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WATCH: Colbert Takes Down 3D Gun Toting Texan

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 05.17.2013 | Comedy

As the gun debate rages on, one development has sparked great interest: The rise of guns created by 3D printers. With this invention, anyone with the ...

PHOTO: Brilliant Way To Pass Time At Graduation

Posted 05.14.2013 | College

No matter how impressive smartphones get, sometimes there's no beating a good ol' fashioned Gameboy. To be more specific, a pink Gameboy Color. A U...

University Of Texas Fined For Violating Clery Act

NBC - Dallas-Fort Worth | Posted 05.09.2013 | College

The U.S. Department of Education recently fined the University of Texas at Arlington for inaccurately reporting crimes on campus. The university wa...

Professor Wades Further Into Controversial Gay Marriage Debate

Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

By Sofia Resnick From researcher to advocate The University of Texas professor behind the controversial study that became instant fodder for...

Supreme Court To Hear Affirmative Action Case

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's decision to hear a new case from Michigan on the politically charged issue of affirmative action offers an intr...

Lesbian Coach Who Had Relationship With Student Claims Discrimination

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 03.21.2013 | Gay Voices

A women's track coach who was put on leave at the University of Texas in 2012 after having a relationship with a female athlete has filed a complaint ...

Let's Get One Million Kids Cooking

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 05.08.2013 | Impact
Linda Novick O'Keefe

Our vision is to be a change agent, industry and thought leader in promoting wellness in the fight against childhood obesity. We have an incredible call list of friends, activators, influencers and doers across the globe ready to join us in making this vision become a reality.

WATCH: Student Makes Amazing Black History Discovery

Posted 02.19.2013 | Black Voices

Firsthand accounts of American slavery are certainly a limited treasure. Any opportunity to read a description of what being subjected to the institut...

No Free Pass For Seniors When It Comes To This

The Huffington Post | Shelley Emling | Posted 02.06.2013 | Fifty

Now that you're getting older, you no longer have to worry about cutting back on saturated fat or making sure you consume five to nine servings of veg...

A Clash Over The Future Of Public Higher Ed

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 02.03.2013 | College

AUSTIN, Texas -- If colleges were automobiles, the University of Texas at Austin would be a Cadillac: a famous brand, a powerful engine of research an...

The Fight to Allow Concealed Carry On College Campuses

Posted 01.22.2013 | College

Lawmakers in Texas and Arkansas on Thursday filed legislation to allow citizens on public college and university campuses to carry concealed weapons, ...

Investigation Discredits University Fracking Study

AP | Posted 02.11.2013 | Green

HOUSTON (AP) — An independent review of a University of Texas study into hydraulic fracturing found the research did not meet standards for scientif...

WATCH: Hilariously Odd Video Of Staring UT Student

Posted 02.05.2013 | College

Sometimes a video defies categorization. Sure, we could say that the following video clip features a University of Texas at Austin student walking ar...

Texas Coaching Legend Dies

AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 01.07.2013 | Sports

AUSTIN, Texas — A son of Depression-era Oklahoma, Darrell Royal came to Texas to take over a sleeping giant of a football program. Over 20 years...

Affirmative Action Restricted At U.T.-Austin

The Huffington Post | Roque Planas | Posted 11.02.2012 | Latino Voices

It just got a little harder for Latinos to get into the University of Texas at Austin. The Houston Chronicle reported this week that U.T.-Austin w...

The Many Faces of Affirmative Action

John A. Powell | Posted 12.17.2012 | College
John A. Powell

The undergraduate admissions policy, which some call "the Texas affirmative action plan," is designed to promote diversity in the student body. However, it is not the only "affirmative action plan" being used by UT.

Don't Be Fooled, the Attack is on Diversity and Inclusion

Sharon Davies | Posted 12.16.2012 | Black Voices
Sharon Davies

Far from squandering state and federal resources, expanding educational opportunity and producing the multiculturally competent citizens and leaders that our nation and world will need is an investment with limitless payoff.

Answer in the Affirmative

The Cavalier Daily | Posted 12.12.2012 | College
The Cavalier Daily

By upholding precedent, the Supreme Court will allow questions of race to be addressed in a pragmatic, constitutional manner rather than a political one.

Education and Incarceration: Beyond 'Affirmative Action'

Inimai Chettiar | Posted 12.12.2012 | College
Inimai Chettiar

The Court's decision could result in policies that provide even fewer educational and economic opportunities to young black men and, in turn, result in the incarceration of more of this large swath of our community.

Doing Well As A Sophomore? Here's A Tuition Break

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 10.11.2012 | College

Indiana University students who are doing well as sophomores won't have to worry about their tuition rising. IU President Michael McRobbie announce...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Looked Better For Affirmative Action Foes

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Chief Justice John Roberts may have switched his vote to join the Supreme Court's liberals in last term's blockbuster health care case, ...

Supreme Court Takes Up Affirmative Action In Fisher vs. UT-Austin

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 12.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could...

Fisher v. The University of Texas: What to Expect in Oral Argument

Stephen Menendian | Posted 12.09.2012 | Politics
Stephen Menendian

Although few legal minds devote journal space to analyzing oral argument, the Court is so closely divided on major cases that a perceptive listener can usually divine clues as to where the individual Justices may be leaning.

UT Needs Holistic Review

Samantha Robles | Posted 12.09.2012 | College
Samantha Robles

Holistic review is important to UT because it allows for a person to be recognized by everything that makes them whole and unique.

The View of Affirmative Action From the Other Side of the Americas

Tanya K. Hernandez | Posted 12.09.2012 | College
Tanya K. Hernandez

Just as the United States Supreme Court reconsiders the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action programs in higher education, Latin American countries such as Brazil are actively adopting nationwide affirmative action policies.