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Hall to Saban’s Agent: Powers Won’t Last the Year

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University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall in January told the agent for Alabama football coach Nick Saban that UT-Austin President Bill Powers would be gone...

 
 

Perry Backs Hall, Criticizes Impeachment Probe

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Gov. Rick Perry, who has appointed each member of the UT System Board of Regents—and who once compared some of them to soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge—spoke...

 
 

UT Advocates Podcast: Powers Becomes AAU Chair

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UT president Bill Powers has been elected chairman of the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group of more than 60 North American research universities....

 
 

President Powers Named UC Berkeley’s Alumnus of the Year

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Today he is a nationally renowned scholar, administrator, and legal mind, but in 1963 UT president Bill Powers was just another wide-eyed college freshman hitting...

 
 

Rumor: DeLoss Dodds Will Announce Retirement Tomorrow

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The rumor mill is churning yet again about UT men’s athletic director DeLoss Dodds. In an article published by the Austin American-Statesman today, three...

 
 

SATs and Shutdowns: The Higher Ed Week in Review

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Many of the current debates over higher education revolve around the same basic questions: What should a university be? What should it teach? How should it teach...

 
 

The Big Yell: 5 UT Traditions Freshmen Should Know

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The Texas fight song, Wabash Cannonball, Smokey the Cannon—UT’s Class of 2017 learned it all at the second annual Big Yell! and Texas Football Town Hall,...

 
 

New Regents Chairman Pledges Support for Powers

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Will a new chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents mean a new day for the relationship between the regents and the president of the flagship? That’s...

 
 

A Most Poignant Farewell

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This article originally appeared in The Monitor. This is the season of high emotion for parents of college-bound kids. It’s a joyous moment in which we are filled...

 
 

Goodbye and Good Luck: Remembering Bill Livingston

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Many Texas Exes will remember William Livingston as the deep, warm voice of the TEX registration system, which helped students in the 1990s avoid crowded lines...

 
 
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