After my first semester as a senior reporter for The Daily Texan in the fall semester of 2017, Peter told me, “When you first started, I didn’t think you were very good, but you’ve become...
"First-Gen UT" is a year-long, collaborative series that shares the stories of first-generation Longhorns.
Stories are published in partnership with The Daily Texan and the UT chapters...
Editor’s Note: This is an introduction to The Daily Texan's new Diversity and Inclusion Board and our Raising Voices initiatives, which seek to improve representation in our strories and...
Wearing the outdated class ring she ordered years ago along with her cap and gown, Veronica Rivera looked out in awe at the crowd of 30 people waiting to greet her.
It was Dec. 8, the fall 2018...
This is the first installment of the semester-long, collaborative series “First-Gen UT,” which will share the stories of first-generation Longhorns. Stories will be produced in partnership with UT’s...
The UT System Board of Regents officially appointed James B. Milliken, the former City University of New York chancellor, as its new chancellor at a special meeting on Monday.
After naming the long-time...
Growing up in Houston, history junior Diana Landa heard her parents talk about life in Mexico, but couldn’t relate to them.
This summer, Landa visited Mexico and met her extended relatives for...
The UT System Board of Regents named James B. Milliken as the sole finalist for UT System chancellor at a special Saturday meeting.
This concludes the monthslong search for a successor to William McRaven,...
The UT System Board of Regents named former UT-Austin President Larry R. Faulkner the interim chancellor during a Friday special meeting.
Faulkner, UT president from 1998 to 2006 and a renowned chemist,...
CRIME:
Looking forward
Meechaiel Criner’s trial is set to begin July 9. Criner was indicted by a grand jury for capital murder in connection with the 2016 death of dance freshman Haruka Weiser.
Looking...
Five years ago, Eveling was shocked by her housing bill for her first semester at UT. Looking at the thousands of dollars she owed the University, she wondered what she would do.
“My tuition was...
As Texas’ 86th legislative session approaches, the UT System emphasized the importance of state funding and the upcoming elections during Tuesday’s Board of Regents meeting.
UT System university...
Walking on campus in April, Lori Brown remembered her son Harrison Brown’s first year at UT.
“Harrison had a moped down here,” Lori said with a laugh in the AT&T Center parking...
UT System chancellor William McRaven, who is leaving office in May, was honored with an endowment in his name during his final State of the System address on Friday.
McRaven, who joined the System...
Carmel Fenves, a textile artist and First Lady of UT, said her parents always worked for her to go to college, but could not offer advice to navigate the college experience.
“As much as my parents...
To help increase student success in Texas, UT-Austin and four other UT System universities will collaborate with schools flagged as “Improvement Required” by the Texas Education Agency for...
Next fall, UT will cover tuition for qualified Texas freshmen from families earning up to $30,000 through four-year awards.
On Friday, UT President Gregory Fenves announced the University will also...
Kate Lemley, a 2017 alumna, remembers almost having a meltdown after trying to navigate UT’s administration to get financial aid.
“When I was (at UT), my biggest problem with financial aid...
Next fall, UT will cover tuition for qualified Texas freshmen from families earning up to $30,000 through four-year awards.
On Friday, UT President Gregory Fenves announced that the University will...
Students were sent into a frenzy Tuesday as horror-film-esque rumors circulated — the turtle pond and the BOT greenhouse might be demolished. However, the turtle pond and greenhouse are not going...
Energy executive James “Jim” Hackett has become another contender to replace retiring UT System Chancellor William McRaven, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Hackett, 63, is now the second...
As UT System chancellor, William McRaven has traveled across Texas, meeting students from the System’s 14 institutions — something he will miss when he retires in May.
“The thing I...
With UT System Chancellor William McRaven set to retire in May, reports about former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson being a potential candidate have sparked discussions about who the Board of Regents...
With slightly higher tuition bills for the next two years, students will help UT fund efforts for student success and faculty salaries.
