Guest Columns

Guest Column: Colleges Should Use Race in Admissions

October 9, 2012 12:54 pm | no comments

This column first appeared in the Texas Tribune. The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, in which the University...

Guest Column: Race Has No Place In College Admissions

October 9, 2012 12:08 pm | 1 comment

This column first appeared in the Texas Tribune. The issue presented by Fisher v. University of Texas is whether a state university should give preference to some...

A Medical School Could Change the Game

August 15, 2012 2:51 pm | 2 comments

Institutions, like people, have defining moments. These are times when a decision reverberates in ways that only become clear decades later. The University of Texas...

Alive, Vigilant, Vital

July 15, 2012 11:09 am | no comments

Texas Exes Stand Up for a University of the First Class For 127 years, Texas Exes have served as champions of The University of Texas. On occasion, we have reminded...

How UT Professors Are Like Chefs

January 9, 2012 1:29 pm | no comments

An answer to the citizens of Texas, who pay my salary and lend me their children to educate “What do you do?” I am asked this question frequently, and often...

What Starts Here Changes Texas

October 27, 2011 12:50 pm | no comments

Sure, UT is good for the world, but first and foremost, it’s good for the state. We’ve all heard and internalized Walter Cronkite’s now-famous tagline...

Keeping Ahead of the Curve

May 1, 2011 2:24 pm | no comments This content is only available to Texas Exes members.

Of all the public policy issues our state faces, none affects more of us than education. From pre-K to PhD, how good our education system is will determine how bright...

Guest Column: Colleges Should Use Race in Admissions

Guest Column: Race Has No Place In College Admissions

A Medical School Could Change the Game

Alive, Vigilant, Vital

How UT Professors Are Like Chefs

What Starts Here Changes Texas

Keeping Ahead of the Curve

UT, Pecan Street Open New Technology Commercialization Lab

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Lawmakers, Students React to Perry’s Veto of Regents Bill

UT Men’s Track and Field Coach Retires

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Sandra Day O’Connor Promotes Civics in Wide-Ranging UT Talk

Perry Vetoes Regents Bill