Lucinda Breeding-Gonzales | Denton Record-Chronicle

University of North Texas officials reported Tuesday morning that 28 international students who had their student visas revoked by the Trump administration now have their credentials reinstated.

For University of North Texas alumnus Aakash Sridhar, the journey to jazz — and his debut album, Revived Emotions — started with the tabla and few chances to improvise.

Twenty-seven University of North Texas students have reportedly had their visas revoked. The North Texas Daily reported that Faculty Senate Vice Chair William Joyner read from an email from UNT administrators at the Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday saying that the Department of Homeland Security revoked the student visas of 16 international students.

By the time history professor Nancy Stockdale began her lecture Thursday, the Jade Ballroom at the University of North Texas Union was almost at capacity, with some attendees standing. One month earlier, her presentation had been challenged by five Republican state representatives who serve Denton County, but UNT officials didn’t cancel the event.

The University of North Texas System is one of the latest institutions in the state to pause all drag performances on its campuses.

A group of faculty and graduate students at the University of North Texas have picked up awards for the project, but the real reward, said Mariela Nuñez-Janes, is seeing students succeed. The UNT professor of applied anthropology is a co-founder and project lead for Juntxs.

The Argyle school board voted unanimously Monday to give teachers a one-time $1,000 payment, as well as a $500 one-time payment for paraprofessionals and auxiliary employees.

The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights named the University of North Texas among the universities it is investigating for “race-exclusionary practices” in their graduate programs.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the investigations are an effort to protect students from discrimination.

State Rep. Mitch Little also asks UNT to cancel an upcoming presentation by a professor who studies Palestinian history.

PTA groups are nonpartisan, but when thousands rallied for public education funding in Austin on Monday, vouchers drew anger from parents.

For theater instructor Aaron Wood, Other Desert Cities was just the right play to choose when North Central Texas College needed to revise its schedule.