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Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Health care
TribBlog: Doctors-in-Residence
Lawmakers must fund more in-state medical residency slots if Texas wants to ward off a looming physician shortage, the presidents of the six University of Texas medical centers told the UT System Board of Regents on Wednesday.
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Higher Education
Brian McCall: The TT Interview
The longtime House member from Plano and newly installed chancellor of the Texas State University System (sorry, Sen. Wentworth) talked to the Tribune on Thursday about why he took the job, the importance of Hispanic outreach, the case against cutting the state’s higher ed budget, the trouble with the Legislature and what a good governor shouldn’t do.
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Higher Education
Brian McCall: Audio Clip
Audio highlights of the TT interview with Brian McCall, chancellor of TSUS
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Demographics
Obamarama
In his first trip to the Texas capital as president, Barack Obama served up little news but plenty of red meat for supporters. Check out our pool report from his fundraiser and our audio, video and slideshow of his UT-Austin speech.
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Higher Education
Obama: “It’s Good To Be Back”
Watch the start of President Barack Obama’s Monday speech at the University of Texas.
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Higher Education
Obama Talks Higher Ed
President Obama wrapped up a trip to Austin this afternoon with a speech on higher education on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Higher Education
Learnstrong
Can a $3 million marketing campaign to promote higher education change the culture of a country-sized state in which just 27 percent of the population has a college degree or certificate? It worked for cancer …
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Higher Education
A Court Date for Hopwood 2.0
A panel of federal judges will hear arguments today for and against the University of Texas at Austin’s race-based admissions system, which the school has used for decades as part of what its “holistic” admissions program. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Minding the Gaps
With two-thirds now over, it’s time to check in on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s 10-years old, 15-year initiative to close the gaps between Texas and other states in student achievement in higher education.