While it’s certainly reassuring to know that our school is more “efficient” than say, Texas A&M, being better than most doesn’t make us “good” by default.
Measuring public dollars against faculty population says nothing about a university’s efficiency but does say a good deal about how much current state government values education.
What started off as a seemingly unrealistic idea formally proposed to the administration two years ago by then-Student Government President Liam O’Rourke is now a full-fledged reality.
The Aug. 1 article about Joe Nicols and his battling stereotypes of paranormalists was a fascinating delve into a fantasy world that seems out of place at an institution of learning.
If we would compare professors to baseball players, you cannot be just a home run hitter or just a good fielder or just a good base stealer. You have to do it all. Research isn’t just lab research. Teaching isn’t “just teaching” because each teacher keeps up to date, through literature in his or her field, and this study is “research.”
Last week, 25 UT students were hosted by local families for two nights at the halfway point of their Texas 4000 bicycle ride to Anchorage, Ala. But what we received in return from this group of Texans was far greater.