College leaders blame strict requirements initially handed down by the state. “It was like we were on a hunt for a unicorn,” one spokesperson said.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Jury awards professor $3 million in pregnancy and sex discrimination suit against UT-Austin
A jury awarded Evdokia Nikolova damages for past and future pain and suffering after finding UT-Austin illegally discriminated against her when the school denied her tenure.
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Prairie View A&M President Ruth Simmons to step down
Simmons also served as president of Smith College in Massachusetts and Brown University, where she was the first Black woman to preside over an Ivy League school.
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University of Texas Medical Branch names school for 19th-century Galveston magnate John Sealy
Sealy and his family have donated more than $1 billion over the past 100 years to UTMB and its medical institutions.
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Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp orders school leaders to sever research ties with Russian entities
The chancellor instructed universities and agencies in the system to dissolve all agreements, especially those related to academics, research and intellectual property.
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Third fired professor claims in federal lawsuit that Collin College is censoring political speech
The professor alleges the school violated his First Amendment rights when he advocated for the removal of Confederate statues and criticized the college’s COVID-19 plans.
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A former professor files free speech lawsuit against Collin College over tweets about Mike Pence
The lawsuit filed this week is the second free speech lawsuit filed against the North Texas community college in two months. In separate filings, both professors claim that their First Amendment rights were violated for public statements they made outside the classroom.
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UT begins $6 billion fundraising campaign, biggest ever among Texas universities
About $1 billion will go to support students, as the cost of living in Austin skyrockets.
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UT-Austin can’t call its new think tank The Liberty Institute. Another group already owns the rights to the name.
First Liberty Institute, a Plano-based religious freedom legal group, has a registered trademark for the name and said it has alerted UT-Austin that it objects to them using it.
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TribCast: Texas politicians make their final push ahead of March 1 primary
On this week’s episode, Patrick Svitek and Kate McGee discuss the last push in some of the most interesting primary races on the ballot. But first, we discuss Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s proposal targeting tenure at public universities.
