This week, members of a select legislative committee are returning to Austin from across the state to conduct a new round of hearings in the investigation of controversial...
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series recapping the Texas Exes legislative advocacy priorities. Throughout the 2013 legislature, UT Advocates were highly...
What’s the deal with student loan rates? And have people stopped going to college? Here’s a brief look at what happened this week in higher education.
President...
The House higher education chairman Dan Branch says Gov. Perry is listening to calls for campus construction to be added to the call.
The Texas House appropriations...
Despite passage by large, bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate, Gov. Rick Perry vetoed Senate Bill 15 on Friday afternoon. SB 15 would have more strictly...
Gov. Rick Perry has vetoed a bill intended to address legislators’ concerns with the behavior of some University of Texas regents.
Gov. Rick Perry vetoed...
With the clock ticking down on the special session, legislators are looking to avoid missing another deadline for university infrastructure projects—and they need...
As the regular session of the Texas Legislature lurched across the finish line Monday, lawmakers left behind a number of bills—including one that would fund UT’s...
Correction: An earlier version of this article erroneously said the the version of the bill that now heads to the governor preserved the cap even if the Fisher...
