The mother of a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student who died after falling from a high-rise apartment near the University of Texas at Austin is pleading for answers — and students living nearby say the circumstances feel deeply unsettling.

Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.

Yass, a school voucher supporter and an influential figure in Texas politics, said the only condition for the gift was for the school not to receive government funding.

Texas Politics Project’s Joshua Blank joins the TribCast to walk through the 17 constitutional amendments on the ballot this November

The funding deal would reportedly ask the university to adopt a stricter definition of gender and a tuition freeze, among other conditions.

A judge said the university can’t be trusted to enforce a state law that bans overnight “expressive activity,” among other restrictions, in a constitutional way.

Russell Taylor Johns was arrested Wednesday after allegedly exposing his genitals to two female UT students last April, according to an affidavit.

The University of Texas at San Antonio softball team has hired former University of Texas at Austin pitcher Mac Morgan as its new pitching coach, the campus announced Wednesday.

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The quick end to a Texas law that granted in-state public university tuition prices to students who lack legal resident status stunned immigrant advocates and state Democrats, who call it a cruel punishment for hardworking students that will ultimately hurt the state’s economy.

University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

After losing in last week’s conference tournament, the University of Texas at San Antonio baseball team learned its season will live to fight another day.

Conservative lawmakers say DEI efforts are discriminatory and push liberal ideologies on children. Critics point to research showing a diverse teacher body helps students succeed academically.

One proposal would allow the attorney general to sue cities and freeze sales tax revenues for up to 90 days.

The people affected include a University of Houston professor from Korea who was teaching upper level math under a type of student visa that allows graduates to work in their field of study.

Jim Davis told professors he’ll share their concerns with lawmakers about proposals that would increase oversight on curricula and hiring. Elsewhere on campus, former UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell criticized the bills.

This weekend, a group of Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFROTC) students from several universities will run more than 60 miles between San Antonio and Austin.

This week on Texas Eats, David Elder travels all across the state for some iconic Texas barbecue.

If you hear laughter from the University of Texas at Austin’s archive center, here’s why.

El Departamento de Bomberos de San Antonio está investigando un incendio que provocó la pérdida total de una casa y dañó un edificio con cuatro negocios en el lado este de la ciudad.

“Selena y Los Dinos” se proyectará en enero como parte de la Competencia de Documentales de EE. UU., 30 años después de que Yolanda Saldivar matara a la icónica cantante de música tejana.

At least a third of respondents at UT-Austin, UT-Dallas and Texas A&M said they’re not sure administrators at their universities protect free speech on campus.

A local restaurant is opening a new location in the heart of downtown San Antonio early next year.

The Board of Regents is lifting the income threshold to expand eligibility across all nine of its UT System campuses.

The current threshold is 6%. The change comes after the university received a record-breaking 73,000 undergraduate applications for this fall.

Ammer Qaddumi alleges UT-Austin violated his First Amendment rights. He is also challenging his suspension from the university.

The new policy says universities should remain neutral on “issues of the day” while allowing students, faculty and staff to express their ideas.

Some students were relieved they were offered a type of academic probation that would allow them to remain in classes.

The arrests were the result of the second police crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations at UT-Austin. The first protest, on April 24, resulted in 57 arrests, which were also dismissed.

Keller, commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 2019, takes office on Aug. 1.

Some Jewish students see the protests as inherently antisemitic. Others say Jewish history and values make them empathize with Palestinians.

Tuesday’s Texas Senate hearing comes as lawmakers are expected to propose new laws next year to enforce the DEI ban and prevent antisemitism.

The lecturer’s lawyer disputes the charges, and the university’s decision to fire him has raised concerns from faculty over free speech protections.

Classes 1A and 6A took the stage at Mike A. Meyers Stadium for the final day of the UIL State Track & Field State Meet in Austin.

An American Civil Liberties Union of Texas attorney and a UT-Austin professor discussed how free speech has been protected and challenged in campus protests, and what we should all learn from the last few weeks.

Hartzell’s protest response has also resulted in condemnations from students and faculty.

The arrests mark the second time in less than a week that police have broken up a pro-Palestinian demonstration. This time protesters tried to set up an encampment on campus.

University officials banned all students arrested from campus, except for “academic reasons.”

President Jay Hartzell defended the response but faculty criticized the presence of armed state troopers. Fifty-seven people were arrested.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said a TV photographer arrested during a pro-Palestine protest Wednesday at UT Austin will have his case under further investigation by its Criminal Investigations Division.

As administrators scramble to comply with new limits on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, students and faculty worry more tumult is coming.

