The University of Texas at Austin on Friday will announce a $60 million gift from the Mulva Family Foundation to support the university’s McCombs School of Business and Cockrell School of Engineering.
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For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measured
The results of UT-Austin’s first foray into massive open online courses are in. But advocates for the classes recommend looking beyond the fall completion rates — which range between 1 and 13 percent — to measure success.
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UT System: No Financial Return on $10 Million Investment
University of Texas System officials acknowledged this week that they’ll see no return on their $10 million investment in MyEdu, an Austin-based education software startup.
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Online Records, With a Hint of More to Come
The University of Texas System is publishing a little bit of public information online in a way that makes it obvious what it ought to do next.
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UT System Launches Interactive Salary and Debt Database
Touting it as a first-of-its-kind higher ed gadget, the UT System on Thursday launched a new interactive website that includes salary and debt information for graduates after one year and five years in the workforce.
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Report: UT Regent Didn’t Violate Student Privacy Laws
After reviewing University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall’s handling of information that may be confidential under federal student privacy laws, outside lawyers for the system concluded that no prosecution was warranted.
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University Leaders: Higher Ed Coming Out of Controversial Time
In 2012, Hunter Rawlings, the president of the Association of American Universities, warned that Texas was “ground zero” for a controversial push to make higher education more utilitarian. Now, his tone is more hopeful.
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UT System Reviewing Transparency Committee Directive
The University of Texas System says it is reviewing a recent list of directives from the legislative committee investigating one of the system’s regents and plans to respond before the Feb. 1 deadline.
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Dewhurst Seeks Study on Technology, Higher Education
Studying technology’s impact on higher education and evaluating public school students’ writing scores on state assessments are among the tasks Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst gave lawmakers in education-related interim charges Thursday.
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Search Continues for Performance-Funding Model for Higher Ed
In 2014, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is continuing its quest for a politically palatable model of performance-based funding for public universities.
