As a profession, journalism is a baptism by fire. For me, it was baptism by pepper spray. It’s been two years since this University deployed law enforcement to arrest, brutalize and pepper spray my...

After more than a year in office, UT President Jim Davis sat down with The Daily Texan on Thursday for his first interview with outside press.  In the 30-minute interview, Davis discussed the consolidation...

The Daily Texan sat down with UT President Jim Davis on Thursday for his first interview with outside press since he took office over a year ago. Davis discussed artificial intelligence, federal funding,...

The College of Liberal Arts will unveil two new departments in the fall that merge seven ethnic, area and gender studies departments.  According to a Thursday email from COLA interim Dean David Sosa...

Governor: The governor appoints members to the UT System Board of Regents, which governs the system’s 13 academic and medical institutions. The board oversees University affairs and appoints the UT...

The College of Liberal Arts will consolidate seven ethnic and area studies programs, along with the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, into two departments, according to an email from...

  Editor's note: All faculty are speaking for themselves and not on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin. Some professors asked to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation. Curran Nault...

Editor's note: All faculty are speaking for themselves and not on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin. Some professors asked to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation. For years, students have...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 28 de Octubre de 2025 por Maryam Ahmed y Isaiah Williams y fue traducido al español por Noemi Castanon el 30 de Octubre. El colegio de artes...

The College of Liberal Arts created an advisory committee to develop new structural models for the college by the end of this semester, according to an email sent to department chairs and academic directors...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 9 de octubre de 2025 por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Sofia Estrada Ferrufino el 12 de octubre. La universidad suspendió...

Editor’s Note: Attributions of two sources within this story have been updated by request of the individuals involved.  Flowers and candles lined a corner of the Main Mall on Thursday, adorning picture...

The University discontinued the Comprehensive Learner’s Record initiative, according to a Sept. 25 email obtained by the Daily Texan.  The CLR was a new model of assessing career readiness which...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 10 de Junio del 2025 por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Priscilla Durling. Un juez federal anuló el miércoles la Ley...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 10 de junio de 2025 por Catharine Li y Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Chelsea DeRoach. Este artículo menciona actos...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this article stated that law enforcement deployed flash bang grenades against protestors. Law enforcement utilized tear gas canisters, not flash bang grenades,...

A federal judge struck down the Texas Dream Act on Wednesday, a law that allowed undocumented higher education students to receive in-state tuition.  Passed in 2001, the Texas Dream Act allowed undocumented...

The Texas House passed an amended version of the Campus Protection Act, a bill restricting expressive activity on college campuses, on June 2.  The bill, introduced by Texas Sen. Brandon Creighton,...

Editor's Note: This article was updated on May 2 to include new information. Two current students and two graduates sued the University, Gov. Greg Abbott and former UT president Jay Hartzell Wednesday...

About 100 protesters gathered on the South Lawn on Thursday, chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”  These chants are identical to the ones...

Colleges and universities are no longer exempt from immigration law enforcement activities, according to a Jan. 21 directive from the Department of Homeland Security.  The directive overturned a 2021...

The U.S. Department of Justice sued a software company and six major property management companies, including one with properties in West Campus, on Jan. 7 for colluding to fix rent prices.  The lawsuit...

  A Travis County judge dismissed charges Monday against a UT professor who was fired after being arrested for his conduct at a pro-Palestinian demonstration last April.  On April 29, a group...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 2 de diciembre de 2024 por Maryam Ahmed y y fue traducido al español por Anirudh Karunakaran. El 14 de noviembre, la universidad notificó...

The University notified all staff Nov. 14, including student employees, that they must complete a mandatory Senate Bill 17 compliance training by February 2025.  All UT employees must complete...

Over 200 students gathered outside the LBJ School of Public Affairs Tuesday for a “noise demonstration” to protest an event featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Students and...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 11 de noviembre por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Daniela Capistran. La universidad publicó una guía de inteligencia...

The University released an artificial intelligence guide on Oct. 22 in collaboration with Grammarly to help faculty incorporate generative AI into their classrooms.  Created by the Office of Academic...

President Jay Hartzell testified about diversity, equity and inclusion at a Texas Senate higher education subcommittee hearing on Monday. The hearing comes after Texas universities implemented Senate...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 8 de noviembre de 2024 por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Citlali Martinez Hernandez. UT hizo cambios en sus políticas...

UT made changes to its free speech policies over the summer, ranging from small terminology changes to entire sections added.  The University did not notify the campus community of policy changes....

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 28 de octubre por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Mariana Flores-Sosa. El proyecto de política de Texas de la universidad...

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed a lawsuit concerning Texas universities’ enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order on antisemitism to proceed in court. In May, pro-Palestine organizations...

The Moody Foundation granted $1.8 million to a statewide education research network, according to an Oct. 10 announcement from UT’s College of Education.  With its administrative hub in the College...

