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Noting that for several years the average age of presidents in the survey has been about 60, he said future results could be influenced by a wave of retirements, possibly prompted by the unpleasantness of overseeing declines in public-university budgets.

Public-College Presidents Score Raises Kevin Helliker 2011

If a bill passes, Texas would become the second state after Utah to open public-university campuses to licensed gun owners.

Texans Divide Over Guns on Campus Ana Campoy 2011

I consistently get better service from the local public library (admittedly, one that has consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation in its population group for over a decade, essentially since those rankings began) than I ever have from the university library ... which is host to the largest public-university collection in the nation and a perennial top-three School of Library and Information Science.

Discourse.net: Books Snark 2009

Cigarroa is asking lawmakers to limit proposed reductions in the state's funding of higher education, even as his compensation was third highest, by total cost of employment, among public-university leaders in America.

Public-College Presidents Score Raises Kevin Helliker 2011

The president of the University of California, one of the nation ' s largest public-university systems, proposed raising student fees by 8%, as part of several changes offered Monday to help close a shortfall of more than $1 billion.

UC President Proposes Fee Increase to Close Shortfall Vauhini Vara 2010

The proposals are the latest move by the storied and struggling public-university system, which has more than 200,000 students and 10 campuses and is seen as a bellwether among higher-education institutions, to grapple with state funding cuts that have hobbled California ' s public-education arena.

UC President Proposes Fee Increase to Close Shortfall Vauhini Vara 2010

For the 2007-2008 academic year, the most recent covered by the survey, median compensation for public-university presidents was $427,400, up 7.6% from $397,349 during the previous academic year.

Most College Presidents' Pay Climbing 2008

It found that the pay for public-university college presidents rose by an average 7.6% in 2007-08.

Who Pays the College Coach 2008

Fifty-nine public-university presidents were paid $500,000 or more, up from 43 the previous academic year.

Most College Presidents' Pay Climbing 2008

Atkinson's proposal, made in a speech before the American Council on Education, may have less to do with flaws in the SATs and more to do with the unique problems of UC, a public-university system with such a huge number of applicants that admissions officials need some kind of objective criteria.

The Sat Showdown 2007