A multicolored sea of more than 5,000 T-shirts representing more than 60 organizations flooded the Capitol steps Wednesday as people rallied against proposed state budget cuts. The Save Our State...

Programs in the Department of African and African American Studies, one of the ethnic studies departments that had its budget cut Tuesday, help students expand their potential job opportunities, said...

After student protests and months of examining and adjusting recommended cuts, three more Special Academic Centers will no longer receive funding from the College of Liberal Arts, Dean Randy Diehl announced...

Two days after the Texas House passed a $164 billion budget bill, Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, told a group of students the cuts in the bill were necessary. The Texas Politics Speaker Series,...

Barefoot, with their soles blackened by the pavement, students endured cracked sidewalks and hot asphalt Tuesday to raise awareness of global poverty. About 30 students participated in the joint...

State university campuses with gender and sexuality centers could have to add a “traditional family values center” that receives equal state funding if an amendment to the House Budget Bill...

UT’s president and the UT System chancellor are the second- and third-highest paid public university executives in the country, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. In total take-home...

House members gathered under the Capitol dome for more than 15 hours Friday and again Sunday to hash out details of the 2012-13 biennium budget, which passed in a 98-49 vote mostly along party lines. Lawmakers...

About 200 people from 12 public interest groups rallied at the Capitol on Friday while members of the Texas House debated the 2012-13 budget bill. Protesters lit candles and carried coffins into...

The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT will help revamp Southwestern University’s writing program, thanks to a $720,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will allow...

Appearing in publications from Time magazine to Vanity Fair and portraying figures including President Gerald Ford and President Bush, Diana Walker’s photographs have been some of the most popular...

More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census. Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage...