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President Powers: Students Should Stop Buying More College Than They Need
In his State of the Union address last month President Obama put universities on notice that if they couldn’t hold tuition down, the federal government would withhold support. I share the president’s...
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UT Seeks Cost-Cutting Advice From Corporate Superstars
The vice president of Boeing International. The chief operating officer of Accenture. A senior vice president at Dell. What do these particular executives share in common? A commitment to apply their...
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Student Leaders: ‘We Refuse To Be Complacent’ About UT
For the past two years, there has been an unfortunate ritual at the end of the spring semester at The University of Texas at Austin. While students are cramming for finals and packing up to leave town...
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UT President Bill Powers has made many arguments in support of a new UT-Austin medical school—from job growth to research opportunities. Now, in this new video on his Tower Talk blog, Powers makes a...
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Powers All Business on State of the University at 129
Describing The University of Texas’ strengths and challenges in its 129th year, President Bill Powers got straight down to business. Addressing a 500-seat auditorium crowded with administrators,...
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UT-Austin at the Front of New Online Learning Partnership
The University of Texas at Austin will be leading the UT System in a global initiative to provide massive open online education courses. The UT System Board Of Regents voted Monday to approve a...
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A (Shorter) Statement of Honor For UT
At the suggestion of President Powers, the UT Senate of College Councils has rewritten the way academic integrity is taught. As cheating scandals sweep across national headlines and universities...
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President Powers to Lead Group of Top Research Universities
UT-Austin President Bill Powers will chair the American Association of Universities, the organization of the nation’s elite research universities. America’s best universities understand: what starts...
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The 83rd Texas Legislature
The past 10 years have seen higher education catapult to the top of the legislative agenda. This year, everything’s on the table. The Texas Legislature is back in Austin for its 83rd session. Among the...
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UT Establishes Clements Center on History, Strategy, and Statecraft
H.W. Brands, Jeremi Suri, Francis Gavin—some of UT’s powerhouse historians will soon have a new home on the Forty Acres. UT has announced the creation of the William P. Clements Jr. Center on History,...
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#IMATXEX: New Grads are Born at 131st Spring Commencement
Four (or more) years ago, UT’s Class of 2014 gathered at the base of the Tower to learn the history and traditions of the University of Texas at Austin, their new home-away-from-home, at the annual...
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‘The Dancer Makes the Dance’: Bill Powers at His Final State of the...
“You might say I fell in love,” UT president Bill Powers said of the August day in 1977 when he arrived on campus to teach at the law school. So began Powers’ ninth and final State of the University...
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