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Beyond the 2010 NAICU Annual Meeting


The NAICU Annual Meeting may be over, but you can still benefit from many of the sessions and speakers.  We've assembled speech texts and PowerPoints for many of the sessions, available on our 2010 Annual Meeting Presentations page.

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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education

New York Times

March 11, 2010

The standards, posted on the panel's web site, lay out the panel's vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.  Forty-eight states cooperated in producing the proposed standards, which amount to a new road map for American public education.

Democrats weigh twinning health, student loan measures

Washington Post - 44 Blog

March 10, 2010

As Democratic leaders push to finish health care this month, they are weighing whether to add a separate measure that would overhaul the student loan system and expand Pell Grants.  House education chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) told reporters that he was optimistic the student loan language would be added, although he said negotiators were awaiting a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.

Senate should support changes in student aid

Nashua, N.H., Telegraph - Editorial

March 10, 2010

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act would change the way student loans are issued, eliminating banks as the middleman in the student loan process, and ending the Federal Family Education Loan program, which has provided subsidies and guarantees to private lenders that make student loans.  Given the current hostility toward the banking system, it's hard to understand how defenders of the status quo can with a straight face characterize the legislation as a "government takeover of the student financial aid industry."

Taking the state out of state colleges

Stateline.org

March 10, 2010

So-called privatization proposals have come up in every recession for the last 20 years, and a few states have loosened the reins on their top universities. The result is that a handful of the nation's top-ranked state universities gradually have become more like private institutions - with less state support, more out-of-state students and tuitions that exceed the average price tag for private colleges, about $26,000 per year.

Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says

New York Times

March 10, 2010

America's education advantage, unrivaled in the years after World War II, is eroding quickly as a greater proportion of students in more and more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the U.S.  That analysis comes in testimony before the Senate education committee by a senior education official at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, which helps coordinate policies for 30 of the world's richest countries.

Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever

Chronicle of Higher Education

March 10, 2010

U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley hasn't forgotten about college endowments.  And he's not alone.  Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend enough of their endowments for society's benefit to justify the tax exemption they get. The events of the past two years are also raising a crop of provocative new endowment questions that deserve center stage in campus boardrooms and faculty senates.

Continental Perspectives

Inside Higher Ed

March 10, 2010

The failure of American academics to embrace a common agenda for cooperation across Canada, Mexico and the United States may be preventing those countries' higher education systems from realizing some of the gains European universities are experiencing, several experts said on the last day of the annual meeting of the American Council on Education.  At the same time, the European University Association was releasing a major analysis of just how much the Bologna process has transformed higher education.

California's College Dreamers

Wall Street Journal - Editorial

March 10, 2010

Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week. Let's hope their future employers get a better work product. With just a little research, the students could have discovered that compensation packages won from the state by unions were a big reason for the hike.

A shift in young people's views on work

Marketplace Radio

March 9, 2010

The dismal state of the current American labor market is doing a job on the confidence of the next generation of workers.  A survey out today shows that job security has become the top priority for college students.  It outranks even pay and benefits.  And the study is just the latest indicator of change in how young people think about work.  Marketplace's Amy Scott explains.

Bogus intranets scam university students

Network World

March 9, 2010

In recent weeks, security company RSA has detected a sudden rise in targeted attacks on US universities - particularly public state institutions - against internal websites used to serve students with services such as webmail.  RSA is unsure as to the specific motivation for the hacks, but speculates that gaining access to an internal server could be used in launching phishing attacks that impersonate official communication, gaining access to personal data to launch identity theft attacks at a later date, or setting up student loan scams.
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