The University’s Texas Politics Project released its final election poll on Oct. 18, surveying registered Texas voters’ opinions on key issues like the economy and abortion access before Election...

The University suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee leader Wednesday until August 2025 for campus disruption during his participation in the pro-Palestine demonstration on April 24.  On Thursday,...

The University denied a claim that it is violating the Liberal Arts dean’s right to due process in an Oct. 18 letter. The American Association of University Professors claimed in an Oct. 13 statement...

Witnesses testified against a potential mask ban for protesters — which is intended to reveal the identities of people “bent on committing crimes at protests” —  at a Texas Senate State Affairs...

President Jay Hartzell will not allow the dean of the College of Liberal Arts to serve a second term because she did not have “a grand enough vision” for the college, according to an Oct. 2 article...

UT’s chapter of Atidna International hosted a vigil in front of the UT Tower on Sunday to grieve all innocent lives lost in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon in the last year of violence.  Last year’s...

About 125 students joined a walkout in front of the UT Tower on Thursday in the final event of the Palestine Solidarity Committee’s Week of Action, a series of events held to mark the one-year anniversary...

Palestinian and Lebanese flags lined the grass of the South Lawn for an Oct. 1 vigil, hosted by the Arab Students Association, to honor those killed within the past year in Gaza and Lebanon.  Hadi,...

About 65 students and faculty on Tuesday participated in a “die-in” on Main Mall, organized by Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine, to commemorate the first anniversary of Oct. 7.  Students...

The Daily Texan sat down with the director of the new Event Readiness and Response Unit, Joseph LoBrutto, to discuss the role of the new unit in managing campus events and student demonstrations. LoBrutto...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 1 de octubre  por Maryam Ahmed y Riley Walsh  y fue traducido al español por Maryella Diaz. El FBI arrestó a un hombre de Nevada...

The FBI arrested a Nevada man on Sept. 16 on charges of cyberstalking and transmitting interstate communications with threat to injure two high-level UT employees, according to a criminal complaint.  The...

The Travis County Sheriff's Office changed its “religious articles” policy earlier this month to allow female Muslim detainees to keep their hijabs and require jail staff to fulfill requests for modest...

UTPD Assistant Chief Shane Streepy will replace Eve Stephens as chief after her abrupt resignation on Friday.  Stephens, who formerly worked for the Austin Police Department, was sworn in as police...

Over 50 UT workers from the University’s chapter of the Texas State Employees Union rallied for a $10,000 across-the-board wage increase on Friday at the West Mall and along Guadalupe Street.   The...

An ongoing federal lawsuit filed by several pro-Palestinian organizations in May calls on Gov. Greg Abbott and state universities to stop enforcing an executive order addressing antisemitism on college...

Recent UT graduate Anne-Marie Jardine appealed a deferred suspension from the University after she was arrested at the pro-Palestine protest on campus on April 24. She learned on Aug. 19 that her appeal...

Anne-Marie Jardine and two other people locked arms on the South Lawn at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24 as police officers and state troopers pushed back the crowd of pro-Palestine protesters. One...

Law enforcement arrested at least 100 people today after protesters formed an encampment in support of Palestine on South Mall.  The event follows similar encampments at college campuses around the...

Hundreds of students and faculty walked out of class Thursday to participate in a “teach-in” on the Main Mall in response to at least 57 arrests at a pro-Palestine protest on Wednesday. Faculty...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 24 de abril del 2024 por Ren Leija, Naina Srivastava y Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Citlali Martinez Hernandez. ACTUALIZACIÓN:...

UPDATE: The number of confirmed arrests is now 57, according to the Travis County Sheriff's office, as of 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning. Hundreds of protesters chanted “free Palestine” and “off...

The Student Government passed a resolution last night calling for the creation of a student committee to preserve the resources in WCP 2.112. Advocates for the space attended the meeting to show their...

The Jackson School of Geosciences announced on March 27 the introduction of a climate system science bachelor’s degree this fall. The program is the first of its kind in Texas and one of the only...

Nota del Editor: Este artículo fue originalmente publicado por Maryam Ahmed el 9 de abril del 2024 y fue traducido al español por Sofia Estrada Ferrufino. Tres hombres atacaron a un estudiante...

Update: The attack will go before Austin Police Department's Hate Crimes Review Committee to determine if it will be classified as a hate crime in May. The investigation is still ongoing. Three...

Hundreds of students and staff holding posters filled a section of Speedway in a silent demonstration on Monday to protest the University’s response to Senate Bill 17. Approximately 300 people attended...

Protesters donned keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, chanted and held up signs near Jester Hall to protest the Israel Block Party occurring on Speedway Tuesday.  The Israel Block Party is the largest...

Ryan Wallace, a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Media, died in a fatal car accident on March 22.  Wallace was driving in Bastrop County when a concrete truck ran into a nearby school...

