Austin ISD Teachers, Staff Poised For Pay Increases

Recent passage of HB3 overhauling public education finance system enables district to allot $48M for pay hikes.

Austin Community College Lauded For Serving Latino Students

ACC was one of just 8 schools securing prestigious Seal of Excelencia during ceremony along with schools in El Paso and McAllen.

Texas Schools Get Letter Grades From A+ To F

'Children at Risk' nonprofit compiles rankings with accompanying letter grades to schools statewide in providing performance snapshots.

Nearly 2 Dozen Travis County Schools Get 'F' For Performance

Children at Risk releases annual rankings showing 12 elementary, 10 middle and one high school failed to meet performance requirements.

Austin Community College Students Can Learn About Financial Aid

Those already enrolled and others planning to do so can learn how to access from $70M in funds to help with books, classes, expenses.

Austin Community College To Host Emergency Preparedness Week

Students, faculty, and staff will practice the best actions to take when an emergency occurs during drills set for June 10-14.

Student Helps Homeless Man Return To UT-Austin After 44 Years

David Carter, 67, dropped out of school as he descended into mental illness and addiction until a student journalist learned his story.

Austin Ed Fund Awards $120K-Plus In Teacher Grants

Funding meant to encourage, facilitate, recognize and reward innovative and creative instructional approaches to classroom instruction.

Rose Shape Inspires Engineering Breakthrough At UT-Austin

Drawing inspiration from nature, university engineers create low-cost, flower-shaped structure aimed at mitigating scarcity of clean water.

Austin Community College Offers Courses For Working Nurses

Curriculum allows working nurses to complete the additional coursework for a BSN at a lower cost, with up to 60 slots available.

Austin Community College Fall Registration Now Open

New associate degrees and expanded flexible options launched for classes starting on Monday, Aug. 26.

UT-Austin Commits $20M For U.S. Army Futures Command Pact

Earmarked funds are in addition to $30 million allotment to strengthen faculty and research capabilities in areas of mutual interest.

Austin Billionaire Robert F. Smith Pays Off College Student Loans

Robert Smith's $40M gift to pay Morehouse College Class of '19 student debt partly informed by his experiences as a black man in Texas.

Austin Student Graduates From Angelo State University

Ben Decherd of Austin was among the more than 800 undergraduate and graduate students whose degrees were conferred on May 11.

Watch Live: Austin Community College Graduates Record Number

The more than 2,100 set to walk across the stage to retrieve their diplomas is part of a 5-year growth pattern over the last five years.

Dell To Deliver Keynote Address At UT-Austin Graduation

Dell Technologies CEO and founder Michael S. Dell will deliver a keynote address for the 136th spring commencement on May 25.

Austin Gathering To Focus On Texas School Financing

Austin Community College's Center for Public Policy and Political Studies luncheon to focus on key issue at May 15 event.

Storm Water Banking Could Help Texas Manage Floods, Droughts

With memories of recent rains and Hurricane Harvey still fresh, UT-Austin researchers explore ways of storing water overflow underground.

UT-Austin Lauded For Commitment To 1st Generation Students

The Center for First-generation Student Success recognizes university that counts more than 20 percent of undergrads as 1st generation.

Obscenity Gets Into Texas 5th Graders' Tests

An untold number of fifth-graders across Texas were exposed to the expletive during recently completed standardized testing.

Austin Community College Fashion Incubator Set For Debut

Grand opening scheduled Tuesday, April 30, to showcase facility offering technical training for those in the burgeoning fashion industry.

Austin Community College 'Signing Day' Scheduled

More than 90 future students will gather in ceremony patterned after NCAA but as way of vowing to continue their education at ACC.

UT Students Call For Prof's Removal Amid Sexual Misconduct Claims

Members of the UT Senate of College Councils fast-track resolution calling for Coleman Hutchson to be removed from fall course schedule.

Eco-Friendly Austin Pre-Schoolers 'Root For Earth'

Little tykes from The Goddard School plan runway show displaying fashion crafted from recycled items among other activities.

Austin Community College Named 'Adobe Creative Campus'

Nation's first community college to gain the distinction, ACC makes entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite available to staff, pupils, faculty.

Austin Residents Initiated Into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Several students from Austin recently were initiated into the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate society.

UT-Austin Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship

Alyssa Ashcraft, a government and humanities junior who garnered $30K award, founded UT Outpost aimed at curbing food insecurity.

Texas Tech Agrees To End Affirmative Action Admissions Practices

University's agreement not to focus on race/ethnicity considerations rooted in 15-year complaint intensified under Trump administration.

6 Must-Know Dates For Austin Independent School District

While focus in on STAAR testing, it's a good time to plan ahead. Here's a half-dozen future key events for Austin ISD parents and students.

Ex UT-Austin Tennis Coach Pleads Guilty In Admissions Scandal

Michael Center, 54, admits guilt after being found to have accepted $60K in kickbacks for fraudulently admitting student as tennis recruit.

Austin Community College 'Casting Call' Set For Tuesday, April 9

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of ACC invited to offer testimonials that could be used as part of school's media campaign.

​¡​Ay, Chihuahua! Dog Boards Austin School Bus, Comedy Ensues

Austin ISD students were surprised to see a small, docile dog board the bus this week in what some view as a canine quest for education.

Group Offers $10K To Root Out UT-Austin Admissions Cheaters

Notices distributed near campus offer cash for information leading to arrests of anyone involved in growing college admissions scandal.

UT-Austin Outlines Future Of Austin Convention Center District

School's Center for Sustainable Development was tasked to envision future scenarios for area, and released its report on Friday.

UT-Austin Spirit Group Suspended For 6 Years For Hazing

Group known for firing 'Smokey the Cannon' at home games was found to have participated in extreme examples of hazing.

UT-Austin Astronomers Use AI To Find 2 New Planets

Team led by UT-Austin undergraduate Anne Dattilo created algorithm that sifts through data taken by Kepler to ferret out missed signals.

UT-Austin Issues New E-Scooter Use Rules

One big change is scooters' speeds will be reduced to 8 miles per hour on much of the main campus in move made to ensure students' safety.

UT-Austin Professor Awarded Top International Math Prize

Karen Uhlenbeck honored by Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for work centered on gauge theories, a keystone of modern physics.

Privately Owned UT Austin Dormitory Getting Face Lift

Notable for being the first modern high rise just a few feet from campus, Dobie Twenty21 is undergoing a total revamping, officials said.

UT Austin Tennis Coach Ensnared In College Cheating Scheme

Officials accuse Michael Center, who's coached men's tennis at UT for 18 seasons, of accepting $100K to fraudulently recruit student.