most interested in how universities use these fallow years to experiment with technology and new ways of delivering education at a cheaper price. For years, colleges and universities were charmed beneficiaries of both demography, with climbing teenage populations,...

College Calculus: value of a degree today

There is much speculation on what is going on with the US economy, and the stagnant wages, and lack of high paying jobs for the large groups of college graduates the US “puts out” every year. Innovation and automation seems to be having a significant...