UT Austin is one of nine universities the Trump administration has asked to sign an agreement in order to receive an advantage in accessing federal funds. The letters from the White House came with a ...

Elderly man dies in southwest Houston house fire on Willow Lake Drive; HFD contained the blaze in about 20 minutes, and arson investigators are probing the cause. Read full article: Driver hits fire ...

UT Austin is one of two universities that has not publicly rejected the compact sent by the White House earlier this month. The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education asks universities to ...

The Trump administration has made a sweeping offer to the University of Texas at Austin: sign onto a hardline education overhaul in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. The UT System's ...

The University of Texas' Main Building Credit: Insightwm / CC-BY-SA-4.0 The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a ...

Last month, the Trump administration gave the University of Texas at Austin and a handful of other universities until Nov. 21 to decide whether they would agree to a series of policy changes in ...

Last month, the Trump administration gave the University of Texas at Austin and a handful of other universities until Nov. 21 to decide whether they would agree to a series of policy changes in ...

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