Building Landmarks
It’s 4:30 p.m. on a lip-chappingly cold Wednesday during the intersession, and campus is dead. The normally bustling stretch of Speedway between 21st Street...
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Texas Tea Leaves: Reading Governor-Elect Abbott on Higher Ed
On Jan. 20, Greg Abbott will take office as the Governor of Texas. Here’s what he’s said so far—and what others have said—about his agenda for higher...
Irregular Session
The 84th Texas Legislature is poised to begin another round of doing the people’s business, but will they give higher education the attention it requires before...
Up in the Air
The drone revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here. Can UT expertise help us navigate the future? The stadium was buzzing. It was a balmy day in...
UT Ranked 30th in World by U.S. News
Ranking universities is a complicated and sometimes controversial business. Over the years, colleges have come to be ranked on an ever-expanding variety of criteria...
Longhorn Who Popularized Hook ‘Em Hand Sign Dies
On a cool Friday evening in November 1955, then-Dean Arno Nowotny was upbraiding UT head cheerleader Harley Clark. What gives you the right to call something an...
Lawmakers, Regents, and—Aliens?: The Higher Ed Week in Review
The sometimes tense relationship between legislators and the UT System Board of Regents continued this week, as regents rebuked a request from a pair of lawmakers...
UT Presidential Search Committee Announced
UT System Board of Regents chair Paul Foster announced the members of UT-Austin’s presidential search committee today, naming 15 people to the panel charged...
McRaven is the Man: The Higher Ed Week in Review
This week, the UT System Board of Regents gathered in Austin for a two-day meeting intended to set the course for the coming year. Here are some of the decisions...
Censure Readings: The Higher Ed Week in Review
The Hall of Government This week began with the news that legislators were, after more than a year of investigation, taking action in the case of UT regent Wallace...
