We’re liveblogging the sessions from the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival’s Environment track. The sessions include panels on the state’s water needs, the Texas coast, agriculture in the state and Texas’ battles with the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Liveblog: Higher Ed at The Tribune Festival
We’re liveblogging the sessions from the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival’s Higher Education track. The sessions include panels on progress on the “Closing the Gaps” plan, the completion crisis, the state of community colleges and the affordability of higher education.
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Health care
The Brief: Sept. 19, 2014
In the run-up to tonight’s first televised debate between the two leading candidates for governor — Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis — as much attention is being paid to the setting of the encounter as the substance.
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Letters Routed Through UT Chancellor’s Office Released
In response to an open records request, the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday released dozens of recommendation letters written by lawmakers and other individuals that were initially sent to University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa.
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A&M System Launches Think Tank With Eye on Guiding State Policy
The Texas A&M University System’s board of regents has approved the establishment of the cryptically named Area 41 Institute — a think tank it hopes will play a significant role in legislative policymaking.
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Health care
The Brief: Sept. 17, 2014
State leaders seem reluctant to break out the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the border surge even though apprehensions of illegal immigrants have hit a target goal laid out in July.
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Nicole Guidotti-Hernández: The TT Interview
The chairwoman of the new Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, which has been heralded as the first of its kind, talks about why it was created and what jobs its graduates will likely get.
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Energy
The Brief: Sept. 16, 2014
University of Texas System regents moved quickly Monday to keep two lawmakers from sitting in on interviews conducted by an external investigator into admissions procedures at the system’s flagship Austin campus.
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UT Board: Lawmakers May Not Observe Investigation
At a special meeting of the University of Texas System regents on Monday, the board unanimously voted to keep lawmakers out of the room during an investigation into alleged political influence in admissions at UT-Austin.
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The Brief: Sept. 15, 2014
At stake, according to a posted agenda for today’s meeting of the UT System regents, is “the integrity and independence” of an external investigation of admissions procedures.
