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Talk Back: Responses to our September|October Issue

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{November | December 2012} Jeff Wilson’s everything-but-the-football photo essay of the spectacle that is UT gameday brought the Longhorn spirit flooding in (“Beyond...

 
 

A House United

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UT in its 129th Year: Better and More Efficient This time last year, not all was content in The University of Texas at Austin community. At his 2011 State of the...

 
 

Texas, Still Wildcatting

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A wood and iron platform crouches on a triangle of The University of Texas campus frequented only on six Saturdays each fall. This creaky sculpture has taken on...

 
 

Guest Column: Colleges Should Use Race in Admissions

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This column first appeared in the Texas Tribune. The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, in which the University...

 
 

Guest Column: Race Has No Place In College Admissions

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This column first appeared in the Texas Tribune. The issue presented by Fisher v. University of Texas is whether a state university should give preference to some...

 
 

Horns Hoo-rah

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When I met my first four-star general, a UT grad, I was shell-shocked. I expected a dull ceremony and a bureaucrat full of platitudes. But Gen. Bob Cone, MA ’87,...

 
 

A Medical School Could Change the Game

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Institutions, like people, have defining moments. These are times when a decision reverberates in ways that only become clear decades later. The University of Texas...

 
 

Consider Class-Based Admissions

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For five decades now, higher education leaders have been talking up the value of diversity. Students from different backgrounds challenge each other’s ideas,...

 
 

Alive, Vigilant, Vital

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Texas Exes Stand Up for a University of the First Class For 127 years, Texas Exes have served as champions of The University of Texas. On occasion, we have reminded...

 
 
Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

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{ May | June 2012 } “The ‘D’ Word” Our cover story on drought prompted everything from praise to complaint to a down-home Texas comeback. Juli Berwald called...

 
 
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