NEWS
Adult education school plans for more offerings
The Cavalier Daily
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"These plans are part of a larger statewide initiative called Grow by Degrees, which aims to award 100,000 additional associate’s, bachelor’s and graduate degrees by the year 2025. The program, which has been endorsed by Gov. Bob McDonnell and is sponsored by the Virginia Business Higher Education Council, seeks to prove that investing in higher education will bring great rewards to the state."
Virginia’s education commission talks jobs, degrees at Hampton University
The Daily Press
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"We are lagging behind and need to make a major effort" to increase the number of degrees by bolstering efforts to work with public and community colleges, he said.
Virginia State University’s High Tech Business School
WCVE
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VSU takes advantage of cost saving ideas.
College prices
The Daily Press
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"Appropriations from the state budget to the state colleges aren't simply a casualty of the recession. The systematic failure to fund higher education goes well back. Even in good years, governors and the General Assembly have failed to make the commitment that would indicate they appreciate what these schools contribute to Virginia: educating its future leaders, making its businesses competitive, adding to its appeal to employers."
VSU’s business school moving to electronic texts
Petersburgh progress-Index
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"Less than 50 percent of our students buy textbooks, because they can't afford them, and as a result fall behind," said Dr. Mirta Martin, dean of the business school. "Through this licensing model we hope to break that cycle, improve retention and graduation rates, and create a pipeline of student success. Our students have always had the ability and intellect, now they will have the resources."
George Mason to Host Higher Ed Commission Committee
by Mark Hubbard
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"The meeting will focus on the innovative use of instructional technology, including state-of-the-art distance learning, and resource sharing to develop affordable new pathways to degree attainment and enhance cost efficiencies across the higher education system."
Subcommittee of McDonnell’s commission visits CRC
Collegiate Times
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"Steger acknowledged that while the research partnership between Tech and the CRC is a strong private-public model, Virginia overall does not have comparative amounts of funding coming to research as other states do."
Richmond dodges the tuition bill
The Virginian-Pilot
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"Sadly, it has been far from a theoretical exercise. Even as demand for degrees has risen, Richmond's support for public higher education has fallen. Which means tuition has been forced higher faster than anyone can afford."
State cuts push more college costs onto students
The Virginian-Pilot
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As state support continues to shrink, more and more of the burden of paying for a college education falls on students and their parents.
Governor says some schools may need to rethink missions
Richmond Times-Dispatach
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In its first full meeting, at John Tyler Community College's Midlothian campus, McDonnell gave the 45-member commission a mandate to come up with a plan that is "both visionary and achievable."
"Access to the American dream goes right through the doors of a college or a university," said McDonnell, who has set a goal of achieving 100,000 additional degrees over the next 15 years.