Tag Archives: Higher Education
Hostile Takeover
How the Koch brothers and their libertarian allies pushed their way into Texas Tech — and used public funds to do it.
How the Koch brothers and their libertarian allies pushed their way into Texas Tech — and used public funds to do it....Read More
The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell
The president of Paul Quinn College on bringing a historically black institution back from the brink.
The president of Paul Quinn College discusses police violence, student debt and bringing a historically black institution back from the brink....Read More
Campus Carry Concerns Drive Another Texas Prof to Resign
A Texas A&M Galveston professor is the third Texas faculty member known to have stepped down because of campus carry.
Texas A&M Galveston prof Wyndylyn von Zharen stepped down, fearing disagreements between students and educators could turn violent with guns at hand....Read More
The Interview: Frank Jackson
Prairie View’s longtime mayor on Sandra Bland and Texas’ legacy of racial trauma.
Prairie View’s longtime mayor talks about Sandra Bland and Texas’ legacy of racial trauma, including 'post-traumatic slave syndrome.'...Read More
We Are Writers, Too
I enrolled at Texas State hoping to find my voice as a Chicana writer. Instead, I was told to whitewash my work.
I enrolled at Texas State hoping to find my voice as a Chicana writer. Instead, I was told to whitewash my writing and tone down criticisms of my program....Read More
Right-Wing Austin Institute’s ‘Frank and Fearless’ Take on Rape: Women, ‘Be Safe’
If you’ve got something important to do, such as take care of your own mental health, the upshot was this: Sex is risky, rape is bad, drinking! and women shou...Read More
Bad Credit: Are College Classes Working for High Schoolers?
The problem isn’t that high schoolers “aren’t ready for college,” says UTEP graduate student Eddie Nevarez, but rather that they get credit for courses ...Read More
UTSA Students Fight for Child Care at Downtown Campus
Campus officials say they don't have room for child care facilities at UT-San Antonio's downtown campus, but grad students aren't taking no for an answer....Read More
‘Fed Up’ UT Students Demand Free Tuition, Debt Cancellation
A coalition of students, teachers and staff at the University of Texas at Austin rallied Thursday as part of a nationwide call for free college tuition, the can...Read More