The Four-Star Chancellor
After retiring from a celebrated career in the Navy, William McRaven takes on a new fight: the battle over higher education.
After retiring from a celebrated career in the Navy, William McRaven takes on a new fight: the battle over higher education.
Baylor, bared.
What Ahmed Mohamed's case tells us about the American dream.
The most unpopular man in Austin will now be the most unpopular man somewhere else.
A group of UT computer scientists tries to program a team of machines to play soccer like the pros.
And they will not tolerate any haters.
A San Marcos student got creative after her license was revoked for suspicion of DWI.
The most expensive high school football stadium in the world will get a triumphant return after its embarrassing closure in 2014.
The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately after Ukwuachu was found guilty Thursday night, and reached its conclusion Friday afternoon.
Life and learning in the smallest school district in Texas.
The textbooks are all right.
As the University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi chapter faces blowback, we remember a different school's sorority recruitment video.
Experts speculate that the test is measuring the wrong thing.
What can an anarchist from Iceland teach America about politics? More than some might think.
Four other Confederates will maintain their vigil over the university, but Jefferson Davis is being moved out of plain sight.
The high school equivalency test is harder than ever before, and critics in Texas are seeking out other options.
Vandals leave racist messages and a Nazi symbol after breaking into a house, and the media fails to mention it. When can we talk about racism?
It’s a great step, but what it amounts to in practice isn’t quite clear.
Illustrations by Nicki Longoria. Click to enlarge.Elsewhere in this month’s issue, our political team considers which state legislators have earned our respect and which ones remind us why the stately granite building at Twelfth Street and Congress Avenue has long been the butt of countless jokes
UNT and SMU are among the handful of schools in the country where fans can get drunk while they’re at the game—and new UT President Greg Fenves wants Darrell K. Royal Stadium to join them.
Farewell, sweet bronc.
Time-out is an age-old punishment. But do the controversial “calm rooms” and “focus rooms” employed in Plano and New Braunfels go too far?
More McConaughfacts for you to bring up at the next McConaissance Faire.
Solid reporting from the University of Texas School of Journalism investigates the gender and racial makeup of law enforcement in Texas.
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
A small high school in Crane, Texas, just confirmed that 20 of its 300 students have been diagnosed with Chlamydia, spurring a revisitation of the district’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum.
There is something weird going on in Christoval ISD.
“It’s not about french fries, it’s about freedom,” ag commissioner Sid Miller said.
Reaction to the Texas State student’s performance art project ranged from supportive to critical.
The way Texas punishes truancy is downright Kafka-esque—and it’s finally getting a lot of attention.
A Houston-area high school chose to drop a policy that would have required all female prom guests to submit photos of their dresses for “pre-approval.”
A Facebook post documenting a Texas student’s dress code violation went viral earlier this month, but the school hasn’t and probably won’t change its policy.
An unnamed teacher at Foster High School, in Richmond, distributed a lesson that included “If taken hostage by radical Islamists, what to do,” and a very broad estimate of how many jihadists there are around the world.
A Brazoria County task force executed a 21 Jump Street-style sting in area high schools over the past several months, culminating in the arrests of six students.
Even academics know what there is to learn from La Reina de Tex-Mex.
In the aftermath of the racist Sigma Alpha Epsilon video, Texas is in no position to throw stones at Oklahoma. And we are not alone in that, sadly.
If, as Mr. T once said, you need to “be somebody, or be somebody’s fool,” the people behind the Austin tech start-up #BeSomebody appear to have made the wrong choice.
The school district claimed in a letter that they believed that the bleeding incidents were caused by “severe anxiety;” the woman and her doctor have documentation showing that it was an emergency stemming from a problem with her IUD. But should it even matter what exactly caused her medical emergency?
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
Texas Fiji said the party was supposed to be “Western themed,” which guests somehow interpreted as “border patrol.”
Austin Wallis posted a video to YouTube this week that details his difficult experience of being gay in a private, Lutheran school in Houston.
In most states, as the old saying goes, fifteen will get you twenty. In Texas, twenty can get you twenty, if you are employed by a school district in any capacity.
A few of our brainiest school’s most brazen assaults on common sense, good taste, and sacred Collies.
As tuition prices climb and student debt rates increase, UT-Austin students look for, ahem, financial aid on an online dating site with a weird twist.
Who knew part of the curriculum in South Texas schools would involve teaching parents the difference between fact and fiction?
Talk of reprising the ol' A&M-Texas rivalry in a bowl game has led to reports that the Aggies might be avoiding the Longhorns in such a scenario.
Not long after a Duncanville teacher was fired for tweeting "kill yourselves" to "crackers" who wanted to argue with her opinions about Ferguson, another teacher, this time in Houston, is under fire for using racially-charged language.
Diana Natalicio’s under-the-radar transformation of the University of Texas at El Paso.
The 101-year-old Aggie tradition found a new purpose on Monday morning.
The six-foot-four junior has already made a fan of LeBron James.