In March, the UT System Board of Regents allowed the University...
Earning roughly $119,936 one year after graduation, petroleum engineering majors have the highest earning potential out of all UT-Austin graduates, and outearn graduates of other fields of study by about...
After lawmakers’ attempts to overhaul higher education funding during the last legislative session, Texas universities may still face potential changes in 2019.
A committee of 10 state senators...
UT students now have a better glimpse at their economic future, thanks to an innovative UT System partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
On Monday, the UT System released nationwide data on the earnings...
Advertising senior Madi Poirot remembers reading The New York Times headline, “After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings,” in February and being surprised.
“I...
The UT System may be eyeing departing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to be its next chancellor, according to The Wall Street Journal and other media reports on Friday.
The UT System is in...
UT only covers the full tuition of roughly 60 percent of students from families earning $80,000 or less, University officials said after data from the UT System raised questions on Monday.
During the...
With newly approved tuition increases, UT students will face slightly higher tuition bills next fall.
The UT System Board of Regents, which governs all UT institutions, approved 2 percent tuition increases...
Comedian and actor Bill Murray made a brief appearance at the Moody College of Communication on Saturday morning.
“I have no idea why I’m here,” Murray said to a laughing crowd of...
Chemical engineering junior Diael Thomas has been able to do more at UT thanks to the Advanced Placement tests she took in high school.
Without the credits she earned through the AP tests, Thomas said...
Chanting “You can’t take our books away!” about 50 UT students and faculty members protested the removal of materials from the Fine Arts Library at SXSW EDU on Wednesday.
Members of...
The UT System is officially launching the search for a new chancellor to replace Bill McRaven, who is set to step down in May.
The System invited the public to submit comments and nominations for a...
The UT System Board of Regents allocated almost $7.4 million to promote students’ mental health, safe alcohol consumption and sexual assault prevention across UT institutions during a meeting...
UT President Gregory Fenves will reimburse the University $27,000 for violating UT-Austin rules by flying business class instead of economy multiple times.
A February audit by the UT System found Fenves’...
Following suspension threats from Texas school districts, UT-Austin reassured high school students on Monday that disciplinary actions for peaceful protests will not impact their admission chances.
Rice...
UT President Gregory Fenves will reimburse $27,000 for violating UT Austin rules by flying business class instead of economy multiple times.
A February audit by the UT System found Fenves’ business...
UT President Gregory Fenves proposed 2 percent tuition increases for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years last December. Now, the future of every UT student's tuition will be up to the UT System...
Twins Julian and Joaquin Castro have both made names for themselves in American politics — but they could not have done it without their mother, Maria del Rosario ‘Rosie’ Castro.
While...
In an anonymous spreadsheet listing accounts of sexual misconduct in academia, UT appears multiple times.
The spreadsheet “Sexual Harassment In the Academy: A Crowdsource Survey,” first...
The UT System’s Institute for Transformational Learning was supposed to pioneer an online brand for UT, but it shut down two weeks ago.
After investing a total of $75 million in the institute,...
Felicia Green and her daughter Madison Baker are both Longhorns, but their college experiences are very different.
Baker, a communications studies senior, entered UT along with many recent high...
Hispanic. Latina/o. Latinx. Which term are you supposed to use? Well, it depends.
Researchers have grappled with discussing race and ethnicity for years, but there is still no clear solution, especially...
With a visit from the French ambassador and the creation of an endowment, UT commemorated its ties to France while ensuring future international academic collaboration.
Gerard Araud, the French ambassador...
UT-Austin and UT System institutions are no longer posting past open records requests on their websites.
The UT System’s open records policy required its institutions to display filed open records...
Employers can now reach students from all 14 UT System institutions through a single platform called UT Connects Talent.
The new employment-matching platform aims to expand and improve employment opportunities...
