Shomial Ahmad | Fort Worth Report

In a March 7 letter Hermes shared with the Report, Miriam Byrd, the chair of UTA’s Department of Philosophy and Humanities, informed Hermes of his leave and cited “numerous complaints” about his teaching as the reasoning behind the move.

Texas Wesleyan and UT Arlington are among the universities offering guidance on the Trump administration’s rapidly evolving immigration orders.

Mentions of the commitment on that prominent page have now disappeared. A Dec. 2 screenshot of the website, courtesy of the internet archive site Wayback Machine, shows a statement saying that TCU is committed to “building a university for all,” and noted that’s why DEI is a part of the core curriculum and a theme in TCU’s strategic plan.

The University of North Texas System and Trent-Adams signed a “Mutual Termination and Release Agreement,” executed on Jan. 31, her last day at the Fort Worth institution. The agreement was first reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

AT&T Stadium will host a College Football Playoff semifinal between the Texas Longhorns and the Ohio State Buckeyes, drawing widespread national attention — and visitors — to the city of 400,000.

University of Texas at Arlington leaders have been pushing forward with plans for their new college campus, which ultimately will serve 12,000 students at the western edge of Fort Worth near Aledo.

Change is in the air at TCU, which announced this week that Boschini will be stepping down from his role on June 1. Current TCU President Daniel Pullin will assume the role of chancellor. TCU does not plan to hire a new president.

As TCU expands its presence both in size and prominence, Victor Boschini, the chancellor of the university for more than two decades, will step away from his role as head of the university. Boschini, who was previously president of Illinois State University before coming to TCU in 2003, will become chancellor emeritus.

In the afternoon sun Nov. 11, a final beam — in Aggie maroon embellished with white paint pen signatures — was lifted more than 250 feet up in the air to the top of the first building being constructed for the new Texas A&M Fort Worth campus in downtown.

Enrollment is up for most colleges and universities in the Tarrant County area in comparison to 2023. But at the largest institutions — Tarrant County College and University of Texas at Arlington — undergraduate enrollment in fall 2024 has not made a complete rebound from pre-COVID levels in fall 2019.

UTA is one of the largest campus early voting locations in Tarrant County, with over 9,700 people casting their early vote for the presidential election there in 2020. County Republican and Democratic leaders alike have said every vote counts in terms of what color the battleground county will turn in the presidential election and down-ballot races. President Joe Biden narrowly won Tarrant in 2020, while Republicans continue to hold all countywide offices.

A couple months into the Israel-Hamas war, a Fort Worth rabbi reached out to an imam to express his grief on what was happening in Israel and Gaza.