Archive for: funding

 

As States Cut Funding, Public Universities Rethink Budgets

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Only 12 percent of UT-Austin’s funding comes from the state, down from 47 percent in 1984, part of a nationwide trend. According to the American Academy...

 
 
Outcomes TxExplainer: The 2017 Legislative Session Is Over. So Now What??

Is Outcomes Funding Incoming?

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The Governor of Texas has endorsed it, as have powerful members of the legislature from both parties. Universities have, over time, come to endorse it, too. And...

 
 
Abbott Lists Research Funding Among Emergency Items

Abbott Lists Research Funding Among Emergency Items

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A State of the State address, like the better-known State of the Union, is a commonplace civic ritual. Like its federal counterpart, the address is ostensibly used...

 
 

UT to Cut Funding for Texas Memorial Museum

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The Texas Memorial Museum has been a campus institution since it first opened its doors in 1939, drawing students and locals alike to see dinosaur bones, fossils,...

 
 

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....

 
 

Meet Robert Messing, New UT Med School Vice Provost

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Now that funding for UT-Austin’s new medical school has been secured, University administrators face the monumental task of building a new school from the...

 
 

UT, A&M Among Nation’s Best Values: Report

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Can a university engaged in world-changing research truly educate undergraduate students? A new study finds that UT-Austin (and Texas A&M) is doing just that. Every...

 
 

Study: Public Universities in Peril

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State funding for public research universities plummeted by 20 percent in the last decade, says a study released today by the National Science Board. The study...

 
 

Some Things Change—But UT’s Great Value Doesn’t

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William O’Hara, BBA ’68, Life Member, a lecturer in the McCombs School of Business, explains why UT has always been a great value—and why alumni support...

 
 

UT Considers Campus-Wide Tobacco Ban

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We know smoking is bad for your health, but it may be equally bad for UT’s pocketbook starting March 1. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas...

 
 
 
 
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