Higher education

Natalicio, 79, steps down this week as UTEP's president after becoming the first woman to hold the position in 1988.

The lawmaker, a doctor by training, will oversee a network of six health institutions with four medical schools, two dental schools and three nursing schools.

Although policies restricting children’s presence in the workplace are common, the introduction of one at Stephen F. Austin State University has been met with monthslong resistance from some faculty members.

The Legislature gave a $17.3 million funding boost to the two-year colleges, which are part of the Texas State University System.

Last year, five of the top 10 highest-compensated public university leaders in the country were from Texas schools, according to a survey conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The UT System allocated $160 million of its oil money for the project.

The Baptist university has denied a charter to Gamma Alpha Upsilon for eight years, members say.

The Legislature designated the funding for the Amarillo campus over objections of Texas A&M University, which currently runs the only veterinary medicine school in the state.

A 2018 report from the Texas Tribune found more than 4,200 people in the state — including security guards, cosmetologists and pharmacists – were at risk of losing their license because of student loan default in 2017.

The final version of the bill is expected to require cities, counties and emergency service districts to hold an election before raising 3.5% more property tax revenue than the previous year. Community colleges and hospital districts would need to do so at 8%.

“We look forward to your continued service as our president,” A&M System Chancellor John Sharp wrote in a letter to Young.

Senate Bill 18 would require universities to create disciplinary sanctions for students who interfere with free speech activities. It would still allow universities to put restrictions on the time, place and manner of such activities.

After it failed to move out of the House Higher Education Committee on Monday, a proposal to bring back the annual game seems all but dead.

The medical school is projected to accept a class of 30 students for Fall 2020.

A college student's research helped bring together community leaders to organize a public ceremony to tell Grover Everett’s story.

Watch video of our conversation in Fort Worth on improving higher education outcomes, moderated by the Tribune's Shannon Najmabadi.

Texas State University administrators and the student body president blocked the student senate's attempt to ban the conservative group Turning Point USA from campus.

Congressional internships in Washington, D.C., have traditionally been unpaid. While some Texans in Congress have paid some of their interns in the past, those opportunities were not always well-publicized.

Michael Center is accused of accepting a $100,000 bribe to help a student pose as a tennis recruit in order to get into school.

A little-known and ill-defined provision in state statute offers big tax breaks to landowners who host university research on their property. Two lawmakers are trying — again — to close the "loophole."