Every morning, thousands of UT students commute to campus by bus, car, bike, or the distinctive West Campus walk — complete with high-knee steps over shattered liquor bottles and piles of dog excrement....
If you’re a college student, there’s no way around it — searching for housing sucks. You can opt to pay exorbitant amounts to live on campus or even more exorbitant amounts to live in...
For many students coming to college, signing an apartment lease is one of the first independent, adult decisions they can make. Unfortunately, it is also an expensive process riddled with pitfalls, that...
According to the Daily Texan, more than 75,000 books, musical scores and collection materials acquired and maintained over many decades with great care and at great expense have recently been removed from...
Recently, The Washington Monthly scrutinized UT-Austin’s endowment spending during the tenures of Chancellors Francisco Cigarroa and Bill McRaven.
I was horrified to learn that UT spent so much...
While students come to UT-Austin from all over Texas, and all over the world, not all of them arrive on an equal playing field. The university can do more to alleviate the institutional barriers that bar...
Do a quick Google search for Robert Lee Moore, the man whose name has been on the physics, math and astronomy building at UT-Austin since 1973, and one of the first things you’ll learn is that he...
Last December, Uri Treisman and David Laude convened an outreach committee of faculty, staff and students interested in recruiting more students of color, students from families with modest incomes and...
Have you ever run a race and wished you at least had some sort of head start? Or some sort of assurance that will guarantee you first place? First-generation college students face this battle throughout...
Speaking before a Texas Senate committee last year, a group of remarkable young women — many of them survivors of sexual assault — told us that Texas needed to define clearly what it means...
Across UT-Austin, professors and thousands of students work in search of new discoveries in science while others focus on expanding our understanding of human interactions and history. Outside the university-setting,...
The primary subject of the Humanities is conspicuous in its name. Humanists study the foibles and pluck of us humans, in all our manifold sizes and shapes. The primary concern of the Sciences is also evident...
