At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp defended his efforts to implement the so-called margins tax in 2006.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Victor Boschini: The TT Interview
TCU’s 10th chancellor on the concerns of independent institutions in Texas, why it’s worth paying a high price for private higher education, and — to a very limited extent — the turmoil convulsing the college athletic conferences.
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Ken Starr, an Improbable Unifier, Presides Over Baylor University
Athletic conference instability has easily been the most significant struggle of Ken Starr’s first year as Baylor University president. Otherwise, he has thrived beyond expectations — something that even his critics happily concede.
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Higher Education
Liveblog: Public and Higher Education at The Texas Tribune Festival
We’ll be liveblogging throughout the weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival’s public and higher education track — which includes panels on the role research should play at state universities and how to pay for public education.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw, Root and Philpott track the governor on the campaign trail, Tan and Dehn on high school football concussions, and Murphy and yours truly on the partisan climates of each district under redistricting maps: The best of our content from Sept. 19 to 23.
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Higher Education
Updated: A&M Police Release Report on Kimbrough Firing
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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Higher Education
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.
