Cassia Regional Technology Center duo heads to Ford HQ for competition 
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 02:19 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
A pair of graduating high school seniors from southern Idaho is headed to Michigan in June for a national auto skills competition that has already won them thousands of dollars in scholarships. Taylor Grisham and Slade Beck, both 18, won the May 4 Idaho state Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition in Boise. They earned a [...]
BSU sports rank 62nd in revenue
POSTED: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 01:22 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: Big East, Big East Conference, Boise State University, college football, Max Corbet, NCAA, USA Today
The Boise State University Broncos brought in $37.5 million in revenues in the 2011 fiscal year, an 82 percent increase from 2006. The Broncos ranked 62nd among public institutions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to data gathered by USA Today. BSU athletics officials say the revenue reports are somewhat inflated. Broncos athletics spokesman [...]
C of I hopes football will boost profile, fundraising
POSTED: Monday, May 14, 2012 at 05:16 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
The College of Idaho Coyotes are planning to play football in Caldwell in 2014, and the private liberal arts college expects the return to the gridiron will attract Treasure Valley students and some fundraising money. The Yotes disbanded their football program in 1977. The school announced May 14 the team will return in 2014, so [...]
College of Idaho looks at bringing back football
POSTED: Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 02:02 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
The College of Idaho discontinued its football program in the late 1970s, about five years before Marty Holly was hired as athletic director. Even by the time he went to work for the state’s oldest private liberal arts college, the wound had not completely healed “It was quite a traumatic event for the school, dropping [...]
Boise State commits to a larger computer science department
POSTED: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:55 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Boise State University, IGEM, software development, TSheets, WhiteCloud Analytics
Boise State University is committing itself to a beefed-up computer science program, a move tech companies say is a giant leap forward for the local industry. Mark Rudin, BSU research and economic development vice president, said the school will be funding more faculty and staff for the department, which graduates about two dozen computer science [...]
Valley County group proposes community college for McCall
POSTED: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: College of Southern Idaho, College of Western Idaho, McCall College, poverty, University of Idaho
McCall could be the next Idaho city to establish a two-year college, but locals who are organizing the efforts are preparing themselves for an uphill struggle. The McCall College Foundation, the private nonprofit created to get the college up and running, is aiming to turn empty office space into a higher education center for Valley [...]
Economist Brian Greber to leave Boise State research center
POSTED: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 05:09 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Economist Brian Greber is leaving his post as director of Boise State University’s Center for Business Research and Economic Development to pursue his own consulting work in the Treasure Valley. Greber, 54, said his part-time job at Boise State had expanded to consume too much of his time. He started there in December 2009. “I [...]
Idaho public schools budget to fund laptop program
POSTED: Monday, March 5, 2012 at 03:07 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Legislative budget writers have voted to increase state support for public schools by 4.6 percent in 2013, bumping up the minimum teacher salary by $500 a year and funding education reforms approved during last year’s session, including a statewide laptop program. The plan would more than offset a nearly $50 million cut to public schools [...]
Senate backs restoring Idaho teacher salary money
POSTED: Friday, March 2, 2012 at 12:58 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Idaho senators voted 32-0 on March 1 to reverse teacher salary funding cuts envisioned under public schools chief Tom Luna’s “Students Come First” reforms last year. The Spokesman-Review reports the unanimous vote came after lawmakers said their local school districts supported the measure. It would reverse $34 million in cuts had had been planned over [...]
Nearly 1,300 Idaho teachers left profession in 2011, up from 700 in the previous year
POSTED: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 05:08 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: Idaho Department of Education, Idaho Education Association
Nearly 1,300 Idaho teachers left the profession in 2011, up from about 700 the year before. More than half of the educators who abandoned teaching last year left for “personal reasons,” according to data from the state Department of Education. School districts reported another 96 teachers were fired and 85 were laid off in 2011, [...]
