Working at The Daily Texan led to a lot of firsts for me. It was the first time I’d ever written for a newspaper. I applied on a whim in the middle of the summer before my senior year because I wasn’t...
The Tower remained dark Monday night as the University honored distinguished alumna Margaret C. Berry, who died just after midnight Sunday, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
“Margaret...
State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, has partnered with the Dell Medical School to innovate psychiatric care in Central Texas and replace the Austin State Hospital, which was built in the 1850s.
The Texas...
From serving in the White House with President Bill Clinton to being a political commentator on CNN, UT alumnus Paul Begala returned to campus Tuesday for a talk titled “Don’t Whiz in the Well...
There are currently only four psychiatrists on staff at UT to serve the mental health needs of 50,000 students. A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives may help improve psychiatric services...
Two apartment complexes located on 22nd and San Gabriel streets were evacuated shortly after 3 p.m. due to a gas leak, according to a tweet sent out from Austin Fire Department.
2 apartment complexes...
A UT student was sexually assaulted near campus late Saturday night, according to a campus-wide alert from the University of Texas Police Department.
The Austin Police Department informed UTPD...
Plans for the UT System’s heavily criticized Houston expansion have come to an end.
In a memo to the Board of Regents Wednesday, UT System Chancellor William McRaven said his decision to cancel...
Update (3:26 p.m.): Canvas as well as other Amazon Web Services applications are back online after the root of the outage was identified.
According to the Canvas website, they are still...
Legal and counseling services for immigrants in Austin received a $200,000 boost from the Austin City Council on Thursday.
The funding is added to an existing contract, in place with the Catholic Charities...
Over the weekend, 51 people were arrested in the Austin area by federal immigration officers, which has led to rumors surrounding Austin Police Department’s involvement with these arrests, according...
Update (1:14 p.m.): Ellen DeGeneres will begin her giveaway at 3:30 p.m. at the Main Mall, according to her Twitter.
How fast can you pull together a Beyonce costume, @UTAustin? Meet you...
A grant of $29 million for alcoholism treatment research may pave the way for new discoveries in the field at UT.
The National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $29 million to the Integrative...
Close to 100 LGBT community members and allies packed into a lecture hall at the UT School of Law Thursday night to discuss ways to promote LGBT advocacy
in Austin.
The Austin LGBT Bar Association,...
Students who use Megabus services will have to walk a bit farther than usual to get to the service’s new terminal located on 15th Street and San Jacinto Boulevard.
Megabus spokesperson Sean Hughes...
Campus carry is here to stay, but some students are eager to change the law going into the new year.
The law, which went into effect Aug. 1, prompted several student protests against it during...
Susan Nelson was at a friend’s house in 1993 when a robber shot her in the back of the head. The gun belonged to Nelson’s friend, who had stored it away, but the robber was able to retrieve...
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. released a letter last Friday arguing more work needs to be done by universities to ensure campuses are safe, inclusive and supportive environments, which encourage...
A second MindBody Lab opened Monday in the Student Activity Center just in time for finals week, when stress for college students can reach all-time highs.
The lab features audio and video instruction...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and two UT System Board of Regents members filed court briefs last week in favor of Regent Wallace Hall’s lawsuit against Chancellor William McRaven.
This...
With the rise of fake news during the 2016 presidential election, Austin, Texas had its own taste of viral misinformation in the post-election aftermath.
“Anti-Trump protestors in Austin...
Students at UT-Austin have been working for more than a year now to bring better working conditions to those employed in factories with sweatshop conditions where UT-Austin apparel is created, according...
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for higher education policy will reverse legislation already in place if implemented.
In 2010, President Barack Obama moved to allow the federal...
A collaborative governmental education agency sent its report to the governor earlier this month on how to develop strong links between education and the work industry.
In March, Gov. Greg Abbott authorized...
About 100 students and LBJ Future Forum members interested in public policy packed a room nearly to capacity Tuesday evening to hear GOP strategists and commentators discuss president-elect Donald Trump’s...
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing to bring back year-round Pell Grants, which allow students across the nation and at UT to access federal aid during summer semesters.
Currently,...
UT President Gregory Fenves said in a University-wide email Monday that the University is developing policies to support students, faculty and staff of all political affiliations following the results...
The final UT System Board of Regents meeting scheduled for the year was held Wednesday, where members of the board listened to recommendations on how to proceed into the upcoming year.
The 85th Texas...
Forty-one percent of universities, including UT–Austin, are using predictive analytics for targeted student advising, adaptive online coursework or forecasting class size and financial aid need,...
When UT Austin President Gregory Fenves returned to the University as Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering in 2008, he was surprised to learn that the four-year graduation rate was just over...
Journalism senior Taylor Rice was sitting in a bar as she watched the results of the 2016 election unfold.
“I watched for over three hours until I saw [Trump] won and I watched his speech,”...
Republican Congressman Lamar Smith was elected for his 15th term representing the 21st Congressional District of Texas last night.
Smith won 57 percent of the vote, beating out Democratic candidate...
