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Student Leaders: ‘We Refuse To Be Complacent’ About UT

May 16, 2012 2:57 pm | 2 comments

For the past two years, there has been an unfortunate ritual at the end of the spring semester at The University of Texas at Austin. While students are cramming...

University of Texas at Austin Lands on Another Top 10 List

Now Is No Time for Instability

May 10, 2012 8:57 pm | 4 comments

Fellow alumni and friends of the University: We need to bring your attention to an important issue regarding the future of The University of Texas. The UT System...

UT-Austin Medical School Gets a Go From Regents

May 3, 2012 4:05 pm | 2 comments

It’s an open secret that the United States can’t educate all the doctors the country needs. There aren’t enough slots in existing medical schools...

Regents Raise Tuition at All Petitioning Schools But UT-Austin

May 3, 2012 3:48 pm | 2 comments

Tuition for in-state undergraduates at UT-Austin will not go up for at least another two years, but other categories of students—as well as those at nearly every...

Healthy ATX: First Step Toward A Medical School in Austin

Healthy ATX: First Step Toward an Austin Med School

April 23, 2012 3:43 pm | no comments

Can’t see the video? Click here. Austin’s got it all—the Capitol, a top-tier university, major tech companies, and much more. What it doesn’t...

UT Seeks Cost-Cutting Advice From Corporate Superstars

April 9, 2012 7:00 am | no comments

The vice president of Boeing International. The chief operating officer of Accenture. A senior vice president at Dell. What do these particular executives share...

Exxon CEO Speaks Up for Research in Higher Ed

March 27, 2012 11:49 am | no comments

Rex W. Tillerson, BS ’75, Life Member, is the CEO of ExxonMobil Corp. This column first appeared in the Dallas Morning News. Few public policy issues are more...

UT Is Third Among World's Leading Academic Patent-Seekers

UT Is Third in World’s Leading Academic Patent-Seekers

March 20, 2012 4:12 pm | no comments

The only thing better than national bragging rights? International bragging rights. With 127 published patent applications last year, The University of Texas System...

President Powers: Students Should Stop Buying More College Than They Need

February 29, 2012 9:14 am | 3 comments

In his State of the Union address last month President Obama put universities on notice that if they couldn’t hold tuition down, the federal government would withhold...

Learning by Doing: Why Students Need Lab Time Sooner

February 16, 2012 1:56 pm | no comments

Imagine the impact on the arts if we required every aspiring instrumentalist to complete 12 years of theory and careful study of the masters before being allowed...

Student Leaders: ‘We Refuse To Be Complacent’ About UT

Now Is No Time for Instability

UT-Austin Medical School Gets a Go From Regents

Regents Raise Tuition at All Petitioning Schools But UT-Austin

Healthy ATX: First Step Toward an Austin Med School

UT Seeks Cost-Cutting Advice From Corporate Superstars

Exxon CEO Speaks Up for Research in Higher Ed

UT Is Third in World’s Leading Academic Patent-Seekers

President Powers: Students Should Stop Buying More College Than They Need

Learning by Doing: Why Students Need Lab Time Sooner

What to Make of the New Medical School and the Tuition Freeze

For the BCS, “Playoff” No Longer a Dirty Word

Everything’s Hotter in LA, Including the Texas Chili

Creepy Crawlers Draw Crowd to Insecta Fiesta

See Gulf Seafloor Live Through Longhorn-Led Expedition [Watch]

Student Leaders: ‘We Refuse To Be Complacent’ About UT

Wildflower Center Opens 16-Acre Texas Plant Arboretum

Publish or Perish

From Marfa to Mauritania: The Rise of the McDonald Observatory

Students Present $100,000 to Two Nonprofits