This past September, there was a palpable change in the air during the latter part of McCombs’ signature Undergraduate Career Expo. All seemed ordinary — there was the usual mass of black suits...
For more than two decades, state funding at the University of Texas at Austin has been in decline, shrinking from 47 percent of the University’s budget in 1984-1985 to only 13 percent today. Although...
Horns Up: Theatre and dance reconsiders guest-casting decision
The University’s theatre and dance department reversed its decision to cast guest actors (instead of students) for nine out of 12...
College students tend to define themselves by their majors, but they need to realize that what they study isn’t a binding contract spelling out what skills they can and cannot develop before graduation.
For...
In the past two weeks, the UT theatre department has found itself caught in a casting controversy, and racial inequalities may be to blame. According to a Daily Texan article published Oct. 30, the...
To study in another country while being fully immersed in a foreign culture has to be the highlight of any college student’s young life. So why don’t more students study abroad? Mainly because...
In the wake of the government shutdown, the Republican Party’s approval ratings are down to 22 percent nationwide, according to a NBC/WSJ poll, and it’s clear that the GOP is in trouble. Many...
Recently, a controversial study was released which claimed that immigrants have lower IQs and that therefore we should limit immigration. Another recently released controversial study alleged...
On Jan. 29, 2013, President William Powers Jr. gave a speech called “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” which announced a report written by the Committee on Business Productivity, which consists...
If your Facebook news feed is anything like mine, between drunk Halloween pictures and aggressively under-informed political screeds, short lists seem to dominate most of the space. From fledgling viral...
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Oct. 24 that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, had submitted a letter to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sessions, the senior Republican on the Senate...
In the fall of 2012, psychology professors James Pennebaker and Sam Gosling launched a bold teaching experiment: They moved their face-to-face, lecture-based Psychology 301 course from the classroom to...
