Alisa Manning Peppers, BA ’90, Life Member, was surprised on her 50th birthday in October 2016 with a scholarship endowed in her name. Her husband of 23 years,...
A donor and a scholar in conversation
On a sunny day at Chuy’s in South Austin, two dear friends swapped stories about UT. In the short time since they met, Janelle...
The Forty Acres Scholars Program aims to attract top students by connecting them with alumni.
In 1899, just 14 years after 32 University of Texas alumni founded the...
In anticipation of her 100th birthday on Aug. 8, Margaret Berry, BA ’37, Life Member, Distinguished Alumna, penned an essay titled “Old Age is a Gift” in...
Four years after welcoming its inaugural class to campus, the Forty Acres Scholars Program watches its first graduates cross the stage.
For years, UT had been losing...
If you walk down the hallways of Conrad High School, you’ll hear as many as 35 languages being spoken. Most of the students at the northeast Dallas school...
Very few people find their life’s calling at age 7. Sarah Vogts is one of them.
When Sarah Vogts was a second-grader in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, she watched...
I always wanted to go to UT, but it was out of reach until I was awarded a Texas Exes scholarship.
As told to Rose Cahalan.
I was about 6 or 7 years old when my...
Scholarships are more often than not a nameless, faceless exchange: a donor writes a check, and eventually a student uses that money to fund an education.
Not so...
The Texas Exes Calhoun County Chapter recently presented two $2,000 scholarships to Calhoun County High School graduating seniors Thomas J. Baugh and James Hsu....