Over the last year, protections for undocumented students, known as DREAMers, have become leverage for negotiating border wall funding and immigration reform in U.S. politics. This is what these federal...
UT has tracked student deaths by suicide for years, but a January investigation by the Associated Press found that about half of U.S. public colleges do not consistently track student suicide deaths.
After...
More Latino students are enrolling at UT and U.S. universities, but they are still not graduating at the same rate as white students.
A December report by The Education Trust highlighted a 10-percent...
The Harry Ransom Center, UT’s humanities research library and museum, will officially house all of Arthur Miller’s manuscripts, personal letters and journals.
The University announced the...
Chancellor William McRaven announced he will leave the UT System in May at a special Board of Regents meeting today.
McRaven, a renowned former U.S. Navy admiral and UT Austin alumnus, was appointed...
Student Government
Campaigns for Student Government positions will take place in the spring as candidates announce their intent to run at the start of the semester and continue until voting takes place...
From President Donald Trump visiting Austin to the Speedway bricks being ripped up, here are some of the top moments during the fall.
Hurricane Harvey
Many students’ semesters were stalled...
For years, college students have applied for financial aid through the FAFSA.gov website, but next spring they’ll get to do it on their phones.
Hoping to facilitate the financial aid application...
William McRaven, a former U.S. Navy admiral, became the first and only UT System chancellor to get hired on a contract three years ago.
McRaven’s contract is coming to an end this month, but he’s...
UT and universities across the U.S. are reporting increased FAFSA verification requests from the U.S. Department of Education, complicating the financial aid application process for students.
The Department...
As a political journalist, Peter Baker has observed many presidents, but none like President Donald Trump.
“We’ve never seen a president in real time give us all and any of his point of...
With graduation around the corner, Charles Anumnu tweeted that he and his twin brother, Carlton Anumnu, would be the first black student athletes to graduate from UT’s electrical engineering department.
Within...
UT is receiving fewer applications from international students since 2016, a trend seen across the state and the U.S.
While the number of international students enrolled at UT has continued growing,...
A Texas higher education official is raising concerns about the underrepresentation of college males in Texas, but the UT community doesn't feel the same way.
Raymund Paredes, the leader of...
Alejandro Martinez never expected UT officials to show up at his home in Mission, Texas, with an admissions letter, giant check and balloons for him.
But when it happened, he quickly texted his...
The UT System will officially compete to run the historic Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory.
UT System Board of Regents voted 4-3 to submit a management proposal for the nuclear research laboratory at a...
Surfing the internet in the United States may become more expensive if a recent proposal to end net neutrality rules comes to fruition.
The Federal Communications Commission released a proposal last...
The UT System’s West Texas lands could become a hub for renewable energy through new solar and wind energy projects. University Lands, the entity that manages 2.1 million acres of state land benefiting...
Junior Quynhanh Tran had her four years at UT all laid out, but her plans were shaken up by UT’s new auto-graduation procedure.
Tran planned to complete her economics and Plan II degrees...
The University is collecting student input on a possible 2 percent tuition increase until Thursday.
The preliminary recommendations to increase tuition for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years...
Almost 100 students voiced opposition to the removal of fine arts books and collection materials at the UT Fine Arts Library, FAL, town hall Thursday.
The town hall was prompted by concerns about changes...
Public relations senior Joy Puder worries she will not earn what her white male counterparts earn after graduation.
“A Latina woman, to make the same amount of money a white man does in a...
A recent Senate of College Councils survey shows almost half of UT students strongly disapprove of more tuition hikes.
The survey, which started early October and ended last Thursday, sought to gather...
National security concerns such as terrorist attacks or North Korean nuclear missiles often make headlines, but in-depth analysis is often missing from national security conversations, according to a new...
The Dell Medical School could provide health training for students in the Austin Independent School District if a $1 billion AISD bond passes.
The AISD and Dell collaboration announced their proposal...