Texas' ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education has resulted in more than 100 job cuts at University of Texas campuses across the state.

The firings come after state leaders criticized universities for not doing enough to enforce the ban. Students say UT-Austin has already overcorrected.

The decision comes after the university switched to test-optional admissions during the pandemic.

The new state law prohibits public universities from having diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Students say schools are overcorrecting.

A former exchange student at the University of Texas at Austin is suing a fraternity chapter and seeks more than $1 million in damages.

Administrators are weighing possible disciplinary action against four students who criticized the university’s response to the Middle East conflict.

The sum is part of a larger philanthropic campaign to raise $6 billion for the flagship university in Austin.

If approved, the new fund would provide tens of millions of dollars to the University of Houston, Texas Tech, Texas State University and University of North Texas.

Payments resumed this month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan is unconstitutional. For many, the pause meant the difference between saving and making ends meet.

Fellows play key roles in the most important work of the Tribune, helping with The Texas Tribune Festival and covering the biennial legislative sessions, education and the environment, among other important topics.

The attorney general’s fellow Republicans were about evenly split in their approval and disapproval, the University of Texas poll determined.

Here’s what you need to know ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s expected ruling on two cases challenging the policy commonly known as affirmative action in college admissions.

Noah Bliss and Mason Mock are Comal ISD's newest National Merit Scholars.

State lawmakers passed legislation that would ensure the UT flagship can continue to cap the number of students it automatically admits because of their academic achievement at 75%, giving the university room to accept other students using different criteria.

The Buc-ee’s beaver may rule Texas interstates, but the state has been “beaver country” for millions of years, researchers by the University of Texas at Austin recently proved.

Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, has filed legislation that would establish The Civitas School of Civic and International Leadership as a formal college at the University of Texas at Austin.

On this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with higher education reporter Kate McGee about Texas leaders’ push to limit the role of diversity in hiring on college campuses.

The businessman gave huge donations to the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with bringing the San Antonio Spurs basketball team to the Alamo City.

A University of Texas at Austin student was arrested for taking pictures of others under a shower stall at a dorm hall, campus police say.

The nonbinding referendum is meant to gauge student opinion on the divisive alma mater but would not result in any changes to the song. Student leaders called for it in response to a 2021 university report on the song’s history that found it was “not overtly racist.”

Students and faculty will not be able to access the popular social media app while connected to university internet servers. It’s the latest step to limit access to the service after Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies to ban the app on government-issued devices citing cybersecurity risks.

Beard was hired by UT in 2021. The university paid $4 million to buy out his contract at Texas Tech University. He was one of UT’s highest-paid employees.

The research teams are expected to focus on traumatic brain injury, stem cell research, drug development and anti-shock therapies.

The Board of Regents adopted the Chicago Statement, a free speech policy created by the University of Chicago in 2014. More than 90 institutions have adopted the statement.

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years.

UT-Austin professor Richard Lowery is represented by America First Legal — a group created by Stephen Miller, a policy adviser for former President Donald Trump, and Jonathan Mitchell, a former solicitor general for Texas and the legal architect of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

This fall students at the University of Texas at Austin will have the opportunity to take a literary course studying Taylor Swift’s written lyrics.

While the risk of exposure to monkeypox remains low, health experts say college students living in close proximity to each other could spur outbreaks. They encourage schools to share their plans and relevant information about the virus.

It’s unclear whether Texas’ tangled web of abortion laws would make it a crime to pay for a Texan to leave the state to get an abortion, but the threat has compelled the funds to cease services.

The University of Texas at Austin selected Justin Dyer to run The Civitas Institute, formerly referred to as the Liberty Institute. The center raised concerns among faculty after The Texas Tribune reported UT-Austin worked with conservative donors and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to bring the institute to the flagship UT campus.

Emails obtained via an open records request show two professors who helped develop the new center believe UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell backed off a plan to bring “intellectual diversity” to campus.

The two-year pilot program comes after at least 15 years of students asking for the change. It will allow UT-Austin students to live together in certain residence halls with students of any gender or sexual identity.

A jury awarded Evdokia Nikolova damages for past and future pain and suffering after finding UT-Austin illegally discriminated against her when the school denied her tenure.

One of Texas’ most creepy crawlies is the redheaded centipede.

About $1 billion will go to support students, as the cost of living in Austin skyrockets.

First Liberty Institute, a Plano-based religious freedom legal group, has a registered trademark for the name and said it has alerted UT-Austin that it objects to them using it.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to revoke tenure for professors teaching lessons about race that he disagrees with. It’s a new chapter of an old fight between academics and populist politicians.

