May 16, 2012
Perry Says Bill Powers on “Wrong Side”
In San Antonio and then again in Austin, the governor addressed the controversy over the University of Texas at Austin president's position on tuition.
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May 1, 2012
Fightin’ Words: SMU Slams Student Newspaper
A Daily Campus story alleges the university improperly uses "secret hearings" to deal with sexual assault cases involving students, and SMU fires back.
April 10, 2012
Where Do the Highest Paid Professors in Texas Work?
The Chronicle of Higher Education put together a list of the highest paid professors across the country.
Health
February 28, 2012
How Many Medical Schools Should the Valley Get?
Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., said that building two medical schools in the Valley is "totally unrealistic" and the focus should be kept on the plan to build a University of Texas system medical school in Harlingen.
Sports
February 16, 2012
5 Things to Know About the TCU Drug Bust
Fifteen TCU students, including four members of Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs football team, were among eighteen people arrested on drug dealing charges.
Sports
February 7, 2012
Texas Tech Has Lost Its Chess Queen
Knight Raiders coach Susan Polgar is leaving for Missouri's Webster University. And she's taking the team with her.
Sports
November 29, 2011
A&M Athletics Employee Calls University President Loftin a “Putz”
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re the Chief Financial Officer of Texas A&M’s athletic department . . . until they do.
Sports
November 27, 2011
UT and A&M: Sports Rivals, Academic Friends
Texas A&M’s athletic department may be leaving behind the University of Texas, but they remain linked through academics.
November 1, 2011
Rice is Better Than Harvard
Kiplinger private school rankings say the state's most prestigious university is also the third best academic value in the country.
Sports
October 31, 2011
Farmers Flight!
Texas A&M’s announcement that it was bolting the Big 12 for the SEC signaled the end of a passionate rivalry with the University of Texas that has defined the two schools for more than a century. But what does the end of Aggies versus Longhorns mean for the rest of
Politics & Policy
June 29, 2011
A response to Michael Quinn Sullivan
Michael Quinn Sullivan has a bone to pick with me. I am the subject of a blog post by Sullivan published on the Empower Texans web site yesterday under the headline, “Texas Monthly: Disclosure-Free Zone.” Sullivan objects to the fact that in an April column about
Politics & Policy
May 26, 2011
R.G.’s Take: Perry Gets His Way Again
Oh, ye liberals, Democrats and college professors, weep. There is no doubt now that the man you love to hate – Governor Rick Perry – will be the biggest winner of the 82nd Legislature. Perry has gotten his way on almost every item on is legislative agenda and squeezed the
Politics & Policy
March 31, 2011
Old College Try
Rick Perry's quiet war on higher ed.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 2009
Hullabaloo
Rick Perry is the first Aggie governor in history. But as the current crisis shows, he’s been nothing but trouble for Texas A&M.
Politics & Policy
May 27, 2009
Report: A&M may combine chancellor, president; Murano’s future uncertain
From today’s story in The Eagle, the newspaper for Bryan-College Station: Texas A&M University System officials are considering merging the jobs of system chancellor and Texas A&M University president, Chancellor Mike McKinney confirmed Tuesday. No plans for such a move are in place, McKinney told The Eagle, but he and
Politics & Policy
November 24, 2008
Shapleigh: “In my view you miss the point.”
I am going to publish below an e-mail and corresponding op-ed that I received from Senator Eliot Shapleigh. It requires no explanation. # # # # This is Shapleigh's letter to me: I’ve read your recent pieces on major issues, including tuition. In my view you miss the point. After
Politics & Policy
November 23, 2008
Tuition de-reg: Will it be an issue in the speaker’s race?
Here’s the problem for Tom Craddick. The House passed tuition deregulation in 2003 for one reason and one reason only: The speaker twisted Republicans’ arms to get the votes. Almost six years later, tuition and fees at Texas’s public university have risen by an average of 50%, according to Robert
Texas Monthly Talks
February 1, 2008
Diana Natalicio
Diana Natalicio on the future of higher ed in El Paso.
Education
February 1, 1999
Ebony and Ivy
How an African American from Houston’s Fifth Ward rose to become the president of a mostly white, exceedingly
The Culture
July 31, 1998
Day of the Ed
What kind of person would be best at figuring out how to spend $295,000? A poet, of course. That kind of money might be chump change to Charles Barkley, but to the prototypical starving artist, it’s a lot of stanzas. Or it will be for University of Houston English professor
News & Politics
August 31, 1997
Public Service • Bill Hobby
Governed by generosity.
Being Texan
April 30, 1994
Black Like Them
During the days of segregation, a young graduate of all-white Rice University managed to become a professor at all-black Texas Southern University.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1992
Happy Babble
George H. W. Bush's commencement speech at Southern Methodist University was long on rhetoric and short on specifics.
News & Politics
March 1, 1991
The Greek Way
Are good times and fun pranks giving way to racial slurs and ritualized violence? An inside look at UT’s fraternity row.
News & Politics
May 1, 1989
So Near Yet So Far
Rice was created to be a “university of the first rank.” Is it? Will it ever be?
Business
August 1, 1986
Free Enterprise U.
Let’s hear it for Dallas’ Northwood Institute, where entrepreneurialism is second only to high society fundraising.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not
Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
Sports
September 30, 1977
When The Cheering Stopped
Where are the cheerleaders of yesteryear?
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Rites of Autumn
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
That Certain Look
From alpha to omega, you can’t tell the sorority girls apart without a scorecard.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Sisterhood is Powerful
Especially for sorority sisters.
News & Politics
May 31, 1976
The Voice from the Tower
The weirdest student demonstration ever.