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Red McCombs Letter To Chairman Gene Powell
As posted @ http://pushjunction.com/press_releases/red-mccombs-letter-to-gene-powell RED MCCOMBS LETTER TO GENE POWELL Red McCombs Thanks Gene - For sharing your comments in the We’re Listening...
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UT Establishment: Allergic to Light?
UT Establishment: allergic to light 25 March 2011 by AgendaWise Reports The higher education establishment is worried, and Gene Powell is the one who worries them. The UT Board of [...]
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Are the State’s Biggest Universities Open to Change?
Are the state’s biggest universities open to change? by Bill Murchison @ dallasblog.com Sun, Mar 27, 2011, 07:06 PM A media storm over the future of the University of Texas [...]
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McCombs Event Highlights Innovation, Entrepreneurship Tied to UT
By Lisa Carter AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Entrepreneurs from 16 startups based on research at the University of Texas promoted their companies to investors Wednesday, kicking off the Texas Venture Week...
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University of Texas President: “We Need to Do More”
Reeve Hamilton Texas Tribune photo by: Justin Dehn University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers delivered a speech Monday — two days before the University of Texas System Board [...]
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UT Powers Wants to Stop Gov. Perry and UT Regents Dead in Their Tracks.
By William Lutz Powers announced change tenured professors can believe in UT President William Powers Jr. gave an unusual live address to the UT community Monday. His talk was officially [...]
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Dell to Give $5 Million for UT Social Innovation Competition
By Barry Harrell – AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Dell Inc. will give $5 million to the University of Texas over the next five years to expand a competition that encourages college students [...]
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Grads Reflect, Rejoice at Spring Commencement – Regent Pejovich Appearance
More than 2,100 UT Dallas students took a big step toward the real world as they crossed the stage Friday and Saturday in spring commencement ceremonies. The crowds celebrating at [...]
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Tillerson: The U.S. Public Education System for Children Needs Fundamental...
By ELIZABETH SOUDER AUSTIN — As Texas politicians debate whether to reorient universities toward teaching rather than research, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. gave a warning. Rex Tillerson [...]
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Austin’s Long on Ambience, But Short on Tech Talent
Joel Trammell and Larry Warnock, Local Contributors We have an engineering talent shortage in Austin. There. We said it. Let’s be clear. Austin has an abundance of so many things. [...]
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UT’s Cigarroa Chosen for National Education Advisory Group
President Barack Obama picked University of Texas Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa for a national education advisory group. Cigarroa will serve with other civic and education leaders nationally on the...
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Teaching Not Priority at UT – Why Public Colleges Are So Expensive
By Peggy Venable Long-awaited performance data at the University of Texas has now been analyzed by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The findings are nothing less than shocking [...]
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Entrepreneur and Perry Friend Sandefer, Puts Texas at Center of Higher Ed...
By S.C. GWYNNE and GARY JACOBSON, The Dallas Morning News In 1985, a young Harvard Business School student from Abilene named Jeff Sandefer had an idea to make money from [...]
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UT Has an Embarrassingly Low 4-year Graduation Rate
Rock The Ivory Tower: Reform Higher Ed. Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy in Texas higher ed, particularly at Texas A&M and The University of Texas, about [...]
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Video shows 3-D effects lighting up UT Tower
By Dave Doolittle The facade of the University of Texas appeared to vanish and then be rebuilt in cubes Wednesday night as part of filming a public service announcement that [...]
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D.C. Blogger Perpetuates Media Myths
By Weston Hicks Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin provided an example of why Republicans have been losing for so long today, when she dismissed Rick Perry in strong terms for [...]
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UT Vice President to Lose Job in Shake-Up. By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz The public affairs operation at the University of Texas is being reorganized, but all except one of about 20 staff members will keep their university employment. [...]
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APF and America’s Next Impact Statement on UT Board of Regents Meeting.
Statement on UT Board of Regents Meeting AUSTIN – Americans for Prosperity Foundation State Director Peggy Venable, and America’s Next Impact Director Chris Covo, issued the following statements today...
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UT Board of Regents Approves $30 Million Dollar Medical Program
By Mark Nino The Board of Regents for the University of Texas has approved a $30 million dollar plan to expand educational programs and recruit faculty in the Rio Grande [...]
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The Texas Accountability Debate Rages On
By Jonathan Robe With Texas Gov. Rick Perry at–or near the top–in polls to be the Republican nominee for President, his proposals for higher ed reform as Governor are gaining [...]
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