In all honesty, I have not been at the Texan a very long time. I stayed away for almost two years before I finally made my way into the basement. But now, I’ve made it to the end of the line, and...
In accepting the UT System’s operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the Board of Regents approved Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s proposal Thursday to utilize more of the System’s...
Naval Adm. William McRaven officially became the UT System’s next chancellor Thursday.
After naming McRaven sole finalist to succeed outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa in late July,...
After investigating Regent Wallace Hall for more than a year, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations voted 6-1 to issue him an "admonishment and censure" on...
In this podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guest Nick Castillo discuss the UT System Board of Regents naming Naval Adm. William McRaven the sole finalist to replace Francisco Cigarroa as chancellor....
The UT System Board of Regents named Naval Adm. William McRaven the sole finalist to replace Francisco Cigarroa as System chancellor at a meeting on Tuesday.
McRaven, 58, is known for overseeing the...
The UT System Board of Regents has scheduled a meeting via telephone on Tuesday to discuss the search for Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s replacement.
According to the meeting agenda, the regents...
In this podcast, Jacob Kerr and Amanda Voeller discuss the news and events surrounding President William Powers Jr.'s resignation on July 9. They also talk about the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals'...
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations questioned three UT System officials about President William Powers Jr.’s resignation and recent controversies surrounding...
After days of speculation, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and President William Powers Jr. agreed to set Powers’ resignation date for June 2, 2015, giving him almost 11 months...
In the first UT System Board of Regents meeting since Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa asked President William Powers Jr. to resign, Chairman Paul Foster expressed disappointment with “insulting and...
In an unexpected decision, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced President William Powers Jr. will remain in his position until June 2, 2015 in a statement on Wednesday.
Cigarroa previously...
In a letter to UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa on Wednesday, 17 student leaders at the University asked him to work with President William Powers Jr. on developing a timetable for Powers’...
In a statement on Monday, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said his decision to ask President William Powers Jr. to resign was because of a "communication and trust" issue.
In the statement,...
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations co-chairs sent a letter on Monday to Paul Foster, UT System Board of Regents chairman, asking the board not to make any employment...
In this podcast, Jacob Kerr and Amanda Voeller discuss the UT System's new investigation into the University's admissions process and a recent Daily Texan story on students denied transfer...
The UT System will launch an external investigation into the University’s admissions process, according to System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo.
After the System released its findings from...
Tuition and fees at UT have nearly doubled in the last decade while the need for higher education is beginning to lose support among Texas voters.
According to the Office of Student Financial Services,...
A federal grand jury indicted UT student Rahatul Khan with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, according to the Department of Justice on Friday.
Khan was scheduled to appear in...
Federal prosecutors arrested a UT student on Tuesday accused of aiding terrorists, according to a United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas press release.
Rahatul...
In this podcast, Jacob Kerr and Amanda Voeller discuss some of the biggest stories in May, including the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations vote that grounds for UT System...
Regent Controversy
A state legislative committee is working to draft articles of impeachment against UT System Regent Wallace Hall, who could be the first non-elected state official to be removed from...
Sharon Wood, Cockrell School of Engineering interim dean, will stay on as the school’s next dean, the University announced Friday.
After serving as chair of the school’s department...
HOUSTON — With more than 65 percent of the vote, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, secured the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, defeating incumbent David Dewhurst in the runoff election...
After lengthy discussion, the UT System Board of Regents approved changes to the Regents’ Rules and Regulations regarding regent requests for information at a meeting on Tuesday.
With the changes,...
The UT System Board of Regents decided not to increase in-state undergraduate tuition and approved the University’s guaranteed tuition plan at a meeting Tuesday.
With the decision, the board authorized...
Update (May 20, 12:32 p.m.): In the letter, released on Tuesday by attorney Allan Van Fleet, Hall crticized Chairman Paul Foster's handling of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency...
In front of an orange-lit UT Tower, 8,686 students graduated from the University at the 131st Spring Commencement ceremony on Saturday.
The event capped off two days of ceremonies held in the individual...
After delivering the commencement address for the LBJ School of Public Affairs, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro talked with The Daily Texan about some of the issues surrounding higher education today....
A UT System review of the University’s admissions process released Thursday found no evidence of a structured system of favoritism or wrongdoing, but raised issue with letters of recommendation from...
In a major step away from the private, behind-the-scenes disagreements among the members of the UT System Board of Regents, board Chairman Paul Foster publicly asked Regent Wallace Hall to resign at the...
Two years after freezing in-state tuition for UT-Austin students, the UT System Board of Regents approved tuition increases for out-of-state undergraduate students at the University and tabled the...
Updated (2:56 p.m.): In a statement distributed by attorney Allan Van Fleet, Regent Wallace Hall said his impeachment would not solve the problems he has identified at UT System institutions.
"When...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and special guest Bobby Blanchard recap the biggest news stories from the Spring 2014 semester. They also discuss Bobby's recent story on student...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Madlin Mekelburg and Nicole Cobler discuss the recent on-campus Shared Services protest, which resulted in the arrest of 18 students. They...
Eighteen Save Our Community Coalition members were arrested while participating in a sit-in against Shared Services in front of President William Powers Jr.’s office, following a more than 200-person...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guest Nicole Cobler discuss a letter authored by three UT faculty members asking President William Powers Jr. to withdraw his endorsement of Shared...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guest Madlin Mekelburg discuss the past week's Civil Rights Summit, which was hosted on the UT campus by the LBJ Library to commemorate the...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a major figure of the Civil Rights Movement and Baptist minister who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, sat down with The Daily Texan this morning to discuss the civil rights issues...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Julia Brouillette and Madlin Mekelburg talk about the recent Fort Hood shooting. They also talk about newly-released notes from a summer...
For hours every afternoon, cars stretch for miles on Austin’s major freeways and roads, stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic with little hope for relief. While city officials say they are taking a multifaceted...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Nicole Cobler and Chris Hummer discuss Texas Student Media's decision to keep The Daily Texan's print schedule at five days a week....
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Alyssa Mahoney and Madlin Mekelburg talk about Austin City Council voting to reduce the occupancy limit for unrelated adults in single...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Alyssa Mahoney and Nicole Cobler discuss the results of Texas primary elections for governor and lieutenant governor. They also talk about...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Nicole Cobler and Julia Brouillette discuss the results from the student elections, including the Rady-Strickland campaign winning the...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guest Bobby Blanchard discuss the Interfraternity Council's decision not to endorse any candidates in the student election races and the results...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Bobby Blanchard and Madlin Mekelburg discuss UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa's resignation and the upcoming student elections....
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guest Madlin Mekelburg discuss a letter sent by UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa to the House Select Committee on Transparency in State...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Julia Brouillette and Nicole Cobler talk about the Univeristy's handling of Tuesday's inclement weather. They also discuss a proposal...
Democrat Celia Israel defeated Republican Mike VanDeWalle in the House District 50 runoff election on Tuesday.
Israel, who amassed 59 percent of the vote, will succeed Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, who...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Jordan Rudner and Bobby Blanchard discuss the latest news surrounding Texas Student Media's move to the Moody College of Communication...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Bobby Blanchard and Madlin Mekelburg discuss UT's hiring of Charlie Strong as head coach of the football team and the decision...
UT has fallen out of the top 25 world universities, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings released Wednesday.
The University dropped to 27th in the 2013-14 rankings. In the...
With men’s head athletic director DeLoss Dodds announcing his retirement on Tuesday, the University will begin the search for new athletic director in the coming weeks.
UT spokesman Gary Susswein...
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas earlier this year, officials from the Obama administration affirmed the validity of using race as a factor in determining...
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin earlier this year, officials from the Obama administration affirmed the use of race as a factor in determining...
The Landmarks program, which arranges for various sculptures and artworks to be displayed across campus, is entering its fifth year of existence and will open its latest piece, James Turrell’s “The...
UT System Regent Wallace Hall, who is facing possible impeachment, defended his recent actions on the UT System Board of Regents during a higher education panel with state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, on...
Hearings for Fisher v. University of Texas are scheduled to be given for the second time on Nov. 13 in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The case was initiated by Abigail Fisher, who sued...
The Center for Mexican American Studies may become its own department if plans are approved in November and an advisory committee finds adequate funding sources.
The center would become the Department...
The UT System Board of Regents approved salary increases for UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and five other executives from the System
Administration.
