In an effort to relieve the financial difficulties many students are enduring due to COVID-19, the federal government passed the CARES Act, which provided emergency funding that was distributed throughout...
Despite continuing pleas from students and advice from Austin Public Health about restricting attendance at football games this semester, Texas Athletics has continued to allow the public into football...
Depending on their AP or IB scores, undergraduates can claim course credit for the introductory sequences in most foreign language classes taught at UT. In fact, students who score a 5 on their AP language...
Research can be a valuable part of the undergraduate student experience, as it offers an alternative to traditional classroom learning that is both empowering and inspiring. However, most students don’t...
While UT frequently posts valuable information across all of its platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, there is one platform with plenty of untapped potential: TikTok.
There are...
Registration can be a confusing process for many students, and the added uncertainty of continuing hybrid courses in the 2021 spring semester only increases students’ stress. Since everything is...
Choosing a major is the beginning of an educational journey. The next step is exploring the specializations and careers in your field. Many students struggle with where to go next, or even where to start,...
This spring, UT is rolling out a pilot version of the “inclusive access” digital textbooks program it plans to fully implement by fall 2021. Although the program offers some benefits, it will...
In March, UT abruptly canceled all study abroad programs.
This week, Texas Global informed students via a website update that they will “monitor the viability of programs in November and February...
The city of Austin is no stranger to bats. People gather in mass numbers to see the 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats leave the Congress Avenue Bridge every night.
However, it is a very different...
Because COVID-19 has taken so much from our lives, it’s easy to look past the daily inconveniences that life in a pandemic brings and choose instead to normalize them –– the fogging of...
If you were to walk past the Jester City Limits dining hall inside Jester West Residence Hall right now, you’d see a small piece of paper announcing the dining hall had closed on Oct. 5, 2020. This...