Patrick’s suggestion to end tenure at public universities received swift criticism from faculty and higher education experts who said it would negatively impact the reputation of Texas’ colleges and universities.

Patrick’s declarations come days after the UT-Austin Faculty Council approved a measure reaffirming instructors’ right to teach about racial justice and critical race theory in the classroom.

She moves from the Tribune’s editorial team to our audience team, where she will take charge of our flagship email newsletter, The Brief.

As Texas universities and colleges begin a fifth semester during the COVID-19 pandemic, many students say they are struggling with uncertainty and an indifference toward school and the future.

More than a dozen amazing students from Texas and around the country will work with us this semester in various areas of our newsroom.

The university's mission is to create a “fiercely independent” school that offers an alternative to what founders see as a rise in “illiberalism” on college campuses.

A University of Texas at Austin student who planned to apply to an Obama-era initiative for immigrants who came to America as children is stuck in limbo after a Texas judge halted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The complaint signals a continued desire among some UT-Austin students and alumni to push administrators to discontinue using the song as the university’s alma mater, despite the university’s insistence that it will remain.

As companies begin implementing their own plan for the pandemic, a mandatory vaccination wouldn’t be something new.

Texas public universities forbidden from mandating vaccines are trying to entice students and faculty to get the shot. Those moves come as more people ages 18 to 29 years old in Texas are being hospitalized with the virus.

More than a dozen amazing students will work with us this semester from Texas and across the globe in various areas of our newsroom.

The news comes after the SEC voted to invite UT and the University of Oklahoma to join its 14-member league during a meeting with the league members’ presidents and chancellors Thursday afternoon.

The judge found that the group behind the suit had essentially brought the same claims in a previous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s policy.

The university is seeking to leave the Big 12 along with the University of Oklahoma, a move that would have wide-ranging impact on Texas college athletics.

Dozens of students at the University of Texas at Austin who give campus tours to prospective Longhorns are refusing to work this week over a dispute about a plaque with “The Eyes of Texas” lyrics hanging in the Admissions Welcome Center.

Last month, the Tribune reported that dozens of UT-Austin donors threatened to pull funds if the university got rid of the song, which has been the subject of student protests. A recent report commissioned by President Jay Hartzell determined the song was not “overtly racist,” though it was written in a racist setting. McCoy and Brigham were part of a large group email of Longhorns donors and fans who discussed the controversy among themselves on June 29. The Tribune attempted to contact McCoy through UT-Austin, a family member and the Arizona Cardinals but he could not be reached for comment. The latest emails from UT-Austin also included more examples of direct threats from donors over the song.

“It’s humiliating to be required to sit for the song or be in the presence,” said Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP. Students have also called on the school to stop playing the song from the bell tower. In his report, Alberto Martinez provided documentation linking the phrase “The Eyes of Texas” to a statement made in reference to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. This complicates its understanding and explains how different people experienced the song in vastly different ways.”A UT-Austin spokesperson said the university stands behind its report. AdOn Monday, a UT-Austin band member said said the implications of protesting the song were unclear for students.

Greg Abbott speaks at a press conference in Austin on Feb 13, 2021. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune(Audio unavailable. On this week's episode, Matthew speaks with Ross, Cassi and Kate about the Texas Legislature's move to limit Gov. Greg Abbott's power during a pandemic. They also discuss the University of Texas at Austin's report on "The Eyes of Texas." Disclosure: University of Texas at Austin has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.

The University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday released the findings of a report — months in the making — exploring the history of its alma mater song, "The Eyes of Texas." Over the summer, students protested and petitioned the university to rid the campus of the song, which has ties to minstrel shows. Officials said the song would stay, but announced a 24-member committee that would look into the song's history. AdLast week, The Texas Tribune reported that hundreds of alumni and donors wrote UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell over the summer and fall demanding he keep the song. Disclosure: University of Texas at Austin has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.

Emmanuel Acho, who played linebacker for the University of Texas at Austin and is a current co-host on Fox Sports 1, will host “The Bachelor After the Final Rose” following this season’s final rose ceremony. The host-to-be made the announcement official on social media on Saturday. IT’S OFFICIAL: I’ve accepted the Rose & am honored to be hosting the @bachelorabc After the Final Rose this year. 🌹 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/eWBXT6Kv6J — Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) February 27, 2021“I’ve accepted the rose and am honored to be hosting The Bachelor After the Final Rose this year. It’s been a pivotal season and this episode will hopefully be one of the most storied shows in TV history,” Acho said on social media.