Editor’s Letter

 

Letter from the CEO: One of Our Own

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The meaningful life of JJ Baskin Just a few weeks before I became the executive director of the Texas Exes in July 2011, word got out that I was assuming the role,...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Boots on the Ground

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  When a global issue gets personal. It never felt like a war, not to me. From the confines of my life in Austin, what our deployed military personnel experienced...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Live and Learn

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Keep discovering long after you leave the Forty Acres. In the summer of 2001, I arrived at the University of Texas for orientation certain about what I wanted to...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Not Just for the Coffee Table

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Whatever you do, do not place this issue of the Alcalde onto your coffee table and forget about it. You should really read it all the way through. I know that the...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: A Case for Nuance

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A celebration of thoughtful reply. Of all an editor’s responsibilities, among the most thrilling and bedevilling is responding to reader comments. In my tenure...

 
 
We're Golden

We’re Golden: Alcalde Wins National Award

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Drumroll, please. We have some news to brag about … Last week I got an email from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the governing...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: All Fun, Some Games

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Infusing some play into your reading experience. Like anything else, putting together a magazine can get rote, if you let it. Keeping up the creative energy issue...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: The Story Behind the Texas 10

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Nominated by alumni, this list of inspiring teachers is unlike any other. Four years ago, the editors of this magazine wanted to celebrate excellent University of...

 
 

One for the Wall

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Best-case scenario, we make it until 2015 before the cover of this issue looks outdated. One of my favorite at-work distractions is browsing our wall of Alcalde...

 
 

Arctic Adventure

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When it comes to finding the best stories about The University of Texas at Austin, the Alcalde will go to the ends of the earth. For this issue’s cover story,...

 
 
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