Last night’s election helped fill four seats in the Austin City Council, with a runoff election for District 10 planned for later this year. Four of the five candidates who led the polls were in...
“Facts don’t care about your feelings” is conservative journalist Ben Shapiro’s catchphrase, which he uses to denounce views of the left that he believes stifle freedom of...
President Barack Obama’s changes to higher education during his time in office have impacted students at UT-Austin and universities nationwide.
The Obama Administration worked to make college...
Black students owe twice the amount of student loan debt white students do four years after graduation, according to a report released by the Brookings Institution.
The Brookings report...
Close to 15 pro-environment activists from Environment Texas dressed as zombies and polar bears from a post-global warming world and marched outside UT Chancellor William McRaven’s office Friday...
A student-created petition calling for the University to suspend Young Conservatives of Texas as a result of their anti-affirmative action bake sale has gathered more than 800 signatures, while the Campus...
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson are polling closely, according to averaged polling data from Real Clear Politics, but their positions when...
Update 7:02 p.m.: Among the tablers on the West Mall, the Young Conservatives of Texas held a bake sale — but instead of selling cookies for charity, they used baked goods to express their opinions...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his plans to lower caps for loan income-driven repayment plans at an Oct. 13 rally.
Trump said he plans to combat the current U.S. student loan...
UT-Austin has been ranked at No. 30 in the world in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Global Universities.
According to a UT press release, this marks the fourth time this year the University has...
The divide in voter preference is growing between those with and without a college education, according to a survey performed by the Pew Research Center.
The survey, which was conducted in August,...
Four paralympic athletes spoke Thursday evening to share their stories of succeeding in their respective sports and representing the United States on an international stage.
The Paralympic Games is...
The corporation that manages investments benefiting the University of Texas System and Texas A&M System is looking for a new CEO after Bruce Zimmerman, the previous CEO, resigned last week.
Zimmerman...
New America, a think tank in Washington D.C., conducted a survey of 800 Democrats, Republicans and Independents which showed Americans believe higher education is “necessary but expensive.”...
When Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton presented her plan to make tuition at public colleges and universities free over the summer, it garnered considerable praise from the left, but some...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is no stranger to the anti-abortion community, as he has pushed for limits on abortion procedures throughout his political career and plans to continue to support further restrictions...
“Moving forward through looking back” is how public affairs and history professor Peniel Joseph described a panel which aimed to address problems the Black Power Movement encountered and how...
Located on UT System-owned land in west Austin, one of Texas’ first desegregated golf courses was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places...
Biology senior Rahil Gour started a petition last week calling for the repeal of the increase in transcript prices, gaining 6,000 supporters in a week since its creation.
Last Monday, the Office...
About 70 black students laid in front of the UT Tower on Thursday to bring attention to issues facing black college students across the nation, while non-black allies stood in solidarity holding up signs...
Adding more gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus is an issue University-wide Representative Ashley Choi has been working on for the majority of the year, and she is hopeful campus building managers will...
The number of female undergraduates and faculty in the engineering departments at UT are trending upward, and the Women in Engineering Program is working to make those numbers match the demographic of...
UT System Regent Wallace Hall recently filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court for access to confidential student records, his second in the case he brought against Chancellor William McRaven in...
Banning guns in classrooms is not allowed at UT, and if a faculty member is found to have done this, they will face disciplinary action from the University, according to the UT handbook of operating...
Anti-campus carry graduate students who don’t have offices of their own will soon begin to host office hours at Hole in the Wall, a bar located on Guadalupe Street across from the University.
There...
The UT System is developing TEx, a new online learning platform, which will benefit students in the System and bring a UT education to potential students around
the world.
The Board of Regents established...
A new rule in Texas will require fetal remains from abortions and miscarriages to be buried or cremated.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission introduced the rule early in July with little...
Panelists at the Texas Tribune Festival met over the weekend to discuss issues in higher education affecting students across Texas.
The slow growth of racial diversity and high tuition costs at Texas...
Republican campaign strategists and political pundits gathered over the weekend at the Texas Tribune Festival to discuss the reckoning force with which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bulldozed...
The 2016 election is coming to a close, but the events leading to now have caused some to be concerned for the future. Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune moderates a discussion Sunday about the 2016 presidential...
Funding for higher education is a hot topic going into the next legislative session. There have been talks in 2016 of cutting tuition set-asides and possibly cutting parts of the Hazelwood Act. The Texas...
Increasing student diversity on college continues to be a growing concern for Texans. Last year, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board presented 60X30TX, a plan that would increase the number...
A lawsuit filed against UT System Chancellor William McRaven by Board of Regents Member Wallace Hall was denied last week.
On Sept. 15, three judges from the Third Court of Appeals unanimously ruled...
Several Texas universities have started to offer online therapy programs through their counseling centers. UT is currently monitoring the programs at these schools before implementing it as a part of the...
UT saw a higher four-year graduation rate and increased Hispanic and African American enrollment in 2016, according to a preliminary report released by the University Monday.
The report shows 60.9 percent...
Singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne canceled his Thursday show at Bass Concert Hall, citing campus carry as one of his concerns.
