Articles tagged: Higher Education
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
Advocates Rally in Support of Texas DREAM Act
Hispanic advocates and business leaders rallied to defend the Texas DREAM Act against GOP proposals to eliminate in-state tuition for undocumented students....Read More
How Do Technical College Grads Fare in the Job Market? It’s Complicated.
Texas' public technical colleges often promote their high job placement rates, but the real measure of their programs' success is more complex....Read More
Randy Best is Back with Another Star-Studded Higher Ed Summit
Randy Best, the Dallas entrepreneur whose Academic Partnerships helps public universities take degree programs online, will host Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton fo...Read More
Laid-Off UT-Brownsville Faculty Sue, Claiming School Ignored their Tenure Rights
Three professors filed a suit against the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, escalating a two-year battle over tenure rights....Read More