Professors and instructors say the university is preemptively censoring itself after administrators removed references to race and equity in dozens of College of Education course titles and descriptions.
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Texas names new higher education chief
Wynn Rosser will be in charge of guiding the state’s postsecondary education policies. He currently leads a foundation focused on rural East Texas and previously worked at Texas A&M.
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Higher Education
Texas colleges pitch quick credentials as a first step toward higher wages. But students often fall off the path.
Short-term certificates can only take a few weeks to get but don’t always lead to better earnings or higher degrees.
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Higher Education
Gov. Greg Abbott wants to freeze tuition at Texas colleges and universities for another two years
The governor’s directive extends a tuition freeze for Texas’ public universities that was approved in the last legislative session.
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LGBTQ+ Texans
Texas A&M regents overrule faculty, cut 52 “low-producing” programs including LGBTQ+ studies minor
After conservative criticism over the LGBTQ+ minor, university officials started looking at all its programs. Faculty say they were excluded from the process.
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Higher Education
Texas State University condemns demonstrators who brought offensive signs to campus
The university is exploring potential legal responses after two men came on campus the day after the election with misogynistic and homophobic signs.
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2024 Texas Elections
In South Texas, university students accuse Democratic county officials of suppressing their votes
The county decided to not have an early voting site at a Laredo university because of historic low turnout. It will have one on Election Day.
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Higher Education
A community college could transform the Lockhart area. Will voters approve it?
Residents of a rural Texas school district decide in November whether to expand Austin Community College’s reach.
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2024 Texas Elections
Texas judge accused of breaking law after asking his university students to vote for him
A candidate running against the judge accused him of emailing his students at Texas State to vote for him. State law prohibits using public resources for political advertising.