Higher education

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."

The changes to the new rating system — which gives districts a letter grade in three categories: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps — were finalized during the 2017 legislative session.

The schools still need approval from the Texas Senate.

Wilson is a former member of Congress and the secretary of the Air Force. Her nomination has generated backlash over her anti-LGBTQ voting record.

Late last month, the University of Texas at Austin denied the Beto O'Rourke campaign's request to pass out flyers on campus. If Senate Bill 18 becomes law, the university would have had to grant permission.

The House also signed off on a $9 billion supplemental budget that would withdraw $4.3 billion from the state savings account.

Texas added Airbnb to a short list of companies that can’t receive state money because they boycott Israel, though Airbnb says it does not. Now, employees at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer stay in Airbnbs while on school business.

Student activists, professors and community members have rallied to oppose Wilson's nomination, citing her anti-LGBTQ voting record.

Hall led a heated battle to reform the school's admissions procedures, which led to reforms in 2015. But after a UT tennis coach was accused of taking a bribe to help a student gain admission, Hall says more needs to be done.

University President Greg Fenves announced the firing in an email and said, "The integrity of UT admissions is essential to our mission as a research university and to the students and families we serve."

On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Patrick, Matthew and Jay about whenever the heck Beto O’Rourke is going to announce his next move, the admissions scandal facing colleges across the country, including UT-Austin, and "Border Hustle," a big Tribune collaboration with Time Magazine.

A tennis coach at the University of Texas was among those charged in the fallout from the scandal.

The announcement, made in an internal email, is part of a new but expected wave of cuts aimed at trimming the system's overhead.

According to court documents, Michael Center accepted $100,000 to help a student gain admission to the university through the tennis program. He is one of dozens of people named in a growing national college bribery scandal. "He is innocent," his lawyer said.

Powers presided over the university from 2006 to 2015.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously picked Wilson to replace UTEP's longtime leader, Diana Natalicio.