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Taiwan should give the green light to students from China and recognize diplomas from 41 prominent Chinese schools by June, Education Minister Wu Ching-chi said yesterday. Students interviewed by cable stations expressed concern that the Chinese students...
Tags: National Taiwan University, universities presidents, China, Shanghai, Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University, Partners Harvard Medical International, Lin, Education
University of Iowa officials turned to a $100 spring tuition surcharge for students rather than employee furloughs, pay cuts or layoffs to help deal with a $24.7 million midyear state budget cut. Members of the Iowa state Board of Regents narrowly approved...
Tags: Iowa Board of Regents, University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa State University, Sally Mason, budget cut, tuition surcharge, tuition request, tuition increase, universities presidents
There's a reader's poll on this week's SF Gate: Should UC Berkeley stop subsidizing intercollegiate sports? It's a debate that's gaining more traction these days, only a month after thousands of students, faculty and staff walked out of all eight UC campuses...
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Several Iowa lawmakers are raising questions about bonuses being made available to the state's regent university presidents during a tough budget year. Republican Rep. Jeff Kaufmann of Wilton says performance bonuses should not remain an option for University...
Tags: Jeff Kaufmann, universities presidents, University of Iowa
With a bad economy choking the flow of tax dollars, Florida lawmakers knew it would be tough to write a state budget this spring. But, as the annual legislative session enters its final week, House and Senate leaders have been tangled in behind-the-scenes...
Tags: House-Senate, Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Legislature, Southwest Florida, University of Florida, universities presidents, higher education, pay cut, Capitol
One of the most explosive issues of the legislative session -- higher education money -- takes center stage Thursday when the leaders of the state's university system plan to converge on the Capitol and bash the proposed budget of the Florida House of...
Tags: University of North Florida, Florida House of Representatives, universities presidents, higher education, Florida Gulf Coast University, Wilson Bradshaw, proposed budget, press conference, John Delaney, State University System
University of Iowa President Sally Mason and the leaders of the other institutions in the Iowa state Board of Regents system will forgo performance bonuses this year and a raise next year, regents announced on Friday. Mason will not have the opportunity...
Tags: Iowa Board of Regents, University of Iowa, Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa, universities presidents, regents presidents, presidents david, public universities, forgo raise, Mason
Mark Emmert, University of Washington: $887,870 3) John Casteen III, University of Virginia: $797,048 4) Mark Yudof, University of Texas system: $786,045 (resigned June 2008) 5) Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan system: $760,196 Private universities,...
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