Subject: Colleges and Universities

• The One Thing We Left Out of the College Survival Guide

  August 27, 2008

• Tennessee Cracks Down on College P2P File Sharing

  Sharing is for commies. Last week a press release went out that began thusly: Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed into law today a bill aimed at curbing the disproportionate amount of music theft occurring on state campus networks via peer-to-peer (p2p) services. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol, along with several other members of the music community, participated in the signing ceremony and welcomed the enactment of the legislation, SB 3794, whi

  November 20, 2008

• Tennessee Cracks Down on College P2P File Sharing

  Sharing is for commies. Last week a press release went out that began thusly: Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed into law today a bill aimed at curbing the disproportionate amount of music theft occurring on state campus networks via peer-to-peer (p2p) services. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol, along with several other members of the music community, participated in the signing ceremony and welcomed the enactment of the legislation, SB 3794, whi

  November 20, 2008

• Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Wins Prestigious "Turkey at the Top" Award

  MTSU faculty member Andy Smith discusses what it's like to be a college professor on food stamps. It's kind of like an episode of The Wire where drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield puts out the word that his street dealers are going to have to work harder and keep less of the profit, and if they don't like it, screw 'em.But in reality, it's the Tennessee Board of Regents' "New Business Model for Long Term Productivity Enhancement," dated Nov. 20, 2008.And it's so galling that it's earned TBR chancello

  December 1, 2008

• Students Mourn Death of Colleges

  Students are holding a mock funeral for Tennessee's universities to protest budget cuts during the governor's "State of the State" speech next week. "[We're doing this] because cuts to higher education of this severity are bleeding our universities and colleges to death," says Ashley Renner, an MTSU senior and organizer of Coalition to Save Our Schools. At MTSU, they're having trouble keeping the offices clean. At TSU, they're removing the tuition cap. "Honestly, I can't see TSU keeping their do

  February 2, 2009

• Bredesen Talks About Consolidating Higher Education Systems

  Here's a story about how governors across the country are using the economic crisis as a catalyst to streamline, revamp and overhaul government. What's Tennessee doing? Squat. Gov. Phil Bredesen did say in his "State of State" speech that he'd really like to do something about the higher education system, which is an inefficient mess, if only he had one more term in office. Oh well. But now, the governor is saying he might try to consolidate the state's university systems. "This is a time to lo

  February 20, 2009

• TSU's Decision to Block Trash-Talk Website JuicyCampus Raises Questions of Free Speech, Bad Taste and Internet Anonymity

  November 27, 2008

• Love-Hate Mail

  November 27, 2008

• Financial Aid Woes, Poor Student Service Dog Tennessee State University

  November 13, 2008

• News Briefly

  The court shall decide

  December 12, 2002

• College Survival Guide

  August 25, 2005

• Company Man

  Gordon Gee lends plenty of time to corporate interests—the charitable kind and those that earn him a lot of money

  October 6, 2005

• Off-Campus Living

  There’s plenty of choice when you flee the dorm

  August 25, 2005

• Lottery Scholarships

  Awards mean big responsibility for students

  August 25, 2005

• Campus Briefs

  A wrap-up of college news

  August 25, 2005

• Vanderbilt University

  With Gee in charge, only frat parties remain “old school”

  August 25, 2005

• Middle Tennessee State University

  MTSU seeks to grow happy fans, generous alums

  August 25, 2005

• The Jackson Jive

  Dickson state Sen. Doug Jackson tries to give his family's money-losing Renaissance Center to the state

  May 26, 2005

• The Vagina Dialogue

  V-State administrators censor a six-letter word

  February 17, 2005

• Georgia on UT’s Mind

  Georgia on UT’s Mind; Bulldogs offer to take over the home of the Vols

  August 28, 2003

• Watkins College of Art & Design

  The Creative Crowd

  August 19, 2004

• Tennessee State University

  The Tigers

  August 19, 2004

• MTSU

  The Blue Raiders

  August 19, 2004

• White Out

  The TSU audits didn't focus on another problem: the school's lack of white kids

  May 6, 2004

• Hefner's Second Act

  TSU's president was effectively fired from his previous university presidency after a similar controversy over financial mismanagement

  April 15, 2004

• The Sidney McPhee Problem

  April 8, 2004

• News Briefly

  Take this badge

  January 15, 2004

• Gojo to Help Choose College Presidents?

