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The Big Idea: Academic Assembly

Self-styled reformers advocate a corporate approach to higher education that de-emphasizes research in the name of churning out more degrees faster and on the cheap.

 
 

For All Texas-kind

Incoming Texas Exes president Machree Gibson wants to showcase UT’s value to the whole state. (more…)

 
 

Class Struggle

Would ‘breakthrough solutions’ like treating students as customers help or hurt UT on its quest to become a university of the first class? The Legislature...

 
 
Pressing Forward

Pressing Forward

By the time you’re reading this, you will have no doubt noticed that your trusty old Alcalde looks quite different. For the first time in more than a decade, it...

 
 
New Coalition Aims To Block Controversial Higher Education Reforms

New Coalition Aims To Block Controversial Higher Education Reforms

More than 200 prominent Texans have banded together to stop Gov. Rick Perry’s controversial reform agenda for higher education, the group announced today. The...

 
 

Culture Mavens Argue For More Art Support At Texas Exes Austin Professionals Event (Watch)

In an age of looming budget cuts, arts program are often first on the chopping block. That’s why it’s more important than ever to support and defend...

 
 
Leslie Cedar Named New Executive Director, CEO Of The Texas Exes

Leslie Cedar Named New Executive Director, CEO Of The Texas Exes

It’s official: we at the Texas Exes have a new boss. Leslie Cedar, BS ’89, MBA ’98, Life Member, a Silicon Valley executive, has been named the...

 
 
First Forty Acres Scholars Chose Texas Over Harvard, Yale, And Just About Everywhere Else

First Forty Acres Scholars Chose Texas Over Harvard, Yale, And Just About Everywhere Else

Last week, the Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation announced the inaugural class of the Forty Acres Scholars program, amazingly the University’s first true...

 
 

UT Professor Discovers New Fossil Primate Species In West Texas

Can’t see this slideshow? Click here. “Great discoveries are waiting in our own backyards,” says Chris Kirk. He should know. Kirk, an associate...

 
 
Vince Young, Returning To Finish His Degree, Challenges Texans To Go To College (Watch)

Vince Young, Returning To Finish His Degree, Challenges Texans To Go To College (Watch)

Meet NFL Quarterback Vince Young from Generation TX on Vimeo. Favored son Vince Young has returned to Texas and to UT to finish his degree in education. In a new...

 
 
 
 
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