With varying degrees of concern, a smattering of government offices and institutions around the state are waiting to learn the fate of more than $200 million in funds that the governor might — or might not — have excised from the state budget.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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To Build Student Housing, Texas A&M Looks to the Private Sector
Texas A&M is partnering with an Irving company and a nonprofit corporation to add 3,400 beds’ worth of housing near campus. School officials estimate it could generate hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Program Aims to Give College Credit Where it’s Due
Across Texas, tens of thousands of students have earned enough college credit for an associate degree without knowing it. A new project led by the University of Texas at Austin hopes to track them down.
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New State Goal: 60 Percent of Adults With a Degree By 2030
With an eye on keeping up with demographic changes and competing with other states and countries, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has adopted a new goal: Get 60 percent of Texans between 25 and 34 a postsecondary degree by 2030.
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UT System: Hall Doesn’t Have Right to Sue McRaven
The University of Texas System, seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from Regent Wallace Hall against Chancellor William McRaven, says in a court filing that Hall is, in short, suing McRaven “for refusing to violate federal and state privacy laws.”
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Waller County DA: Bland’s Death Won’t Be “Swept Under the Rug”
As Waller County authorities vowed on Friday to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of Sandra Bland, who was found hanged at the county jail, the Texas Department of Public Safety moved forward on a separate inquiry into how arrest procedures were violated in the case.
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UT Biomedical Research Turning More to Private Funds
The UT System announced a deal on Thursday accepting up to $2.4 million a year from the pharmaceutical company Sanofi to fund biomedical research. As government research money dwindles, private funds are playing a larger role, and that comes with worries.
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UT, Mexico Sign Deal to Collaborate on Research
The Mexican government signed a deal with the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday that will bring some of that country’s top science and technology researchers to work temporarily in Austin.
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Former Morning News Editor to Lead UNT-Dallas
Bob Mong, the recently retired longtime editor of The Dallas Morning News, has been tapped as the next president of the University of North Texas at Dallas.
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Colleges Heighten Focus on Sexual Assaults
A combination of publicity, heightened scrutiny and a new state law is leading colleges across the state to place more emphasis than ever on preventing and responding to sexual assault.
