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FERPA (or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is commonly used to hide information from the public, but this time, the University of Texas-Austin can’t stop a scandal from ballooning in the public eye. There are accusations that unqualified students were admitted to the university due to political connections.

At the South by Southwest education conference in Austin, Texas recently, on a panel entitled “What’s Next for Access and Affirmative Action?” administrators such as Anne-Marie Nunez from the University of Texas (UT) system revealed some of their thought processes. Nunez, an associate professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at UT, San Antonio, explained […]

Beth Akers of the Brookings Institution, co-author of controversial research on the status of student loans, downplays the significance of the more than $1.3 trillion in debts held by Americans. “Debt is increasing steadily across all levels” of higher education”, Akers said recently at a conference in Austin. She formerly who served as a staff […]

On a panel promoting pre-Kindergarten programs at a conference recently in Austin, Texas, a pair of government officials–one local, one federal–made their case. Representing the City of New York, Richard Buery suggested that employing universal preschool is the number-one issue for Mayor Bill de Blasio. To critics of increasingly centralized learning schemes, Buery had something […]

When it becomes successful in their own backyards, even die-hard liberals support school choice. “I support [means-tested, not universal] vouchers, I support homeschooling, I support charter schools, I support changes in the traditional system, [and] I support virtual schools,” Dr. Howard Fuller, author of No Struggle, No Progress and former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, said […]

Those who assembled on March 12 at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Leesburg, Virginia, to celebrate the life of conservative thinker and writer M. Stanton Evans heard several references to his monumental 1994 work, The Theme is Freedom. This book is worth remembering and re-reading as we are being treated repeatedly to the […]

Talk about an attempt to suppress free speech and Second Amendment rights. The faculty council chair at the University of Texas-Austin told faculty to not support the on-campus carry efforts in the university system: “Professor Bill Beckner, Chair of the Faculty Council of the University of Texas at Austin, emailed all university faculty members warning […]

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, writer Don Troop highlighted the current controversy at the University of Michigan concerning how much the university pays its administrators. At Ann Arbor in 2005, they paid less than $13 million on “additional pay” (i.e. bonuses) to administrators for meeting performance goals or taking on additional duties not in […]

We have long held that trustees don’t do nearly enough to act as a reality check on the universities they are entrusted with. Of course, when one comes along, the universities don’t like it one bit. “The University of Texas system has spent the past two years airing plenty of dirty laundry, and that is […]

The Libyan civil war did more harm to the country, its people, economy and its neighbors in North Africa when NATO intervened at the behest of U.S. President Barack Obama, concluded a University of Texas-Austin professor Alan Kuperman.

On traditional versus “alternative” marriage, several decades of proselytizing, aided and abetted by the mass media and popular culture, have borne fruit.

The National Association of Scholars found the history courses in two flagship universities in Texas—the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and Texas A&M University at College Station (A&M)— to be racially biased, but not in the manner in which the Left understands the term.