
HOUSTON, Texas – Merry Christmas, Y’all, Texas Style!, a book by a Texas state representative and a former staffer, takes you through Santa’s journey through the Lone Star state. The book is a Christmas poetry treasure with a touch of Texas swing.
by Lana Shadwick24 Dec 2015, 4:47 AM PST0

As Gun Free UT suggests that campus carry is all about whites dominating people of other races, UT-Dallas graduate student Antonia Okafor — an African American woman — counters by pointing out that her focus in carrying a gun will be self-defense, not to advance the supremacy of any one race over another.
by AWR Hawkins18 Nov 2015, 4:30 AM PST0

On November 10 the Los Angeles Times reported that some universities in Texas are assessing how and where they can create gun free zones to keep law-abiding students with concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) from carrying guns for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Nov 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

“My All American,” written by the same screenwriter as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers,” is about the short life of “Game of the Century” University of Texas football safety Freddie Joe Steinmark. Steinmark, who died at the age of 22 of cancer, was a member of the 1969 UT National Champion and Cotton Bowl Classic winning football team.
by Lana Shadwick3 Nov 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

The University Interscholastic League (UIL) will ask the school superintendents in Texas to vote on using a birth certificate to determine a student-athlete’s gender. The founder of the group TransAthlete.com cries foul, saying the proposed rule denies equal access to transgendered students.
by Lana Shadwick26 Oct 2015, 8:08 AM PST0

A group of anti-Second Amendment students is launching a protest at the University of Texas by which they plan to show their disapproval of campus carry by carrying sex toys in plain sight on the same day that carrying a concealed weapon in class becomes legal.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

An economics professor emeritus from the University of Texas in Austin has resigned. His reason expressed in a resignation letter, a fear that law abiding students with a concealed handgun might shoot him.
by Bob Price8 Oct 2015, 6:53 AM PST0

On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.
by AWR Hawkins31 Aug 2015, 5:57 PM PST0

After multiple acts of vandalism and contentious Twitter campaigns, The University of Texas at Austin held a public forum last week to receive public input on the campus confederate statues and continues to close in on a decision regarding the statues’ future.
by Cassi Pollock14 Jul 2015, 7:08 AM PST0

On June 23, another wave of vandalism hit the University of Texas. The vandals defaced three statues of Confederate leaders.
by Cassi Pollock24 Jun 2015, 7:29 AM PST0

The fight to remove the statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, resumed this past week with added vigor as UT faculty, alumni, and students took to Twitter in force.
by Cassi Pollock22 Jun 2015, 3:15 PM PST0

June 2nd marked the final day of William Powers Jr. serving as president at The University of Texas system.
by Cassi Pollock3 Jun 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

With Campus Carry legislation coming before the Texas House this week, University of Texas Chancellor Bill McRaven submitted a letter to state representatives describing campus carry as “conduct” that could hurt UT by dissuading new professors from coming in, thereby making the university system less competitive.
by AWR Hawkins26 May 2015, 4:33 AM PST0

The Texas Attorney General issued an Attorney General Opinion on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 favorable to University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall. The opinion states that a university cannot prohibit individual regents from having access to copies of university records unless a state or federal law provides otherwise.
by Lana Shadwick12 May 2015, 4:24 PM PST0

University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall has requested an Attorney General Opinion less than one month after he was rebuked but not indicted by a Travis County Grand Jury. Hall requested the opinion on the authority of the University of Texas Board of Regents to prohibit a regent from accessing University records. He requested records from the investigation by Kroll Associates into University admission practices. The findings were released in February. The Regent has been in a battle with University leaders and Texas legislators over his inquiries into the admissions practices at the University.
by Lana Shadwick21 Apr 2015, 2:42 PM PST0

Alight, alright, alright…
The University of Houston is paying Matthew McConaughey $135,000 to deliver a commencement speech to its graduating class of May 2015.
by Kelli Serio2 Apr 2015, 4:00 PM PST0

As the University of Texas debuted its new Latino Leadership Award, it was announced that the first winner would be newly-elected Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush.
by Warner Todd Huston31 Mar 2015, 5:52 PM PST0

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law ranked 15th among law schools rated by U.S. News and World Report in their 2016 Best Law Schools. The UT School of Law was also the top ranked law school in Texas. A number of other Texas law schools were also included in the top tier. Yale University ranked highest, and Harvard University and Stanford University tied for second.
by Sarah Rumpf11 Mar 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

When the dust settled in the University of Illinois clout abuse scandal, not only were the institution’s president and regents fired, but a statewide officeholder, the house speaker, a state senator, a congressman, and two state representatives found themselves in hot water and their political careers in ruins. Texas legislators should pay attention.
by Michael Quinn Sullivan17 Feb 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

After a long day of debate and passionate public testimony from both sides, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee has voted to recommend that the Texas Senate pass both SB 11, the “campus carry” bill, and SB 17, the “open carry” bill. Both bills now head to the full Texas Senate for consideration. The vote came just before 6:00 pm Central Time on Thursday.
by Sarah Rumpf12 Feb 2015, 4:43 PM PST0

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp told Lt. Governor Dan Patrick he has no objection to the Campus Carry Bill now pending in the State Senate. In a letter to the Lt. Governor, Sharp wrote, “I have complete trust and faith in our students.”
by Bob Price12 Feb 2015, 9:30 AM PST0

An email message was sent to the entire faculty of the University of Texas at Austin on a university listserv Tuesday morning encouraging them to oppose a “campus carry” bill being considered by the Texas Senate, SB 11, which would allow those with permits to carry concealed handguns to also carry their guns on college campuses.
by Sarah Rumpf11 Feb 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

AUSTIN, Texas — Lieutenant Governor-elect Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke out about the ongoing admissions scandal at the University of Texas at Austin Thursday evening, voicing their support for Wallace J. Hall, Jr., the embattled Board of Regents member. Patrick went one step further, specifically criticizing legislators who had sought an unfair advantage for their children in getting admitted to UT.
by Sarah Rumpf9 Jan 2015, 7:50 AM PST0

The University of Texas Longhorns are once again the most valuable college football team in the nation. Valued with a net worth of $131 million, the team managed to hold onto the top position despite a six percent drop in net worth from 2013.
by Bob Price24 Dec 2014, 8:26 AM PST0