Texas Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, encourages attendees at the 2013 African American Legislative Summit to give back to the community and "make things better for all of our young people."
Faculty from UT and Texas A&M express concern over the push for increasing graduation rates. They fear that the quality of education students receive may suffer.
A swelling Hispanic population will continue to affect public policy related to immigration and education in Texas according to speakers at the Texas Tribune Event Series.
Steps to limit regents' powers over individual university instutitions comes after allegations of the micromanagement of UT Austin President William Powers Jr.
