http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Feed/5 Includes news and events happening in higher education, both locally and nationally. en-us Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:02:26 -0600 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:02:26 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss MGSLP Inhouse Content System Copyright 2011 MGSLP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MGSLPHigherEd/~3/sCfCmHxZSVo/ “Lawmakers on Tuesday nixed any suggestion that Montana State University-Northern could face the chopping block in the next legislative session. Legislators on the Interim Finance Committee met Monday and Tuesday at the Capitol to consider a host of ideas from legislative staff as to what lawmakers might consider cutting when they return to Helena in January for the 2011 session,” reports the Great Falls Tribune. “Legislative staffers developed hundreds of suggestions for cutting costs and programs to make up for the state's deficit as it braces for an estimated budget shortfall of at least $350 million. A suggestion to close MSU-Northern's Havre campus was on that list” Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:02:26 -0600 http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/185/ http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/185/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MGSLPHigherEd/~3/2YUVP7m86iM/ Whether they live in Massachusetts or Montana, students should end up graduating with a common base of knowledge. That was the consensus Wednesday when governors, state education chiefs and other officials from across the country released the final version of Common Core State Standards -- a road map to make learning uniform across the country. The document encourages U.S. states to revise their curricula and tests to standardize what students learn throughout the country. Those who support the Common Core State Standards platform see it as a way to close achievement gaps among U.S. students and better prepare them for college. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:40:06 -0600 http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/182/ http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/182/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MGSLPHigherEd/~3/Tt09kBA1DXo/ “Montana State University will receive a $1.2 million, four-year grant to strengthen biomedical education and research opportunities for undergraduates, and to help American Indian high school students prepare for college, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced Thursday,” reports the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. "HHMI is committed to funding education programs that excite students' interest in science," HHMI President Robert Tjian said in a press release announcing the awards. Mon, 24 May 2010 16:12:50 -0600 http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/175/ http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/175/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MGSLPHigherEd/~3/Fuow36ixvoM/ “Dr. Gary Young, dean of the Montana State University Billings College of Business, has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the university,” reports the Billings Gazette. “Young begins his job on June 7 to permit a smooth transition with current provost, Dr. D’Ann Campbell, who will be moving to Canton, Mo., to become the academic affairs leader at Culver-Stockton College.” Mon, 24 May 2010 16:12:04 -0600 http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/174/ http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/174/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MGSLPHigherEd/~3/2rTX-DEs5zM/ The student loan overhaul legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday could add $52 billion to the deficit between 2010 and 2020 when the cost of the market risks and administrative expenses of the loans are taken into consideration, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported. “CBO recently estimated that whereas loans issued in the direct loan program between 2010 and 2020 would reduce the deficit by a total of $68 billion under FCRA accounting, those loans would increase the deficit by $52 billion on a fair value basis,” reads the March 2010 CBO study, Policy Options for Federal Student Loan Programs.( See p. IX of the Summary.) Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:55:36 -0600 http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/173/ http://www.mgslp.state.mt.us/News_Feeds/Item/173/