The state spent big to recruit professor Thomas Overbye to Texas A&M University. But lawmakers are questioning whether it should devote millions to make similar hires in the future.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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UTSA President Ricardo Romo resigns after sexual harassment investigation
In a statement, Romo said that he had been made aware that the way he embraced women “made them uncomfortable and was inappropriate.”
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Higher Education
Professor recruitment program — a top Abbott initiative — could lose funding
Draft budgets by both the Texas House and Senate have zeroed out funding for the Governor’s University Research Initiative, a project started by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2015.
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Higher Education
Most community colleges won’t ban guns in classrooms with minors
Some people hoped that community colleges would ban guns in any classroom that has students under 18. So far, that seems unlikely.
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Texas Rangers investigating sexual assault scandal at Baylor
The Texas Rangers have opened a preliminary investigation at Baylor University amid a lingering sexual assault scandal.
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Texas lawmakers call for financial sanctions in response to Baylor rape scandal
State Rep. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, called for a criminal investigation and state financial sanctions against Baylor University in response to the ongoing sexual assault scandal at the school.
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Senate panel takes step toward repealing college financial aid law
The Texas Senate Education Committee took an early step in the Senate’s efforts to eliminate a rule that forces universities to set aside a portion of tuition revenue to fund scholarships for the needy.
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Austin senator — a Baylor alum — takes aim at university sexual assault
Sen. Kirk Watson’s proposed bills would require universities to provide an anonymous online sexual assault reporting process and would prohibit administrators from punishing victims who reveal they were drinking underage at the time of an attack.
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Criminal Justice
Watch a film screening and discussion on the documentary Tower
The UT Tower shooting is infamous as America’s first mass school shooting. Meet the survivors and heroes of that day in “Tower,” an animated documentary film.
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UTSA President Romo placed on administrative leave pending “conduct review”
University of Texas at San Antonio President Ricardo Romo, who had been scheduled to retire in August, has been placed on administrative leave pending a “review of allegations related to his conduct.”
