The meaningful life of JJ Baskin
Just a few weeks before I became the executive director of the Texas Exes in July 2011, word got out that I was assuming the role,...
When a global issue gets personal.
It never felt like a war, not to me. From the confines of my life in Austin, what our deployed military personnel experienced...
Keep discovering long after you leave the Forty Acres.
In the summer of 2001, I arrived at the University of Texas for orientation certain about what I wanted to...
Whatever you do, do not place this issue of the Alcalde onto your coffee table and forget about it. You should really read it all the way through. I know that the...
A celebration of thoughtful reply.
Of all an editor’s responsibilities, among the most thrilling and bedevilling is responding to reader comments. In my tenure...
Drumroll, please. We have some news to brag about …
Last week I got an email from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the governing...
Infusing some play into your reading experience.
Like anything else, putting together a magazine can get rote, if you let it. Keeping up the creative energy issue...
Nominated by alumni, this list of inspiring teachers is unlike any other.
Four years ago, the editors of this magazine wanted to celebrate excellent University of...
Best-case scenario, we make it until 2015 before the cover of this issue looks outdated.
One of my favorite at-work distractions is browsing our wall of Alcalde...
When it comes to finding the best stories about The University of Texas at Austin, the Alcalde will go to the ends of the earth.
For this issue’s cover story,...
