The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

University of Texas students rebuked the racist attack on South Asians by Republican Bo French.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  Sys...

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The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

UT is removing courses from its existing requirements even as questions remain about the new curriculum’s scope, transferability and implementation, Julie Avril Minich writes.

A guiding principle of President Jim Davis’s leadership at UT Austin has been “stewardship.” Nearly all of his signature initiatives have been justified by invoking this concept.

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Texas State University saw the nation's biggest drop in a new campus free speech ranking. State of play: Texas colleges overall lost ground in the latest national ranking from the civil liberties grou...

The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...

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Texas professors say concerns about academic freedom and restrictions on what can be taught have prompted them to look at jobs outside the state.

Great colleges and universities prepare students for the future by teaching them how to think — not what to think. That’s why public institutions must firmly uphold academic freedom and First Amendmen...

UTRGV has kept a tenured professor off campus for 16 months — no hearing, no resolution, and no answer about whether he'll ever teach again.

Leaders of the Texas GOP cannot spend years stoking suspicion of outsiders, then act surprised when a candidate says the quiet part out loud, the Editorial Board writes.

Many Republicans criticized the post, some in more direct terms than others.

Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.

The survey found a significant spike in the number of faculty worried about physical threats to their safety.

Texas A&M University ranks 192 out of 261 schools in the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings with a score of 57 and an F speech climate grade, dropping 145 pla...

On Sept. 1st, Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) across Texas were asked to sign a form specifying what future teachers can be taught and what kinds of academic experiences can be included in their ...

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Professor Lina-Maria Murillo about the dismantling of ethnic studies and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Murillo, an associate profess...

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Union members gathered at an AFT pre-convention session Wednesday to discuss building power in overlooked communities, with Texas AFT President Zeph Capo calling for more rural voices to shape the uni...

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The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

More than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, could no longer count toward core degree requirements at 11 Texas A&M universities.

His partisan, combative style has remade the century-old organization. Not everyone is pleased.

What determines whether a college degree is worth it?

Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.

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The University of Houston System Board of Regents has approved removing about 40 percent of the courses that counted toward its flagship institution’s core curriculum requirements.

A century ago, Mexican American families came together to build an adobe church near the border. Can its bell toll again as the wall expansion nears?