UT Chancellor Bill McRaven feeling better after brief hospitalization
University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven says he’s feeling better by the day following a brief hospitalization in Dallas. “I’m far from 100 percent, but every day I’m feeling better,”...
View ArticleUniversity of California regents vote to bid for Los Alamos contract
The University of California system, as expected, wants to keep operating Los Alamos National Laboratory. The system’s Board of Regents voted Thursday to authorize a bid for the management and...
View ArticleA&M shifts payroll, other systems to cloud ahead of UT
Shifting the computer systems that track payroll, human resources and finances from a mainframe to a cloud-based operation is taking longer and costing more than originally projected at the University...
View ArticleUT’s Fenves, French ambassador to sign off on collaboration endowment
France — Paris in particular — is one of the favorite travel destinations of Gregory L. Fenves, president of the University of Texas. He is especially fond of the museums. Fenves is also passionate...
View ArticleMcRaven voices support for ruling that keeps DACA in place
Dipping his toe — and maybe his foot and a fair bit of his ankle — into a legal matter with heavy political overtones, University of Texas System Chancellor said Tuesday that he was “pleased” to see...
View ArticlePublic invited to submit nominations for chancellor to succeed UT System’s...
Want to weigh in on the search for a successor to University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven? Consider yourself invited. The search committee led by Sara Martinez Tucker, chairwoman of the...
View ArticleUT grad named president of Carnegie Mellon
Farnam Jahanian, who earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Texas, has been named president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Jahanian had been...
View ArticleUT: No ‘tuition promise’ on aid for family incomes under $80K
When it comes to the University of Texas System’s tally of financial aid recipients at UT-Austin and the system’s seven other academic campuses, it turns out there are students and then there are...
View ArticleIt’s taken more than a year, but UT System moving to sell 300 acres in Houston
More than a year after University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven scuttled a plan to develop a campus of sorts on about 300 acres acquired in Houston, the system is moving to put the property...
View ArticleUT regents’ agenda for Saturday meeting comes in two different versions
The University of Texas System Board of Regents routinely posts its full agenda for upcoming meetings on the system’s website — except when it doesn’t. A special called meeting for Saturday is a case...
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