The Texas A&M University Police Department has released its report regarding the termination of A&M System Deputy Chancellor Jay Kimbrough, who displayed a knife while he was being fired.
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Will Troubles Cut Deep for Perry Troubleshooter?
Gov. Rick Perry’s go-to problem solver, Jay Kimbrough, could have chosen a more inconvenient time to take out his pocket knife in response to his firing from the Texas A&M University System, whose flagship university is Perry’s alma mater. But maybe not much more.
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Energy
Katharine Hayhoe: The TT Interview
The Texas Tech climate scientist and author of A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions on why why working in Texas, a state full of both prominent climate skeptics and extreme weather, is an “opportunity.”
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Higher Education
Higher Ed Oversight Committee Revisits “Solutions”
At today’s hearing of the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency, experts weighed in on how — and how not — to make universities in Texas more accountable and transparent.
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Born Out of Controversy, New Higher Ed Committee Gets to Work
Today brings the latest step in the state’s ongoing higher education debate: the inaugural hearing of the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency.
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Watson Outlines Plan for Medical School in Austin
In a much-anticipated speech this afternoon to the Real Estate Council of Austin, state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, outlined his plan for the development of a medical school in Austin. “This is the moment,” he said.
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UT Reports Record Hispanic Enrollment
The University of Texas at Austin reports that its Hispanic enrollment has hit a record high this year. Nathan Bernier of KUT News has a closer look at the figures and what they mean for the state’s efforts to close achievement gaps.
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UT Regents Give Powers Authority to Tackle Conference Realignment
The University of Texas System regents today gave UT President Bill Powers the authority to take any necessary actions regarding conference realignment, another step in the university’s possible departure from the Big 12.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson on the rise in the state’s unemployment rate, Aguilar on the push to mandate use of an electronic employment verification program, Galbraith on fears about the drought’s impact on lake levels, Grissom on the latest in the Duane Buck case, Hamilton on the possible end of physics (academically speaking), Murphy updates our public employee pay app, Ramsey on David “Mitt” Dewhurst, Ramshaw on Rick Perry’s campaign swing through Virginia and Iowa, Root on the deletion of gubernatorial emails and M. Smith on the teaching of safe sex where you’d least expect it: The best of our best content from Sept. 12-16, 2011.
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Mike Leach: The TT Interview
The former Texas Tech football coach on his pending lawsuit against the university, how the state’s doing at educating student athletes and what happens if the Big 12 falls apart.