Colleges and Universities

University of Texas Scientists Plead with Lawmakers to Please Kill Intelligent Design Bill

State Representative Bill Zedler's legislative career can be summed up as a quixotic attempt to foist his puritanical worldview onto the state's 26 million residents. Backdoor abortion bans, stripper licensing, Sharia law bans, making life unnecessarily difficult for gay college kids. Whatever your ... More >>

The University of North Texas Banned Alcohol at Frat Parties Yesterday

In the predawn hours on Saturday, January 26, University of North Texas student Dustin Starks, 20, fell from the balcony of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house. He survived, but just barely. Nearly two weeks later, he remains at Parkland Hospital in serious condition. In the wake of the accident, ... More >>

Vaccine Mandate Has Contributed to the Sharp Enrollment Drop at Texas Community Colleges

With the recent recession came a corresponding boom at two-year colleges as students sought to gain marketable job skills without shelling out big bucks to attend costlier four-year institutions. That boom is now over, and the numbers in Texas are bearing that out. Between fall 2011 and fall 2012, ... More >>

Rick Perry's Sales Pitch for Cheaper, Dumber Universities Is a Lie

All you ambitious students out there, please take time to understand what Governor Rick Perry is really doing to you when he says he wants to help you graduate from college. It's the opposite. See also: - Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle What Perry really wants to do is the same old thing he has ... More >>

SMU Rule Caps Parties at 400 Students, Leaves Greek System "Totally in Awe"

SMU is not known as a party school, at least according to the party-school power rankers. But this is still college, where people have a tendency to gather in large groups and drink, and the school does have a robust Greek scene, so there are parties at SMU, and they can get pretty big. But only to ... More >>

Here's What an SMU Sorority Party Playlist Looks Like

See also: Ten songs to accompany very specific dorm-room scenarios The first weekend of the SMU school year is here, which means some of our local co-eds, the ones blessed with those elusive hosting genes, will spend today pestering of-age classmates for booze, hiding their valuables and vacuuming ... More >>

Gates Family Yanks $4.3 Million Grant from Texas Community Colleges, Calls System "Disorganized"

Two years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Completion by Design, a $35 million program aimed at dramatically increasing the graduation rates of community college students. The money was parceled out to nine target states, Texas among them. The Texas group was spearheaded by the Lon ... More >>

Gail Spurlock, the State Ed Board Candidate Who Thinks Pilgrims Were Commies, Didn't Graduate from College

You know Gail Spurlock for finally revealing to the world that the Pilgrims were not only a persecuted religious minority who established a beachhead of European settlement in North America but were, more importantly, communists. It's why they died. This wouldn't have been terribly newsworthy were S ... More >>

How to Cut the Price of Higher Ed: Don't Pay It

So Teresa Sullivan, the president who didn't cut costs at the University of Virginia, got her job back anyway. Meanwhile making the rounds of newspaper op-ed pages is an essay by Jeff Selingo, editorial director of The Chronicle of Higher Education, saying the way to get college costs down is more ... More >>

UT-Dallas: Way Less Fun and Way More Expensive than UT-Austin

It wasn't without some pride that I saw last week that my alma mater, the University of Texas at Dallas, had earned what may be its first superlative. (Okay, maybe its second, but the most-hideous-architecture label was unofficial). The Texas Tribune has helpfully compiled a list of average tuition ... More >>

Purple Hazed

Pledge took beating, not oath, to become Omega Psi Phi.

UNT Finds What Jerry Jones Can't: Someone to Spend Mean Green on Stadium Naming Rights

Do you believe in the mean green? When that green's stacked in $20 million, sure.​Don't tell the bossman, but the University of North Texas done found someone to pony up puh-lenty for the naming rights to the new football stadium. Per a press release just sent out, Apogee will spend $20 million ov ... More >>

C'mon Down to Rick's Sheepskin Bargain Warehouse!

A $10k bachelor's: Do you get fries with that?

A Pro-Guns-On-Campus Buzz! (Someone Else Wrote It)

Study Says Dallas Am Not Be Very Literate

Via Threadless​Don't get defensive. That's just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America's Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six " ... More >>

A Good (Educated, Latino) Man is Hard to Find.

How Can Immigrant Students Score Fake Residency Papers?

Kappa Kappa Slasha

Paul Quinn's President is Defiant in Wake of Ruling: "There is No Doomsday Scenario."

Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell​Turns out, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell was available to talk to us today, following the news that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools refused to reinstate the the 137-year-old institution's accreditation. Not ... More >>

Prepare For Lift-Off

Art Rehab

A Week After Losing Its Accreditation, the Fate of Paul Quinn College Still Up in the Air

Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College president Michael SorrellMore questions than answers remain about the future of Paul Quinn College a week after its president announced the institution's loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Michael Sorrell last Friday explain ... More >>

Fat Soap

The Inwood warms up Fight Club

Yay, SMU! You're No. 66!

Will State Higher-Ed Board Make Creationism "Science" This Week? Mebbe So ...

Waytago, Lew Calver! Yours is the Best Fake Bush Library in the World!

Welcome to George Bush's ... Fun Ranch?

UT Dallas Is a Wise Investment

Is Creationism Science? Dunno. "Not a Scientist."

The Mighty Quinn (Well, Mightier)

Onscreen Education

Search for clues at the Modern

Daily Campus Wonders if SMU Needs a Stronger Dose of the Truth

A Week Later, Perry's Line-Item Veto Still Flunking Out at Community Colleges

Lifesavas

Tuesday, June 5, at the Palladium Loft

In State, But Outta Luck?

Purple Reign

Barney takes the stage

Go...uh...Canada!

Zoot Suit Riot

Get down with a pachuco at the LCC

Shopping Art

Salvador Dalí hits the mall

Boomer Sooner Bonanza

North Texas is a fertile hunting ground for OU recruiters

More Cops for UTD Dorm

Plus: Dialing for Dollars

The Dorm From Hell

Black mold, broken toilets and leaking ceilings can make life miserable at UTD's Waterview Park. Then there's the crime.

"Nice Kid, But..."

To get into the right college, sometimes you have to be better than perfect

ICE, ICE Babies

SMU kids learn about life outside The Bubble

Best Private Preschool

The da Vinci School

Reverend Fix-It

Itinerant minister Charles Wilkerson promised to restore two ailing Christian schools to financial health. So why did the patients take a turn for the worse?

Best Place to Improve One's Living Space

Home Concepts

The Graduates

SMU's Meadows School of the Arts makes a tentative mark on the world

Fast Times at UTA

Ryan Amacher says he's leading the University of Texas at Arlington into a glorious future. But his critics fear his passion for pomp and party will run it into the ground.

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