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Marketing, Reputation, and Image Update
Big time sports wins don't translate into more students and private support: It is urban myth, but the reality is national championships in sports do not necessarily pay off campus-wide, a new Knight Commission study shows. This revealing new information should deep-six the constant refrain that winning sports equals exponentially larger recruiting classes and private support.
The National Science Foundation -- long the glamour program of federal government funders -- is in for hard times if a House subcommittee's recommendations become reality. Should this pass Congress, NSF funding -- which some researchers refused to believe would ever be curtailed -- would dramatically slow its meteoric rise of recent years.
Tuition continues its spike, but perhaps the boom percentages of recent years will slow.
K-State -- and others -- chided for football practice and academic credit. In the realm of ̉can you believe this still occurs, the Washington Post uncovered myriad instances in which varsity football players at elite national programs receive academic credit for on-field practices and games? You can bet this antiquated practice will soon end.
What to do when a $1 million-plus donation comes from a notorious name like Ken Lay of Enron-fame? That is what the University of Missouri is now battling:
California, long the promiser of higher education for all qualified state residents, is deluged with burgeoning enrollments and declining state revenues. Is the California system at a historic crossroads as some suggest?
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