May | June 2014

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Students, Educators, and Lawmakers Must All Do Their Part

By Drew Darby

Most Texans agree with the push to increase graduation rates at our state universities. UT-Austin has set an admirable goal of a 70 percent four-year graduation...

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Why Indecisiveness Can Be a Good Thing

By Brent L. Iverson

Do high school seniors know what they want to study in college? Looking back, how many of us got it right? The School of Undergraduate Studies combines career counseling...

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UT’s Grade on Graduation Rates? ‘I’ For Incomplete

By Charles Miller

On one of the most crucial measures of a top university’s success, four-year graduation rates, UT-Austin’s grade is ‘incomplete.’ And if not for the recent...

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Exposing Freshmen to Research Boosts Graduation Rates

By Sarah Simmons

Increasing the number and quality of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates emerging from the U.S. higher education system is critical to improving...

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Gone From Texas

By Tim Taliaferro

Rising student debt, record numbers of applicants, flat appropriations from the state, and an economy that increasingly demands advanced degrees. These factors are...

May|June Alumni Authors

By Alcalde Staff

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri: Closer To Wildness By Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, BFA ’83 Hardwicke is an Oregon-based painter whose work delves into the interactions...

Eyes Right

By Prudence Mackintosh

One Texas Ex remembers her time in a 1960s student club at the intersection of ROTC and beauty pageants: the Cordettes. On  the wall leading to my upstairs office...

If You Build It, They Will Come

By Rose Cahalan

How a small-town chapter built a big-name speaker series. On a Texas map, San Angelo is a lonesome dot 200 miles northwest of Austin and 100 miles east of Midland....

Cold Plunge

By John Fitch

Earlier this year, 17 intrepid Flying Longhorns went to the end of the Earth to experience the frosty, fantastic wonders of Antarctica. Our multimedia producer traveled...

Find Your Way Home

By Charles Matthews

Every May, the University of Texas at Austin celebrates the graduation of thousands of students with a party that has few equals. The Tower lights up that beautiful...