Along with investment returns, the PUF is up nearly 9 percent over fiscal 2012 and is 53 percent higher than it was at the end of fiscal 2009, according to UT system officials.
Critics are concerned that a new state plan to exclude some high school curriculum tracks from class rankings will hinder students from accessing higher education through the state’s top 10 percent law.
The federal deferred action program, enacted in 2012, has allowed 72,400 undocumented immigrants,many of them students, in Texas to gain temporary legal status.
A roundup of news, columns and features about the state, from media around the world.
Jordan Spieth, a member of the Longhorns’ 2012 national championship golf team, has achieved remarkably quick professional success as a 20-year-old.
Local Catholic officials say the pope’s comments on homosexuality aren’t new, but students are taking fresh encouragement from them nonetheless.
Organics By Gosh got a big break last year when it was selected for Austin’s pilot composting program, which will expand in February.
The South Texas Project nuclear plant in Matagorda County got a reprieve from historically low water levels with last month’s rains.
The University of Texas’ hockey team is far from a powerhouse like many of the school’s other athletic programs, but it’s part of a growing hockey scene in Texas.
The state and school districts have been toughening their policies on educator sexual misconduct, with reporting rates going up in Texas and across the nation.
A Bostonian who moved to Austin in 2011 is producing “Locapour,” an online show that focuses on Central Texas beers.
In a state plagued by drought, UT-Austin’s $2.1 million water monitoring system is on the cutting-edge of the new cry for conservation.
The new site, OurTown4Teens, is funded with federal funds that require abstinence-only public education.
The city of Austin has decided to double the size of its composting experiment and is considering taking curbside composting citywide in 2016.
Texas public schools have geared up and locked down in a variety of ways, including allowing some faculty to carry concealed guns and encircling some schools with security fences.
The sculptor of a proposed bronze monument to homelessness is still seeking approval and funding to place the statue on Auditorium Shores.
The early fears about feral hogs around Texas’ State Highway 130 have largely subsided, but concerns about lack of traffic for the toll highway remain.
