Reporter Reeve Hamilton looks at meningitis vaccine requirements at colleges and universities.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Powers Confident UT-Austin “Will Prevail” in Admissions Case
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers expressed confidence Monday in the school’s admissions policy, after UT-Austin filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in response to a case questioning the role that race plays in its admissions process.
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Regents Approve Putting Health Science Center Under A&M University
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents today approved moving the administration of the system’s Health Science Center to Texas A&M University.
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Summer Camp Focuses on Fight Against Abortion
A two-week summer camp outside of Bryan helps high school students learn how to become effective anti-abortion advocates. Counselors teach campers to adopt a gentler, compassion-based form of persuasion.
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A&M System Chancellor to Announce New Research Fund
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp on Thursday will announce plans to earmark millions for recruiting and hiring to researchers at Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M University.
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A&M’s Outsourcing Plans Have Workers Concerned
Texas A&M University officials say that a plan to outsource support services would help the university raise $260 million in the next 10 years. But staff members who perform those services are expressing concerns.
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TACC Recommendations Target Next Legislative Session
Priorities outlined by the Texas Association of Community Colleges — a list it called its “most comprehensive” ever — emphasize areas like transfer policies between schools and sufficiently funding community colleges.
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Guy Bailey: The TT Interview
The outgoing president of Texas Tech University talks about tier-one status, the challenges and benefits of being in Lubbock, and football coach Mike Leach.
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Texas Weighs State-Based Alternative to GED Exam
Because of concerns over a partnership between the national organization that develops the GED and Pearson, a for-profit, London-based testing company, Texas may create its own high school equivalency exam.
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Texas Tech President Guy Bailey Leaving for Alabama
Texas Tech University President Guy Bailey is moving home. On Wednesday, the board of trustees at the University of Alabama officially hired the native Alabaman and alumnus as the institution’s next president.