The former vice chancellor at the University of Texas and former commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on his new book, how the tensions of the 1970s are echoed in today’s battles between politicians and academicians at the state’s major universities, and on what he thinks is at stake.
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Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Kenneth Ashworth: The TT Interview
In his new book, Horns of a Dilemma: Coping with Politics at the University of Texas, Kenneth Ashworth chronicles the era of controversial UT System Board of Regents Chairman Frank Erwin, of which he says there are echoes today.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Hamilton on Victoria’s efforts to divorce the University of Houston, Ramshaw on a disagreement between right-to-life groups over laws governing when life ends, E. Smith’s TribLive interview with Sen. Kel Seliger and Rep. Burt Solomons on redistricting, Aguilar’s interview with the mayor of Juárez, Tan on the continuing hunt for money to buy down budget cuts, Grissom on a psychologist who found more than a dozen inmates mentally competent to face the death penalty, Stiles and yours truly on the House redistricting maps and Galbraith on cutting or killing a tax break for high-cost natural gas producers: The best of our best content from April 11 to 15, 2011.
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Tier-One Prize Money Tentatively Passes House
For those betting on the horserace to be the next state’s next public national research — or tier-one — university, the winners are about to be crowned. Today, the House tentatively passed House Bill 1000, which creates a mechanism to claim the prize money.
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Video: Rick Perry on Higher Education
At a Thursday morning press conference, Gov. Rick Perry discussed his priorities on higher education, including a four-year tuition freeze, $10,000 degrees and outcomes-based funding.
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Student Leader Warns Against Turning UT Into ASU
One University of Texas student leader who recently visited Arizona State University as part of a university system task force was not encouraged by the excursion — and let the regents know in a new letter.
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Interactive: Higher Education Statistics
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has released the first-ever Texas Public Higher Education Almanac, a compilation of pertinent data on every public four-year and two-year institution. Here, you can investigate the data on four-year institutions for yourself.
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Rick O’Donnell: The Emails
With few exceptions, most hiring decisions at the University of Texas System go largely unnoticed. That has not been the case with Rick O’Donnell. Find key details of his hiring in our annotated collection of internal system documents.
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Higher Ed Coordinating Board Releases Almanac
Which public university in Texas has the lowest average student SAT scores? Which is the whitest? Which has the highest graduation rate? Starting today, the answers can be found easily in a new almanac.
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Is Academic Research Good for Texas?
Despite the dramatic tenor of the current debate, there appears to be near public unanimity in support of the broad concept of academic research. Drill down into specific types of research, however, and a deeper split is revealed.