“I realize this is a controversial issue and there are strong feelings...
George Yancey, a sociology professor at the University of North Texas, held a lecture Monday on what Christianity can teach about increasing interracial communication on racism.
The event was sponsored...
Three bullet casings have been found around campus, according to Patricia Roberts-Miller, a professor in the rhetoric and writing department.
Roberts-Miller said a staff member found a bullet casing...
A bullet casing was found inside a campus building Friday on top of a board holding a Gun Free UT sign which had been written on.
Casey Boyle, rhetoric and writing professor, posted on Twitter Friday...
The Archer Fellowship Program brought UT alumnus Arjun Rawal from Austin to Washington D.C. and provided him with an experience he said greatly impacted his time as a student.
The UT System offers the...
Student Government approved the 2016-2017 budget at Tuesday’s meeting, and representatives presented legislation for the upcoming school year.
Members of SG approved the budget unanimously. Legislation...
The House Higher Education Committee held a meeting Tuesday to hear recommendations on how to amend the Texas Hazlewood Act going into the next legislative session.
The Hazlewood Act allows qualified...
Three arrests related to the Sigma Chi fraternity shooting early Sunday morning were made at 26 West apartments at around 11:30 p.m., according to an officer on the scene.
The shooting at the Sigma...
A shooting early this morning at the Sigma Chi house has left one person injured.
APD responded to gunshots at 27th and Nueces streets around 3 a.m. in the morning. There was a party at the time and...
In response to San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to not stand for the national anthem before a football game, UT System Chancellor William McRaven sent out a memo Aug. 29...
The UT Senate of College Councils kicked off the fall semester Thursday to pass Senate Resolution 1602, a piece of legislation supporting the continuation of tuition set asides for Texas public universities.
Up...
Texas is not the first state to have concealed weapons in college classrooms, and in other states with campus carry, the controversy behind the law has died down, accompanied only by minor gun-related...
The Lions Municipal Golf Course, a piece of land owned by the UT System, was added to the National Register of Historic Places over the summer, but that may not stop developments once the city’s...
The 60x30TX plan — introduced last year by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board — aims to ensure 60 percent of those between the ages of 25 to 34 have a college certificate or...
While some on campus have protested the implementation of campus carry since the beginning of the semester, other students, faculty and members of the Austin community support the law and wish to educate...
The UT System established the ConTex office last week to oversee the partnership between UT System institutions and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology, also known as CONACYT.
The...
The Counseling and Mental Health Center may not be able to offer their services immediately due to a lack of funding.
According to Terri Bohuslav, executive assistant to the associate vice...
The Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention program received a $30 million budget to fund equipment in order to encourage faculty research.
The $30 million budget, which was approved...
The Board of Regents met last week to approve a $17.9 billion budget for the 2017 fiscal year, a 5.4 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.
According to UT System Chancellor William McRaven,...
CBS Austin and The Daily Texan hosted a town hall Monday at the AT&T Conference Center to discuss the campus carry law with panelists from both sides of the debate.
Senate Bill 11, more commonly...
Panels honoring fallen Confederate soldiers who served during the Civil War have been removed from campus without the University notifying the UT community.
On July 7, the panels were marked...
Students, faculty and Austin community members gathered in the West Mall on Wednesday, wielding dildos and shouting “Cocks not glocks” in unison.
The crowd was protesting campus carry,...
Eleven faculty members received recognition from the UT System as recipients of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.
The award is given annually to outstanding UT system professors who innovate...
The Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education held a public hearing Tuesday morning at the Capitol to review the effectiveness of tuition set-asides, a program mandated by state law which reallocates...
Students are tying dildos to their backpacks on the first day of the fall semester in protest of the new campus carry law that went into effect Aug. 1.
Anti-campus carry movement Cocks not Glocks held...
An attempt to block recent campus carry policies from taking effect was denied by a federal judge Monday, two days before students begin classes for the fall semester.
In July, three UT professors sued...
To voice their disapproval of the campus carry laws that went into effect Aug. 1, anti-campus carry movement Cocks Not Glocks has organized a protest for the first day of class in which participants will...
On the morning of Aug. 1, 1966, Charles Whitman purchased one of the seven weapons found with him on the observation deck of the Tower. Whitman was sold a 12-gauge shotgun at Sears Roebuck & Co. at...
The most defining quality of the millennial generation will be its racial diversity, according to an article published on the Brookings Institution website.
The article, written by William Frey,...
As night fell on the Texas Peace Officer Memorial monument on Thursday, hundreds gathered with blue ribbons pinned to their clothes and blue glow sticks in hand to remember and recognize the five officers...
Starting on Aug. 1, those with a License to Carry (LTC) will be permitted to carry a concealed handgun on campus.
During the fall 2015 semester, the Campus Carry Policy Working Group developed 25 policies...
The Austin Department of Transportation began conducting undercover operations to hand out citations to Arcade City drivers, who the city says are violating city laws.
Arcade City is a online group...
The Freshman Research Initiative in the College of Natural Sciences helps improve both STEM major retention and the graduation rates for students involved in the program, according to a recent study.
The...
