Higher Education

The growth is fueling higher rents and home prices in the North Texas city that was once seen as a more affordable option to Dallas and other major cities.

The Mercury faced prior review and the firing of their editor-in-chief. Here’s how they pushed back.

Hartzell said in an email Tuesday that he accepted an offer to serve as SMU’s next president beginning on June 1, replacing longtime President Gerald Turner. Hartzell has been president of UT Austin since 2020.

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.

In his new role, Rosser will be responsible for helping Texas meet its goal to increase the number of Texans ages 25 to 34 with a postsecondary credential to 60% by 2030.

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.

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.

Nearly half a dozen institutions of higher education announced plans this week to make tuition free for undergraduates whose families make below a certain income threshold, starting in fall 2025.

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

Professors and instructors say the university is preemptively censoring itself after administrators removed references to race and equity in dozens of College of Education course titles and descriptions.

The governor’s directive extends a tuition freeze for Texas’ public universities that was approved in the last legislative session.

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.