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Last month College Magazine, a student-run forum that reports on everything from football to budget cuts, crowned UT the most sexually active campus in America. Researchers examined party scenes, sexual health resources and “hookup cultures” to compile the rather crassly titled “10 Most DTF Campuses” list.
Two weeks ago at the University of Michigan, Tadeusz Patzek, chair of UT’s Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, debated John Hofmeister, former Shell Oil CEO, about how to deal with the diminishing availability of cheap oil.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas.
The court said Tuesday it will return to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for the first time since its 2003 decision endorsing the use of race as a factor in admissions. This time around, a more conservative court is being asked to outlaw the use of Texas' affirmative action plan and possibly to jettison the earlier ruling entirely.
During his speech Friday at the University of Michigan, President Barack Obama scrutinized the rising cost of attending college. Echoing sentiments from his State of the Union speech last week, Obama put publicly funded universities “on notice” to rein in tuition or face a decrease in federal funding.
President Barack Obama proposed incentive-based federal aid in which more affordable colleges receive more aid. UT President William Powers Jr. said the plan is sound, but kinks need to be worked out to ensure consideration for the expense of maintaining a top research university like UT.
WASHINGTON — Fuzzy math, Illinois State University’s president called it. “Political theater of the worst sort,” said the University of Washington’s head.
President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach. Particularly sharp words came from the presidents of public universities; they’re already frustrated by increasing state budget cuts.
The Association of University Technology Managers surveyed a variety of institutions whose research led to the creation of new companies in the fiscal year of 2010. UT Austin did not score high on the survey.
Athletics is a university’s front porch.
This timeless adage is the mantra spread by the NCAA, co-opted by university presidents, athletic directors and coaches alike.
According to a report by the NCAA, only 22 of the 120 universities that participate in the Football Bowl Subdivision generated a surplus in their athletic departments last year, with the average surplus being about $7.4 million. Meanwhile, the other 98 teams fielded an average deficit of $11.6 million.
It is a nation’s duty to record the truth through archives and to overcome the challenges of assembling those archives, said John Ciorciari, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.
Ciorciari lectured Monday as part of a series on human rights sponsored by the Rapoport Center in the School of Law.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A prosecutor in New York is investigating whether students in other districts on Long Island took part in a cheating scam on college entrance exams that resulted in the arrest of seven current or former students at a prestigious high school.
The arrests were made Tuesday on allegations that one of the seven associated with Great Neck North High School — a 19-year-old college student — took the SAT exams for the others in exchange for payments of up to $2,500.
A federal appeals court handed down a win for UT in a lawsuit examining its consideration of race in admissions decisions, but the case could still have life if the plantiffs take it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Spann family seems to have a genetic advantage in the pool.
Senior captain Scott Spann, who was a finalist in the 200-meter breaststroke in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has been picked for Team USA in the FINA World Championships this summer in Shanghai.
Like his son, Scott Spann Sr. also swam at UT and won an NCAA championship under head coach Eddie Reese. At one time, he held five American records and just as many world records.
As a popular UT history professor finished his last class Friday, wrapping up 29 years at the University, former students and colleagues honored him with a jazz band ensemble that played “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
