The University of Texas System Board of Regents on Friday named University of Texas at Austin provost Gregory Fenves the sole finalist for the flagship’s presidency.
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Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Video: A Conversation With Clay Johnston
Full video of my 3/26 conversation with Clay Johnston, dean of the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School.
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Lawmakers Say Sports Shaped Their Political Careers
Five state lawmakers — all former college athletes — gathered at the University of Texas at Austin to talk about the parallels between athletics and governing and the lessons they learned from high school and college sports.
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Sources: Regents Poised to Name Fenves Head at UT-Austin
Gregory Fenves will likely be named the sole finalist to replace Bill Powers as president of the University of Texas at Austin this Friday, sources say. Fenves is currently the school’s provost.
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More Texans Earning Higher Ed Degrees, but Progress is Slow
More Texans are earning higher education degrees within six years of graduating from high school than ever before. But the year-over-year growth is painfully slow. And attainment is abysmal among poor black and Hispanic men.
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Updated: Our Higher Ed Outcomes Explorer
We’ve updated our Higher Education Outcomes app with two new years of data, showing the percentage of Texas eighth-graders — by county, ethnicity and other factors — who earned degrees or certificates within six years of graduating from high school.
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Leading Candidate Drops Out of UT President Search
The leading candidate to be the next president of the University of Texas at Austin, University of Oxford Vice Chancellor Andrew Hamilton, has been named the next president of New York University.
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Committee Approves Bill Restricting Regents’ Authority
A bill that reins in the power of university regents was approved by a Texas Senate committee Wednesday morning. A similar piece of legislation was vetoed last session.
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The Tribune’s Higher Ed Explorer Gets an Update
We’ve updated our Higher Ed Explorer, your go-to source for key statistics on how well Texas’ 148 public and private colleges and universities perform. This easy-to-navigate interactive database lets you explore key academic, enrollment and cost records on all of Texas’ institutions of higher learning.
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Deregulating Tuition Slowed Increase, Universities Say
Lawmakers riled up by higher education costs want to regain their control of setting tuition at state colleges and universities. But at most schools, tuition has gone up more slowly since the schools took over the job, a Tribune analysis shows.
