On Sept. 25, Young Conservatives of Texas held an “affirmative action bake sale,” featuring baked goods priced at different levels based on race and gender of the buyer. White males paid...
UT President William Powers Jr. recently delivered his annual State of the University Address to the University community, wherein he highlighted several of his accomplishments over his tenure as president...
Establishing close professional relationships with educators can be the most beneficial part of attending a university. It is the risk of losing these opportunities that initially made me wary of blind...
UT sociology professor Joseph Potter was in the hot seat Monday and Tuesday, testifying to stop the controversial abortion restrictions that were passed this summer. The restrictions, some of which would...
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and last October, millions of dollars in donations flooded through various cancer awareness organizations for the purpose of raising public interest...
Editor’s Note: This column is one in a series by associate classics professor Jennifer Ebbeler on the changing nature of higher education at UT-Austin and other institutions. Look for Prof. Ebbeler’s...
When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago, I knew that I would never be the same — cancer has a way of changing your perspective like that.
But I never would have guessed...
Of all the experiences I had at ACL this year, the strangest by far was seeing three young, unsupervised children in the middle of a crowd going wild for Kendrick Lamar, a rap artist known mainly for his...
Last week, Solidarity Ignite, an advocacy group promoting fair working conditions in factories, hosted an event to highlight the benefits of the University Co-op’s new partnership with Alta Gracia,...
Last week, Solidarity Ignite, an advocacy group promoting fair working conditions in factories, hosted an event to highlight the benefits of the University Co-op’s new partnership with Alta Gracia,...
It’s a well-established fact that women only earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in equal positions. Such figures are cited often in this day and age, and the crusade to break through the...
For two years running, UT-Austin has landed among the top 10 schools for graduate entrepreneurship programs, as listed by both the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The 2014 rankings, which came...
