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Lost Boys: UT Panel Explores Crisis of Race & Gender [Watch]

Lost Boys: UT Panel Explores Crisis of Race & Gender [Watch]

February 9, 2012 11:28 am | 1 comment

Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school are unemployed, incarcerated, or dead. That sobering statistic (from a 2010 College...

 
 
UT’s Rural Enrollment Up, Hispanic Enrollment Edges Down

UT’s Rural Enrollment Up, Hispanic Enrollment Edges Down

January 30, 2012 3:17 pm | no comments

How close is UT to creating a student body that looks like the rest of Texas? A new Office of Admissions report on enrollment diversity shows that progress is happening,...

 
 
Alumni Gear Up for Month of Service [Watch]

Alumni Gear Up for Month of Service [Watch]

January 26, 2012 3:30 pm | no comments

Texas Exes around the country and even the globe are preparing for an entire month of community service projects. For the very first time, the Texas Exes are partnering...

 
 
19th MLK Day March Kicks Off on Campus

19th MLK Day March Kicks Off on Campus

January 17, 2012 3:48 pm | no comments

Austin’s 19th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community March kicked off from the UT campus yesterday. UT President Bill Powers, State Rep. Dawnna Dukes,...

 
 
Students Explore History of Campus Activism

Students Explore History of Campus Activism

November 30, 2011 12:25 pm | no comments

In a 1971 Cactus yearbook photo spread titled “A Diverse Campus Society,” students are pictured studying on the lawn and walking to class. Some have...

 
 
Texas Exes, UT Partner on Huge Service Project

Texas Exes, UT Partner on Huge Service Project

November 2, 2011 3:04 pm | 2 comments

For the past 13 years on a Saturday in February, about 2,000 UT students wake up early to paint buildings, plant trees, build benches, and otherwise make a difference...

 
 
Openly Gay Student-Athletes Are "Fearless"

‘Fearless’ Exhibit Examines Openly Gay Student-Athletes

October 14, 2011 12:53 pm | no comments

The photographs hang in a hallway on the ground floor of Gregory Gym—a corridor walked daily by thousands of students hurrying to and from the weight room, volleyball...

 
 
Following the Precursors

Following the Precursors

July 12, 2011 9:01 am | 1 comment

In the six decades since Heman Sweatt—the first African American admitted to UT—walked through the doors of the law school, thousands of courageous and talented...

 
 
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  • Frank Schiffel: Its not only the students, its also the alumni. We all need to contact our state...
     
  • Mary Hemenway: Nice article in spite of a couple of small errors: 1. Harlan's Globetrotters wa...
     
  • Paul Beaver: The University of Texas was established by the Texas Constitution as a means for...
     
  • Paul Beaver: Why do the fans think the SEC is so great???....they only play themselves and ra...
     
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