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Iowa Students Feel the Pinch of University Budget Cuts
By Kate Foley - Politics DailyHoliday shopping just got more more difficult for Iowa college students this year. Thanks to state funding cutbacks, many students will be spending a little less on gifts and a little more on tuition. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver approved a $522 million budget cut on Oct. 28, erasing 10 percent of funds from each of Iowa's 28 state departments. Well over half the cuts -- $332 million -- came out of educational funding, which covers everything from grade schools to universities. Though the reductions affect students at both private and state colleges, state-funded schools are suffering more ...
Coaching Salaries Spiral Out of Control
By Kevin B. Blackistone - AOL NewsAt the University of Maryland, where I started teaching a course last semester, the university president just before last Christmas announced that the campus would have to implement a furlough plan -- unpaid leave -- this year because of budget cutbacks from the state due to the economic downturn. Maryland wasn't alone. Arizona State implemented furloughs. Utah State did the same for all of its 2,995 employees the second week of last month. That followed layoffs at Clemson. Small schools like John Carroll University in Cleveland aren't immune as it, too, forced unpaid vacations on ...
Spring Practice Questions Complete Series: The Big 12
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsIn case you've missed the FanHouse's awesomely awesome and fantastic Spring Practice Questions, I've cobbled together the "Complete Series" for Big 12 teams.Seriously, read these, folks. They're about football. And right now the sporting world isn't about football. And you're dying for more football. That's why you're here. To endure this choppy writing of mine. And read these Big 12 Spring Practice Questions. The complete series. Below.Previously at the FanHouse:Spring Practice Questions: Texas Tech Red RaidersSpring Practice Questions: Iowa State CyclonesSpring Practice Questions: Missouri ...
Spring Practice Questions: Iowa State Cyclones
By Brian Cook - AOL NewsLast Year: 4-8, 1-7 Big Twelve Fans Are: Vaguely hoping to beat Iowa. Expectations: None. It's Iowa State. 1. What now? For the first time in over a decade, Iowa State has a coach who isn't Dan McCarney. Former Texas defensive coordinator Gene Chizik, an adventurous fellow indeed, takes over one of the Big 12's most perpetually moribund programs. Other than Baylor, there's no team in the conference with the deck stacked so heavily against it. Not only is it further removed from the conference's primary wellspring of talent, Texas, than any other Big 12 team, but it stands alone amongst ...
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