  Gojo to Help Choose College Presidents? TDOT chimp expands his influence in state government

  December 11, 2003

• Vanderbilt University

  Isn’t everyone from the South?

  August 21, 2003

• Middle Tennessee State University

  What are 10 things I need to know about MTSU?

  August 21, 2003

• Fisk University

  Some need-to-know facts about TSU

  August 21, 2003

• The Story of Jazz

  TSU alum Andy Goodrich, respected jazz veteran, returns to town to take part in a daylong celebration of the music

  April 10, 2003

• How About a New Conference for Vandy?

  January 9, 2003

• The Rising Price of Mediocrity

  Higher education leaders develop a revolutionary, but grim, plan for efficiency. Can it curb skyrocketing tuition rates?

  December 19, 2002

• Black and White

  Taking up affirmative action

  December 12, 2002

• TSU to Rename Hayhonky Hall

  TSU to Rename Hayhonky Hall

  November 21, 2002

• Campus Revolution

  Vanderbilt may be in for a $100 million-to-$200 million overhaul

  April 18, 2002

• Cluelessness on Campus

  College officials—and students themselves—report a stunning deficit of world knowledge and a profusion of political apathy

  March 14, 2002

• Compelling Interest

  A new ruling heats up the affirmative action debate

  September 6, 2001

• The Full Spectrum

  Art from African American institutions presents a wide range of styles

  January 18, 2001

• Changing of the Guard

  New top Commodore draws criticism for quick move

  February 10, 2000

• Two Steps Back

  May 6, 1999

• Lightening Up

  November 6, 1997

• Online

  May 1, 1997

• They Try by Night

  February 27, 1997

• Telling the Story at the Downtown Libary

  July 2, 2009

• Kyle Launches Governor's Campaign by Promising to Freeze College Tuition

  ​Jim Kyle kicked off his campaign for governor by making a promise he can't keep without raising taxes. He says he wants to freeze tuition rates for students throughout their entire college careers. Thanks to $500 million in federal stimulus money, higher education only narrowly escaped deep cuts this year. That money runs out just in time for the next governor's first budget. "So long as you are making sufficient progress toward attaining a degree, we will never, never raise your tuition. Wh

  August 11, 2009

• Q&A with Bredesen on Education Reform

  Here's our Q&A with the governor today on his deal with the Tennessee Education Association to mandate the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations and also on his hopes for improving colleges and universities. In higher education, Bredesen wants to tie state money to graduation rates, which are pathetic in this state. Only 44 percent of students at four-year schools graduate and only 12 percent at community colleges get degrees.

  January 13, 2010

• Lamar Attacks! Whatever Happened to Finding the Good and Praising It?

  ​Sen. Lamar Alexander said today on the Senate floor that "Democratic policies are pushing the states over a financial cliff" and "turning them into bankrupt wards of the central government." He said "the 60 senators who voted for this so-called health care reform legislation ought to be sentenced to go home and serve as governor for two terms and try to pay for it" and sending the states the bill for Medicaid expansion will cause "either higher state taxes or higher tuition, or both ... dama

  January 20, 2010

• Running a State University: It's Not Just for the Well-Educated Anymore

  ​A bill introduced in the Tennessee legislature is apparently inciting an uproar in the state's ivy-covered halls of academe. The proposed legislation involves the qualifications needed to become president or chancellor of a state university or community college. For you and me, those qualifications would have to include a doctorate. But under the proposed bill, a 10-year veteran of certain state positions -- say, a member of the governor's cabinet -- would be able to skate through with just

  February 17, 2010