colleges and universities

Saturday, Nov. 1, 9:45 a.m., Blanton Museum: Smith Building (BMA). Join us for this special symposium accompanying the exhibition Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York, and take the opportunity to hear experts in many fields from this fascinating era.

The goal of this interdisciplinary symposium is to offer new perspectives on the 1960s for students and faculty as well as for the Blanton Museum and larger Austin communities.

Free to UT faculty and students and Blanton members.

Event: Up-and-coming scholars from colleges and universities across the country will convene on The University of Texas at Austin campus to present their research on why some expressions of emotion are valued in the public sphere and why others are not—and the impact this has on social movements and politics.

The "New Agendas: Political Emotions" conference [...]

More than half of 26,000 students surveyed across 70 colleges and universities reported having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives, according to a University of Texas at Austin study.

Fifteen percent of students surveyed reported they have seriously considered suicide and more than five percent reported at least one [...]

Since 2005, banking giant BB&T has given several million dollars to different colleges and universities in an effort to promote the study of Ayn Rand's books and economic philosophy.

But should a corporation have a role in establishing curricula?

» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

The UT System responded Friday to a questionnaire from the federal government regarding the uses of its endowment.

In January, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter out to 136 U.S. colleges and universities with endowments of $500 million or more.

Event: More than 400 undergraduate students from 90 U.S. colleges and universities will converge on The University of Texas at Austin campus to compete in the 2008 American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET), which includes the collegiate national speech championships.

All presentations are open to The University of Texas at Austin community. The event [...]

The University Health Services has issued an online health survey to 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law school students throughout the campus to determine the most pressing health needs of UT students.

The University is one of more than 300 colleges and universities in the U.

Tenured and tenure-track faculty at the nation's colleges and universities are becoming increasingly rare, according to federal statistics interpreted by the American Association of University Professors.

WASHINGTON--So far, a U.S. House of Representatives panel hasn't done anything to alter a bill that would deprive colleges and universities of financial aid for their students unless they plan to provide "alternatives" and deterrents to illicit peer-to-peer downloading.

Debate on amendments to a massive Democratic-sponsored higher education spending bill (PDF) ...

WASHINGTON--A U.S. House of Representatives committee plans to vote Wednesday afternoon on a Hollywood-backed higher education bill that would deprive colleges and universities of their financial aid funding if they don't agree to provide deterrents and "alternatives" to peer-to-peer piracy.