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The Last Safe Haven for DEI in Texas Higher Ed?

Accredited social work programs

by Miranda Williamson

Keep Reading

The UT System’s New ‘Controversial Topics’ Policy Is About Policing Knowledge

by María Del Carmen Unda

The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas

by Lise Olsen

My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don’t Like

by Alexandra Edwards

Texas State relocated Jefferson Davis monument to Hunter and made an attempt to scrub it of graffiti. Sep 30, 2016

Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

by Jordan Buckley

Sep 26, 2016

Hostile Takeover

How the Koch brothers and their libertarian allies pushed their way into Texas Tech — and used public funds to do it.

by Naveena Sadasivam and Jordan Sigler

August 2016 interview Michael Sorrell Aug 15, 2016

The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

The president of Paul Quinn College on bringing a historically black institution back from the brink.

by Patrick Michels

Jul 01, 2016

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.

by Nyssa Kruse

June 2016 The Interview Jun 20, 2016

The Interview: Frank Jackson

Prairie View’s longtime mayor on Sandra Bland and Texas’ legacy of racial trauma.

by Patrick Michels

Texas State University campus Mar 31, 2016

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.

by Sarah Rafael Garcia

From left: Baylor professor Alexander Pruss, journalist Laura Sessions Stepp and doctor Miriam Grossman, panel members on an Austin Institute-sponsored "frank and fearless" discussion about college sexual assault. Feb 19, 2016

Right-Wing Austin Institute’s ‘Frank and Fearless’ Take on Rape: Women, ‘Be Safe’

by Andrea Grimes

El Paso Community College Feb 17, 2016

Bad Credit: Are College Classes Working for High Schoolers?

by Patrick Michels

Student-parent Bianca Ramirez and a group of graduate social work students are holding two upcoming rallies demanding child care facilities at UT-San Antonio's downtown campus. Feb 02, 2016

UTSA Students Fight for Child Care at Downtown Campus

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

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