By Mark Lisheron
Texas Watchdog

Please take a little time out of your day today to privately thank University of Texas Prof. David Hillis for blowing the lid off of this whole sordid business of state employees contributing to questionable charities through payroll deductions.
Hillis, in a fit of high academic dudgeon, is demanding the State Policy Committee [...]

By Peter J. Rudy
Oklahoma Watchdog
Even with budget increases of less than one percent each of the last two years, spending at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa has increased by 115% over the last decade. As the chart below shows, NOC saw three straight years of double-digit percentage growth from FY2005 through FY2007 including back-to-back [...]

By Peter J. Rudy
Oklahoma Watchdog
After a decade of spending more every year, Carl Albert State College (CASC) in Poteau, OK, is dealing with a spending decrease this year.  But the reduction of less than 1% pales in comparison with some of the increases over the last ten years.  As the chart below shows, even with [...]

By Mike Cronin
Texas Watchdog
Trustees voted 4-1 with three abstentions.
The total cost for the MBA program is about $722,000. That will fund 16 students for the program. St. Thomas will invest roughly $376,000, and HISD will contribute the remaining $346,000.
Those numbers are different than what board members discussed during Monday’s agenda review meeting. At that time, [...]

By Peter Rudy
Oklahoma Watchdog
Following up on a story from last week showing the University of Oklahoma’s spending since FY2001 has only decreased once, Oklahoma Watchdog now presents the same data for Oklahoma State University. Taking total expenditure figures from the University’s operating budgets, we see that OSU has not had a spending decrease since at [...]