Total operating expenses for each Boise State University scholarship football player were $172,415 in 2011, including scholarships to the university. That outpaced spending at the University of Idaho, Idaho State University and most Football Bowl Subdivision schools. The costs for ...
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Otter seeks 2.9 percent hike in education funding
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter billed his State of the State speech on Jan. 6 and its proposed 2.9 percent, $37.4 million boost for public education as the start of a five-year journey to lift the quality of Idaho’s schools. Immediately ...
Read More »New Boise State football contract has big buyout
If new Boise State University football coach Bryan Harsin leaves for a new job within two years, he’ll hand over the $2 million in base compensation he’ll make during that time. The terms of Harsin’s deal, approved by the Idaho ...
Read More »Labor Department training funds will be used for computer science 
Two Idaho universities and one community college will get a combined $1.8 million from the Idaho Department of Labor for special worker training grant programs. Boise State will get most of the funding, with $1 million going to its computer ...
Read More »U of I names new president
A provost from the University of South Dakota has been tapped to become the University of Idaho’s new president. The Idaho State Board of Education announced Nov. 18 that Chuck Staben, provost and vice president of academic affairs at the ...
Read More »Parkcenter Mall could become home to Boise charter school 
Sage International School hopes to transform the nearly vacant Parkcenter Mall into its new campus. Sage International School Director of Operations Keith Donahue said the school has filed an application with Boise’s Planning and Zoning Commission seeking a conditional use permit ...
Read More »Specified, part-time MBA programs grow 
It has been a slow four years for business schools nationally.
Read More »A word with Scott Johnson: ‘The people we work with are real individuals, not the product of clicks on a keyboard’ 
Scott Johnson joined the College of Idaho last year as director of the Business & Accounting Department.
Read More »Boise State, ITC considering grant in effort to double number of computer science grads 
The Idaho Technology Council and Boise State University are gauging interest from the region’s technology community for a program that could increase the number of computer science graduates by adding more upper-level faculty. The Idaho Department of Labor is offering ...
Read More »A word with: Athlos Academies’ Ryan Van Alfen, Jason Kotter and John Stellmon 
Ryan Van Alfen and Jason Kotter are the founders of the Charter School Fund, a Boise-based not-for-profit that is affiliated with the Hawkins Companies.
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