Higher Education

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 >>

DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals

Too bad they won’t do that for the students

Big Cities Have a Glut of Lawyers While Small Towns Suffer

Everybody knows the Shakespeare quote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." It's the stuff of T-shirts. But how many people know what it was about? In Henry VI, Dick the Butcher proposes killing all of England's lawyers as the first step toward accomplishing the treasonous plot of J ... 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 >>

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 >>

UNT May Merge its Denton and Fort Worth Schools

The University of North Texas System just announced that it's considering merging its flagship Denton campus with the UNT Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The UNT System Board of Regents will decide Monday whether to authorize a study of the merger, which would then require approval by the stat ... More >>

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

America's for-profit colleges offer education only a con man (or a congressman) could love.

For-Profit Colleges Only a Con Man Could Love

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

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 >>

DeVry Wants to Train its Caribbean Med Students in Texas Hospitals. But Is That Legal?

If you're like me, you associate DeVry with grainy daytime TV advertisements from the mid-1990s hawking cut-rate degrees in things like medial records and mechanical drafting. But the for-profit college has apparently been moving up in the world, now training not only your stenographer but your doct ... 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 >>

U.S. District Judge Furgeson Is Named Dean of UNT's Downtown Dallas Law School

​One week ago today, during council's chat about the coming bond program, the subject of the UNT Dallas College of Law came up: Angela Hunt wanted to know when the university would take over the old Municipal Building, at which point City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, "They're a good way ... More >>

TEA: More Texas Students Are Taking the SAT. Problem Is, Scores Keep Dropping.

​A little while ago, in this item below, Mike MacNaughton posted a link to this freshly minted release from the Texas Education Agency, which leads with the good news: "Texas has experienced a huge increase in the number of college-bound minority students who take the SAT college admissions test." ... More >>

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)

Tiffany Derry Defends For-Profit Culinary Schools

​Dallas chef Tiffany Derry this week dove into the maelstrom surrounding financial assistance at for-profit colleges, arguing in an essay for The Hill that the government is threatening the culinary arts by withholding loans from students enrolled in career schools. The Department of Educatio ... More >>

D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers Should Have Taken The Schutze Short Course On How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist.

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

Bodies to Hit the Floor in the Old West End Marketplace Beginning Saturday

Photos by Kimberly ThorpeDr. Roy Glover, chief medical director and spokesperson for Bodies: The Exhbition. You can check out more photos in our slide show.​You shouldn't be grossed out by the cadavers and bones on display at the new Bodies: The Exhibition, which has already taken over the first f ... More >>

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

Case En Pointe

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

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

UT Dallas Is a Wise Investment

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

The Mighty Quinn (Well, Mightier)

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?

At Thirteen and Counting, Dallas County Will Clear the Name of One More Innocent Man Today

Purple Reign

Barney takes the stage

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

Dr. Disaster

When the world is falling to pieces, emergency doctor Paul Pepe makes order from chaos

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

Diversopoly

Got what it takes for law school? Play the game and find out.

Best Place to Improve One's Living Space

Home Concepts

The Fugitive

Child psychiatrist Robert Gross claims malicious federal prosecutors unfairly charged him with fraud and forced him to flee to England. Is it the doctor or the judicial system that is out of touch with reality?

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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