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Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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UT/TT Poll: Few Texas voters believe education spending is too high
A plurality of Texas voters think the state should be spending more on public and higher education, but those numbers hide differences between conservatives and liberals, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Higher Education
Prairie View A&M names Ruth Simmons, the former leader of Brown, interim president
Ruth Simmons, the longtime president of Brown University, has been named interim president of Prairie View A&M University.
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Higher Education
Prairie View A&M President George Wright says he’s stepping down
Prairie View A&M University President George Wright is stepping down after 14 years. He says he will return to the school’s faculty and focus on research.
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Higher Education
How Baylor’s new president plans to move the school past scandal
“We are a different university than we were one, two, three, five years ago,” says Baylor President Linda Livingstone, who aims to help the school move past its recent sexual assault scandal while turning it into a tier one research school.
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Higher Education
In a year of cuts, the Texas Legislature boosted financial aid for college students
Lawmakers voted to increase funding for the state’s top college financial aid program by 10 percent. That means the share of students who qualify for the program but don’t get it due to a lack of funding will be cut in half.
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Higher Education
McRaven on his UT System future: “I want to see the direction the board is going”
With about half a year left on his contract, University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven said no decision has been made about his future of his job. “I have to find out if the board wants me to stay,” he said.
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Higher Education
In the Texas Capitol this year, university leaders’ worst fears never materialized
University leaders were worried about tuition freezes, funding cuts and other major changes this past legislative session. For the most part, they didn’t happen.
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Higher Education
Lawmakers vote to fund veterinary medicine at Texas Tech
The Texas Tech University’s plans for a veterinary school were “on pause” when the legislative session began. But lawmakers voted Saturday to allocate $4.1 million for the project.
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Higher Education
When UT denied this valedictorian, she got it to change admissions rules
Madison Mau is valedictorian of her tiny high school’s senior class, but the University of Texas denied her anyway. Unwilling to accept that result, she lobbied the school to change its admissions policy.
