SF State Academic Senate

03/11/2014

America wasn't always riddled with student loan debt. Here's the twisted truth behind what caused the cost of higher education to skyrocket.

03/11/2014

President Leslie Wong announces a schedule for the partial reuse of the Science Building.

03/03/2014

American students are well over $1 trillion in debt, and it's starting to hurt everyone, economists say

02/26/2014

Bay Area residents woke up to cloudy skies and wet streets Wednesday as the first in a pair of storms moved into the region. The weather service has also been tracking lightning strikes about 400 miles offshore that are expected to make landfall during the afternoon. Another, stronger system expecte...

02/26/2014

Trends associated with college affinity card agreements include fewer agreements and cardholders and declining payments, according to data GAO analyzed from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB). The number of af...

02/20/2014

In pro sports, Washington's basketball team recognized the tastelessness of Bullets (changed to Wizards in 1997) while its football team remains in denial about the offensiveness of a nickname not worthy of citation in this newspaper. According to State's website, the alligator was chosen from a rea...

02/17/2014

More and more faculty at America's colleges and university are underpaid and undervalued. Can that change?

02/13/2014

The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities in the US has outpaced the number of students and faculty in the last two decades. Perhaps their bloated salaries are partially responsible for budget shortfalls in recent years.

The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analysis of federal f...

01/30/2014

An annual survey's findings reveal growing skepticism among academic leaders about the long-term prospects for massive open online courses.

01/30/2014

"The College Board estimates that the average student attending a four-year public college will spend $1,200 on books and supplies this year. According to a 2013 study by the Government Accountability Office, textbook prices have increased by 82 percent in a 10-year period, far more than consumer prices."

January 28, 2014 by Danya Perez-HernandezOpen Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and AcademicallyAs the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has f...

01/21/2014

Information about big changes to come is available for the institutions that seek it out.

01/21/2014

State spending on higher education is up, after years of cuts, but public colleges are not yet receiving as much in appropriations as they did before the recession. In the current budget year, which began for most states last July, 40 states increased funding for public colleges, according to the an...