Students of both parties see voter participation as vital in the battleground county, where GOP officials almost closed polls at several campuses.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Nearly half of Texas high school students who earn college credits are Hispanic, study says
Despite the group’s strong participation, Hispanic students graduate college at a lower rate than peers in the program, according to a report.
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Driven by high demand, hundreds of websites offering affordable college paper writing services have emerged in the past ten years. But how many of those sites are legit and reliable?
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Texas students can now see which state public universities would accept them before they apply
Students can enter their class rank, grade point average, and standardized test scores to get a list of universities to which they’d be admitted.
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Texas students with immigrant parents lost out on college aid because of FAFSA glitch
The glitch kept the students from submitting the form on time, which put them last in line to receive aid this year.
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Texas A&M International University president dies
Pablo Arenaz died unexpectedly Thursday night, according to a university statement. He served as president of the university in Laredo for eight years.
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The Holdsworth Center launches conversation series on leadership
At Place the Ladder events, hear inspiring discussions with dynamic leaders moderated by Holdsworth President Dr. Lindsay Whorton
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UT-Austin tightens automatic admission threshold to 5% of Texas’ top high schoolers
The current threshold is 6%. The change comes after the university received a record-breaking 73,000 undergraduate applications for this fall.
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GOP bid to remove polling sites from Tarrant County college campuses fails
County Judge Tim O’Hare said he proposed the cuts to save costs. Critics accused Republican leaders of suppressing the vote of young people who back Democrats.
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Dan Patrick asks Senate to consider bills to unmask protesters, change runoff elections
The new list includes many right-wing priorities, and would escalate Republicans’ wars against diversity, equity and inclusion programs and review laws to keep noncitizens off voter rolls.
