AUSTIN, Texas — State troopers and University of Texas law enforcement are responding to pro-Palestine protests at the Austin campus Wednesday afternoon. According to a call by ABC…
Read more 10 people arrested after University of Texas police and troopers respond pro-Palestine protestsLast week, the NYPD arrived on Columbia University’s campus and arrested students involved in a pro-Palestine encampment. Earlier this week, police officers arrested demonstrators at Yale and the…
Read more Police Clash With Palestine Protesters on Multiple CampusesNewswise — AUSTIN, Texas — Long before Antarctica froze over, rivers carved valleys through mountains in the continent’s east. Millions of years later, researchers have discovered a remnant…
Read more UT-Led Aerial Surveys Reveal Ancient Landscape Beneath East Antarctic Ice SheetAs a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, Sam Jefferson worked in the school’s diversity office. Jefferson said he learned firsthand just how essential the…
Read more Students and Faculty Fear Tenure and DEI Bills Could ‘Destroy’ Texas CollegesWhen George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, in May 2020, dozens of college leaders issued carefully crafted statements decrying racism and pledging to double down…
Read more ‘More Cowardly Than Cautious’: Faculty Decry College Leaders’ Silence on DEI AttacksWhen Texas lawmakers scheduled a hearing this week about two bills that could alter tenure and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, the higher-ed community had a lot…
Read more Tenure and DEI Changes Loom Large in Texas. Here Are 3 Takeaways From a Marathon Hearing.Washington CNN — The University of Texas at Austin blocked TikTok from its IT network on Wednesday under an earlier order by Gov. Greg Abbott banning the short-form…
Read more University of Texas at Austin blocks TikTok from its IT network | CNN BusinessThere are plenty of goodies in Ben Sasse’s new contract with the University of Florida, where the Republican senator from Nebraska is slated to start as president on…
Read more Ben Sasse’s Contract at Florida’s Flagship Has Lots of Perks. But Not Tenure.The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in two cases that challenge colleges’ consideration of race in admissions decisions — one against Harvard College, the other…
Read more As Race-Conscious Admissions Policies Go Before the Supreme Court, Here’s What 6 Experts Are Listening For
