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WHAT: "Housing + Transit: Connecting Affordable Homes to Transit-Oriented Development in the Austin Region" will teach attendees about the on-the-ground strategies that work to link housing and public transit, ensuring that people of all income levels have equal access to both affordable housing and public transit.

A decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many questions are still left unanswered. Are we safer than we were a decade ago?

Are we "winning" the so-called "war on terror?" Has the cost of security been worth the incursions into our privacy and even our civil liberties?

Was Sept. 11 a massive intelligence failure, and if so, have the intelligence reforms undertaken since made things better?

Ten years after Sept. 11 and 20 years after the end of the Cold War, how do we understand and find our way in the current era of globalization?

The University of Texas at Austin and its Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs will collaborate with the offices of the Texas speaker of the house and lieutenant governor to host a Pre-Session Legislative Conference, an orientation for new members of the state legislature.

As part of the four-day orientation, the LBJ School of…   » Continue Reading

James B. Steinberg, deputy secretary of state in the U.S. Department of State, will deliver the convocation address on Saturday, May 22, to the graduating class of the Lyndon B.

Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School Dean Robert Hutchings announced today.

The convocation, to be held in the [...]

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has begun its search for a new dean following the departure of James B.

Steinberg, dean of the LBJ School since 2006, who was named U.S. deputy secretary of state earlier this year. Admiral Bobby R.

Inman, USN (Ret.), the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, [...]

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin saw a 35 percent jump in applications for fall 2009 entry into its master's degree programs compared with fall 2008, the school announced today.

For fall 2009, only 130 slots are available for new students. For fall 2009, the LBJ School [...]

Admiral Bobby R. Inman has been appointed interim dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, Provost Steven W.

Leslie has announced. Inman succeeds James B. Steinberg, dean of the LBJ School since 2006, who has been named U.S. deputy secretary of state.

Inman also became interim [...]

The following is the news release from the Office of the President-Elect, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden announce key members of national security team James Steinberg, dean of the university's Lyndon B.

Johnson School of Public Affairs, will serve as deputy secretary of state. CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect [...]

The following is the news release from the Office of the President-Elect, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. President-elect Obama nominates Senator Daschle as Secretary of HHS CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama officially nominated former Senator Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services and named him the Director of a new White House Office on Health Care [...]