The decision, which was made at the board’s...
Moving forward with its investigation into UT System Regent Wallace Hall, the House Select Committee on Transparency in Stage Agency Operations decided Hall’s attorneys would not be allowed to cross-examine...
The UT System Board of Regents approved a $310 million funding plan for the Engineering Education and Research Center at a specially called meeting Thursday.
“This is obviously a very important...
President William Powers Jr. listed funding and technology integration as two of the biggest challenges the University will face in the coming years in his annual State of the University Address on Wednesday.
Though...
Officials representing two different nonprofit fundraising foundations are unsure as to whether they will have to abide by rules and regulations recently issued by the UT System Board of Regents.
Last...
After the first full week of classes, the world’s first synchronous massive online course (SMOC) program still has fewer than 40 non-UT students enrolled in one of its two classes.
Though SMOCs...
In an unexpected move Friday, Time Warner Cable added the Longhorn Network to its lineup of channels broadcasted in Texas.
The decision, announced the day before the Longhorn Network aired UT’s...
The UT System Board of Regents released its final report from the Advisory Task Force on Best Practices Regarding University-Affiliated Foundation Relationships.
The final report includes five recommendations...
The House Select Committee for Transparency in State Agency Operations hired Houston attorney Rusty Hardin to aid its investigation into UT System Regent Wallace Hall.
Hardin, known for defending...
Time Warner Cable agreed to add Longhorn Network to its channel lineup the day before the start of UT’s football season.
The channel, which offers coverage of UT sports and academics, will now...
Under a proposal made last week by the Obama administration in which universities nation-wide would be compared against one another for financial aid, UT officials said the University would rank well,...
As the tense relationship between UT and the UT System continues, the UT System Board of Regents reshuffled its leadership in its meeting Thursday.
The board elected Regent Paul Foster as chairman,...
Update (8:05): The Board of Regents approved the audit committee's review Monday morning
Original story: In the wake of UT’s decision to suspend open records requests from the UT...
While the University has announced there will be no centrally funded salary increases from the Tower for the fifth fiscal year in a row, deans are looking at ways to raise salaries within their own budgets.
In...
The UT System regents work in the background, making decisions affecting thousands across the state. Under the glare of a possible impeachment and facing controversy, the regents will meet this month and...
While a major university in California has suspended its massive open online course program, UT is preparing to launch its own MOOC program in September.
Partnering with online education provider edX,...
Future students may bypass cars, buses and bikes in Austin and take a train to class that could leave them right in front of the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
The city of Austin, Capital Metro...
MyEdu claims students support changes made by the company in the past year, but former student leaders doubt the changes are beneficial or worth the $10 million the UT System invested in the company.
At...
As the Dell Medical School continues to search for its inaugural dean, UT has selected an architect to design the first phase of buildings for the school.
According to UT medical school spokesman Robert...
State legislators took a step closer to possibly impeaching UT System regent Wallace Hall at a public hearing on Monday, examining what precedents are at hand for the impeachment of appointed state officials.
Hall...
Soon you may be able to smell like a Texas Longhorn.
UT is in talks with Masik Collegiate Fragrances to develop a school scent that could be released by the end of this year. Masik markets cologne...
While a presentation from MyEdu’s executives to the UT System’s Board of Regents elicited a positive response from the Regents on Thursday, some UT students are not pleased with the changes...
Although there are fewer students on campus during the summer, UT continues to operate at its regular pace.
Despite enrollment dropping to around 16,000 students during the summer, there is not a significant...
Researchers at UT have developed a new desalination method that uses electrochemistry to make drinking water from seawater.
Led by UT chemistry professor Richard Crooks, the team works using a small...
UT has partnered with leaders in the video game industry to start a graduate-level video game academy that will open in the fall of 2014 at the University.
The Denius-Sams Gaming Academy is being developed...
As the dry conditions in Austin continue, UT is making an ongoing effort to conserve water through major changes to its irrigation system.
Markus Hogue, UT’s irrigation and water conservation...
David Glisch-Sánchez, a UT doctoral candidate, has been awarded a $20,000 Moore Fellowship from the Hogg Foundation for his dissertation research on social harm experienced by the LGBTQ Latinas/os.
Specifically,...