With possible tuition increases on the horizon, a Senate of College Councils survey is collecting student opinions on tuition until Wednesday night.
With a $20 million budget reduction in June, University...
When trying to sell promotional products, political communications senior Elizabeth Haynie became overwhelmed by the permits, taxes and numerous requirements necessary to start a business. To help student...
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve, but former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wore her foreign policy stances on her chest — with pins.
Wearing a Lone Star and cowboy pin,...
The Office of Financial Aid was flooded with 40,000 financial aid applications last October after a new timeline for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, was implemented in 2016.
FAFSA...
The future of UT’s Fine Arts Library has come into question with recent layout changes and on-campus space constraints.
Over the last year, 75,000 Fine Arts Library books, music scores and periodicals...
Saturday was not Miriam Rivero’s first UT tailgate, but it was the first where she felt comfortable as a student in recovery from addiction.
Rivero attended an alcohol-free tailgate, hosted by...
A messy publishing system drives up the costs of research journals every year, straining UT Libraries’ budget and the University’s access to research information.
UT Libraries spends a yearly...
Tabling on the West Mall on Tuesday, UT students and advocacy group Environment Texas reignited a campaign to reduce methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on UT System-controlled land.
The...
With a new $1.8 million federal grant, UT will train students to improve mental health care for low-income and uninsured populations in Travis County.
To address the lack of mental health care professionals...
As a young girl from Laredo, Texas, Sara Martinez Tucker never imagined she would become the newest chairman of the UT System Board of Regents.
She was once told by a guidance counselor that she was...
The Texas Homeless Education Office at UT will award the new Barbara Wand James Homeless Student Support Scholarship for Texas homeless college students this Friday.
The new scholarship was modeled...
A single-dose Zika vaccine developed by UT Medical Branch researchers is one step closer to protecting humans from the virus.
For the first time, UTMB researchers protected primates from Zika infection...
UT’s Applied Research Laboratories acquired the largest research contract in the University’s history, with potential funding of about $1 billion over 10 years, from the U.S. Navy on Thursday.
The...
A recent $118 million lease sale of state lands to oil companies will continue funding UT and Texas A&M universities through oil and natural gas wells.
The lease of approximately 44,000 acres of...
Staying true to its “We are all Mexico” mural, Austin Mexic-Arte Museum sent donations on Monday to survivors of Mexico’s earthquakes.
Three major earthquakes and various aftershocks...
Politicians rehashed the sanctuary cities and Uber controversies, reopening the debate about city and state control at this weekend’s Texas Tribune Festival.
The divide between state politicians...
The state’s two Republican U.S. senators displayed starkly different takes on where Texas is headed going into the 2018 midterm elections, one day after a Democratic candidate for Senate made his...
As college costs continue to rise nationwide, learn about the future of college affordability from experts, including university presidents and national and local congressmen.
Follow this page for all of The Daily Texan’s coverage of Texas Tribune Festival 2017. We’ll bring you moments from the biggest discussions, covering topics like local control, sexual...
Sara Martinez Tucker was elected to lead the UT System Board of Regents as its new chairwoman on Tuesday.
Regent Tucker, a UT alumna, was nominated by Regent Paul Foster to succeed him, and she was...
A recent national bipartisan bill aims to remove barriers to college for students facing homelessness or transitioning out of foster care.
The Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster...
Admissions to UT will become more competitive with a 6 percent automatic acceptance rate for fall 2019 applicants.
The decrease to 6 percent will be UT’s lowest automatic acceptance rate since...
As undocumented students grapple with the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the nonprofit Jolt is fundraising to help Central Texans submit and pay for the last round of DACA applications...
Looking to expand in national security and nuclear research, the UT System will compete to run the historic Los Alamos National Laboratory.
LANL, the laboratory established under the Manhattan Project...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced her plans to change Title IX System guidelines for sexual assault and harassment cases on college campuses in a press conference at George Mason University Thursday...
