Higher education

A 2018 report from the Texas Tribune found more than 4,200 people in the state — including security guards, cosmetologists and pharmacists – were at risk of losing their license because of student loan default in 2017.

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The final version of the bill is expected to require cities, counties and emergency service districts to hold an election before raising 3.5% more property tax revenue than the previous year. Community colleges and hospital districts would need to do so at 8%.

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“We look forward to your continued service as our president,” A&M System Chancellor John Sharp wrote in a letter to Young.

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Senate Bill 18 would require universities to create disciplinary sanctions for students who interfere with free speech activities. It would still allow universities to put restrictions on the time, place and manner of such activities.

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After it failed to move out of the House Higher Education Committee on Monday, a proposal to bring back the annual game seems all but dead.

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The medical school is projected to accept a class of 30 students for Fall 2020.

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A college student's research helped bring together community leaders to organize a public ceremony to tell Grover Everett’s story.

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Watch video of our conversation in Fort Worth on improving higher education outcomes, moderated by the Tribune's Shannon Najmabadi.

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Texas State University administrators and the student body president blocked the student senate's attempt to ban the conservative group Turning Point USA from campus.

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Congressional internships in Washington, D.C., have traditionally been unpaid. While some Texans in Congress have paid some of their interns in the past, those opportunities were not always well-publicized.

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Michael Center is accused of accepting a $100,000 bribe to help a student pose as a tennis recruit in order to get into school.

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A little-known and ill-defined provision in state statute offers big tax breaks to landowners who host university research on their property. Two lawmakers are trying — again — to close the "loophole."

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The changes to the new rating system — which gives districts a letter grade in three categories: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps — were finalized during the 2017 legislative session.

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The schools still need approval from the Texas Senate.

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Wilson is a former member of Congress and the secretary of the Air Force. Her nomination has generated backlash over her anti-LGBTQ voting record.

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Late last month, the University of Texas at Austin denied the Beto O'Rourke campaign's request to pass out flyers on campus. If Senate Bill 18 becomes law, the university would have had to grant permission.

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The House also signed off on a $9 billion supplemental budget that would withdraw $4.3 billion from the state savings account.

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Texas added Airbnb to a short list of companies that can’t receive state money because they boycott Israel, though Airbnb says it does not. Now, employees at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer stay in Airbnbs while on school business.

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Student activists, professors and community members have rallied to oppose Wilson's nomination, citing her anti-LGBTQ voting record.

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Hall led a heated battle to reform the school's admissions procedures, which led to reforms in 2015. But after a UT tennis coach was accused of taking a bribe to help a student gain admission, Hall says more needs to be done.

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