Former UT Arabic instructor, Amjad Shabat, along with her husband and 2-year-old daughter, was evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Cairo on March 15. Shabat and her family are in good health and have found...

The Civil Discord Symposium continued on Friday with a discussion about whether the United States was founded in 1619 or 1776.  Moderated by Justin Dyer, the inaugural Dean for the School of Civic...

UT will host the ‘Civil Discord’ symposium, a free, public series of dialogues about topics ranging from liberalism to race relations, on Thursday and Friday. The symposium is part of the College...

Student Government passed two joint resolutions on Feb. 27 to make claiming Advanced Placement exam credits easier for students. One joint resolution calls for the AP United States History exam to count...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 5 de marzo de 2024 por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Mariela Villela. El 12 de febrero, el Gobierno Estudiantil aprobó...

Student Government passed legislation supporting free and reduced-cost meal plans for off-campus students on Feb. 12. Business representative Jonathan Wilson, the author of the bill, said he initially...

Students voted in support of a new center to replace the Multicultural Engagement Center during a referendum in the Student Government elections on Feb. 26 and 27.  The election results were announced...

The University canceled a referendum about “The Eyes of Texas” tentatively scheduled for this week’s campus-wide elections as of last spring.   Following a years-long battle between students,...

Student Government passed legislation on Feb. 13 calling for the formation of a Waller Creek management team to clean up the creek and make it safer for students. While it’s unclear when the team...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 23 de febrero por Maryam Ahmed y fue traducido al español por Maria Fernanda Castro. Los estudiantes pueden comenzar a votar el lunes...

Students can begin voting on Monday for the executive alliance they would like to represent them in Student Government for the 2024-2025 academic year. Voting opens 8 a.m. on Monday Feb. 26 and...

UT Student Government approved a referendum on Tuesday to create a new center in the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activities Center in place of the Multicultural Engagement Center.  The Center shut...

The Nambala-Wilson, Barthel-McKiernan and Kelly-Grinnell Executive Alliance candidates convened Monday night in the William C. Powers, Jr. auditorium to debate topics ranging from food insecurity to diversity,...

UT Student Government approved a survey geared towards “non-traditional students” that will measure student interest in evening classes on Jan. 23.  Non-traditional students include students with...

The Austin-based rideshare app Fetii could reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions, a January study from a UT consulting student organization found.  Fetii is a rideshare service of private...

Student Government sent representatives to Washington D.C. for the Big 12 on the Hill conference from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1. The conference let student leaders advocate for issues impacting their universities...

The Austin Police Department is investigating the stabbing of a Palestinian-American man in West Campus on Sunday as “bias-motivated,” and the incident will be reviewed by the Hate Crimes Review Committee,...

An organization calling for the preservation of a historic Austin golf course hosted the NAACP at a press conference on Jan. 18 to publicize their efforts. UT owns the land on which the Lions Municipal...

In the 100 days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, Arab, Muslim and Jewish students said the ongoing conflict has taken a toll on their mental health, exacerbated...

At a talk by prominent Israeli activist Yaron Brook on Friday, protestors occasionally interrupted and tensions came to a head when UTPD forcibly escorted one protester out of the room and handcuffed them.  UTPD...

A UT alumnus started a petition — which now has almost 1,500 signatures — on Dec. 29, advocating for the approval of a humanitarian visa application for a former UT instructor currently stuck in Gaza. After...

Sami Haque rolled down Speedway on his skateboard with a Palestinian flag billowing behind him, passing out flyers that said in bold print: “Stop Arming Israel.”  As he weaved through the mass...

Every day before stepping out, Kira Berzack questions whether she should take off her Star of David necklace. Berzack said she’s proud of her Jewish identity, but fears the symbol could incite a reaction...

As violence continues to unfold in Israel and Palestine, students with loved ones in the region find outlets for their grief on campus by attending events like vigils. The Palestine Solidarity Committee...

The University is partnering with a new regional energy center, the HyVelocity Hub, to help bring the benefits of hydrogen energy to local communities vulnerable to pollution, the University announced...

Three men disrupted members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee at an educational event in Welch Hall on Oct. 12. The men repeatedly called PSC members and event attendees “terrorists.” One of the...

The Longhorn Band will attempt to raise $75 million in the next year for an endowment fund that will support generations of band members, the University announced Sept. 21.  The Longhorn Alumni Band...

A UT professor received a nationally acclaimed chemical engineering award that will be presented to him in Orlando, Florida in early November. Chemical engineering professor Hal Alper won the Andreas...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 28 de septiembre del 2023 por Maryam Ahmed o y fue traducido al español por Dieter Kingwergs. Un equipo de investigación de UT recibió...

A UT research team received a $2.6 million grant to research air pollution’s nonuniform effect on Travis County children. The grant, received from the National Institute of Health, focuses on the...