Academics

The Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color, a new statewide network of school districts, community colleges and public universities, officially launched this summer.

  MEDIA ADVISORY Event: The University of Texas Elementary School 10th Anniversary Celebration When: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m.

As part of a UT Accounting class, 200 students left the classroom and headed out in the community to help file 18,310 tax returns for low-income residents. Read about the impact on others and themselves.

Engineering and business students at UT now have a way to gain professional experience overseas in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, thanks to a new summer internship abroad program. Read more about the BE Global.

New and current University of Texas at Austin students who live in Fort Bend County will have the opportunity to receive a full tuition scholarship in memory of Hilmar Moore, a passionate alumnus who had served as mayor of Richmond for 63 years.

Kicking their summer off with a trip to China, a group of Longhorns learned about social entrepreneurship and volunteered at a Beijing school for children of migrant workers. See a slideshow.

Event: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, one of the leading educational foundations in the country, has selected The University of Texas at Austin as a distinguished institution for training the next generation of history teachers. Twenty-five primary and secondary education teachers from schools throughout the country (including three in Texas) will participate in…

President Bill Powers responds to Supreme Court decision on UT Admissions policy. Read the full statement here.

In an effort to further extend teacher training and educational development to international markets, the Global Initiative for Education and Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin is helping to organize the Gulf Education Conference and Exhibition (GECE) on June 19-20 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London.

The Latino Male Symposium has convened since 2011 to discuss this ongoing educational crisis in Texas and throughout the country.

In one of the nation’s largest-scale initiatives to incorporate new technologies into the delivery of large enrollment lower-division courses, The University of Texas at Austin will add five courses to its Course Transformation Program.