Watch our interview with UT System Chancellor J.B. Milliken about the coronavirus outbreak’s lasting effects on higher education

We sat down for a live virtual event with University of Texas system chancellor J.B. Milliken to discuss how higher education institutions, including medical schools, have pivoted as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

By Staff, Texas Tribune Events StaffApril 16, 2020, 3:08 p.m. CentralApril 29, 2020, 6:22 p.m. Central

Texas Tribune multimedia reporter Alana Rocha sat down with J.B. Milliken, the chancellor of the University of Texas system, for a live discussion on how the UT System is responding to the coronavirus pandemic, the system’s rapid pivot to online instruction and how its medical schools and facilities are bracing to serve COVID-19 patients.

Here’s a look at some of Milliken’s responses to questions during the interview:

What will the fall semester look like for the UT System? Will athletic programs — including football — be reopened?

How have current university operations been impacted by the virus?

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What is being done to assist students in need right now? And how will this reshape the way the UT System approaches education for all students?

Milliken was named head of the University of Texas System in 2018. Previously, he served as chancellor of City University of New York, president of the University of Nebraska and senior vice president at the University of North Carolina.

The interview was streamed on the Tribune’s website, Facebook page and Twitter, as well as by our media partners at KXAN, KPRC2 and Community Impact to a live audience of more than 2800 viewers.

Disclosure: The University of Texas System, UT Southwestern Medical Center and the MD Anderson Cancer Center have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

This event is presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, AT&T, TEXAS 2036, Educate Texas, Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Coalition, Ascencion Seton and The University of Texas at Arlington. Media support is provided by KXAN and Community Impact.

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