One of the Texas A&M students involved in the harassment of a group of minority high school students touring campus last month “is no longer associated with” the university, President Michael Young announced.
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Matthew Watkins began serving as editor in chief of the Tribune in September 2024. He is a Texas native, born in Houston and raised in Austin. He attended Texas A&M University and has spent his entire professional career in Texas journalism, including stints at The Eagle in Bryan-College Station and The Dallas Morning News. Matthew joined The Texas Tribune in 2015 has held various roles, including higher education reporter, breaking news editor and politics editor. He has helped guide the Tribune's award-winning journalism that has included coverage of six legislative sessions, multiple election cycles, natural disasters and political scandals. He lives in Austin with his wife, Susan, and their two children.
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Politics
Straus, and Most of His House Allies, Survive Challenges From Right
House Speaker Joe Straus sailed to victory in his re-election bid and he avoided a significant net loss in fights between hard right conservatives and his lieutenants elsewhere in the state.
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Criminal Justice
UH Task Force: Ban Guns in All But One Residence Hall
A task force at the University of Houston has recommended in a draft campus carry policy that guns be banned in all residence halls on campus, except one.
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Higher Education
UT Regents Approve Tuition Hikes Across System
The University of Texas at Austin and all seven other schools in the University of Texas System won approval to increase tuition Monday, a move that will eventually tack on between $148 and $361 to the cost of students’ schooling each semester.
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Benson Named President of UT-Dallas
Richard Benson, the dean of the engineering school at Virginia Tech University, has been named the next president of the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Higher Education
UT Architecture Dean Cites Campus Carry as a Reason for Departure
The University of Texas at Austin’s longtime architecture dean announced he was leaving on Thursday, saying the state’s new campus carry law played a major role in pushing him out.
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Higher Education
University of Houston Basks in Debate Spotlight
Few students will get in, but the University of Houston hopes to make the most out of its host duties during Thursday’s GOP presidential debate.
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Higher Education
UT-Austin President: Guns to be Allowed in Classrooms, Not Dorms
Save for some narrow exceptions, guns will be allowed in classrooms but not in dorms at the University of Texas at Austin next school year under guidelines issued Wednesday.
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Criminal Justice
Baylor Opts Out of Campus Carry
Baylor University has opted out of Texas’ campus carry law, joining the long list of Texas private universities that have decided to continue banning handguns on their campuses.
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Immigration
Scalia’s Death Impacts Texas Cases at U.S. Supreme Court
The late Antonin Scalia might well have been on the side of Texas conservatives in four cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
