UPDATED: Records requests that University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall filed with the University of Texas at Austin were the subject of hours of testimony Tuesday afternoon during a legislative committee hearing.
Higher Education
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Texas A&M Will Open “Peace” Campus in Israel
On Wednesday in Jerusalem, Gov. Rick Perry, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp and Israeli President Shimon Peres will announce plans for an Aggie campus in Nazareth.
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Testimony to Begin in Impeachment Probe of UT Regent Wallace Hall
Long-awaited hearings begin Tuesday that could advance the ball toward resolution of a long-standing feud between the University of Texas System and the Legislature.
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UT-Austin Announces Major Gift to College of Communication
The University of Texas at Austin announced on Monday a $50 million gift from the Moody Foundation to its College of Communication, which will be renamed the Moody College of Communication.
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MD Anderson Enlists IBM Supercomputer to Fight Cancer
Representatives from the MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM on Friday announced their collaboration on a project that uses a supercomputer to cull big data to help physicians recommend treatments for cancer patients.
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Willeford: Perry “Going After” UT-Austin, Powers
In an email blast to friends, Pamela Willeford, a former chair of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, waded into the perceived ongoing fight between UT-Austin and Gov. Rick Perry.
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Hance to Retire as Texas Tech Chancellor
UPDATED: Kent Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System since 2006, said he will retire next year and become chairman emeritus, officing on Tech’s Lubbock campus and continuing to teach a seminar on leadership.
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TribuneFest: Audio From the Higher Education Track
The higher education track at The Tribune Festival featured discussions about the future of higher education, what’s happening at non-flagship universities, the role of regents and whether to pay student-athletes. You can hear the sessions here.
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Public Perception is a Major Challenge for the University of Houston
For University of Houston President Renu Khator, the biggest challenge in her ongoing effort to raise the institution’s reputation may be the public perception that it is merely a commuter campus in the middle of a dangerous urban area.
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Committee’s Co-chairs Respond to Simpson’s Concerns
In a letter to state Rep. David Simpson, the co-chairs of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations wrote that if he wanted to attend the committee’s executive sessions, he would need to take it up with the House parliamentarian.
