A student organization at Gov. Rick Perry’s alma mater, Texas A&M, has started a petition requesting that the governor immediately call a special legislative session to end in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Research Into Heat, Bleeding May Help Soldiers, Others
Researchers in Dallas hope their clinical tests will improve care for soldiers in the Middle East and even for construction workers, firefighters and other outdoor workers who sustain bleeding injuries in the Texas summer heat.
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Higher Education
The Business of Being a University Chancellor
Why do Texas colleges hire former lawmakers to run the show? It’s because the key trait for a new chancellor is the ability to attract money, both from donors and from the Legislature.
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2011 Texas Tribune Festival Keynote: Margaret Spellings
Full video of the keynote speech by former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings in the Public and Higher Education track at the 2011 Texas Tribune Festival.
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Higher Ed Officials Tout Student Loan Amendment
Higher education officials are making the case for passing an amendment to the Texas Constitution that would allow the state to continue its low-interest student loan program.
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Higher Education
Hunter Rawlings: The TT Interview
Hunter Rawlings, the president of the Association of American Universities, on Texas’ higher education controversy, how to get more students engaged in math and science, and whether any other Texas schools will qualify to be members of the AAU.
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Demographics
A Texas Sensibility That Doesn’t Travel Well
Rick Perry’s in-state-tuition troubles have a lot to do with the difference between politics in Texas and politics everywhere else.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson on the shrinking of state government, Aguilar on the controversy over in-state tuition for the children of undocumented immigrants, Galbraith on Rick Perry vs. the EPA, Grissom on a startling development in a 25-year-old murder case, Hamilton on Ken Starr’s first year as president of Baylor, Ramsey on what inmates have to do with redistricting, Ramshaw on the state’s crisis in insurance coverage, Root on Perry’s presidential grind dance and Smith on obstacles to addressing childhood obesity: The best of our best content from Sept. 26-30, 2011.
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Higher Education
TribLive: Sharp on A&M and the SEC
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp talked about the school’s recent decision to bolt the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.
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TribLive: Sharp on In-State Tuition for Immigrants
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp defended the state law allowing college-bound children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.
