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VIDEOThe University of Texas at Austin Center for Media Engagement had a conference in November 2021 in which the liberal participants openly supported ditching objectivity in order to hype "Solidarity Journalism" to promote "social justice." Here are few highlights (or lowlights) of them basically declaring HOORAH FOR BIAS! Keep in mind this "Solidarity Journalism" is a leftist ideology that is now openly embraced by many, if not most, of the liberal media outlets and is being taught in Journalism schools around the country. This conference was hosted by the foremost proponent of "Solidarity Journalism," Anita Varma who is described as...

By now, only the most dishonest or intentionally ignorant observers deny the existential crisis facing higher education. Universities no longer even maintain the pretense of dispassionate rational and free inquiry, focusing instead on a particularly toxic and frankly absurd form of “social-justice” activism, increasingly even in the hard sciences. Why does this situation persist? Here, I can contribute to our understanding, having had a front-row seat to perhaps the most spectacular failure of a higher-education reform effort in recent memory: the “Liberty Institute” at the University of Texas at Austin. No other recent effort that I know of has boasted...

A research program promoted by the University of Texas at Austin instructs White children as young as four on how to deal with "anti-Black racism." The program, known as "GoKar" with the KAR standing for "Kids Against Racism," is a voluntary study given to White caregiver-child pairs where the children are four and five years old and have not yet started kindergarten, according to College Fix.... ...UT Austin researchers are attempting to recruit up to 200 caregiver-child pairs to participate in four weeks of engagement totaling 7.5 hours.

Alumni of the University of Texas Austin are fighting back this week to try to save their historic school song from cancellation after it was found to have Confederate origins. UT Austin has a longstanding tradition that the school’s spirit song “The Eyes of Texas” is played after football games. Performed to the tune of “I’ve been working on the railroad,” the song was was historically performed at minstrel shows on campus.

Peek went on to major in international politics at Princeton, study Persian, and pursue a master's in international relations at Harvard before heading to D.C. as a foreign policy researcher for the conservative Heritage Foundation. He then became a foreign policy adviser to Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, a Republican. When Smith lost his next election, Peek went on to work for another Republican senator, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, on Syria and Lebanon policy, helping to draft a bill expanding sanctions on Hezbollah. In 2008, he enlisted as a reserve officer in the Army and spent a year in Afghanistan at...

In an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow Wednesday, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a shout out to the University of Texas for its recent announcement promising free tuition to University of Texas at Austin students whose annual household income is less than $65,000. Sanders joined Maddow on her show to discuss the 2020 race as well as the spread of his progressive policy ideas among his fellow candidates and across the country... The goal of this new plan by the UT Board of Regents is to make higher education more accessible for middle and low-income students. In-state undergraduate...

Written in 1903, the University of Texas fight song’s opening lyrics are “The Eyes of Texas are upon you/All the livelong day.” Unfortunately, for many on campus, the sentiments expressed are more than just a catchy tune—it’s a frightening reality. Thanks to four policies that the school maintains—a verbal harassment ban, an Acceptable Use Policy governing internet & digital use, a Residence Hall Manual, and a “Campus Climate Response Team”—the eyes of the University of Texas really are on students, keeping tabs on their speech all the time, everywhere. First: UT’s ban on “verbal harassment.” Contained in the school’s Institutional...

<p>The Young Conservatives of Texas at UT Austin (YCT) held a pro-Kavanaugh demonstration on Tuesday as counter-protesters aggressively tried to stop the event from occurring, yelling “this is a fuck you to survivors” and claiming that the demonstration threatened “the safety of students on campus.</p>

Signs ripped up in anger. Chants of “we believe survivors.” Furious finger pointing. A large group of students became enraged Tuesday afternoon by a pro-Brett Kavanaugh tabling effort at the University of Texas at Austin put together by its Young Conservatives of Texas chapter. A crowd of furious students encircled the group and yelled at its members while chanting obscenities and destroying their signs. The conservative group had decided to set up a “Confirm Kavanaugh” display in an effort to show support for the embattled U.S. Supreme Court judge nominee and argue for the need for corroborating evidence, said student...

The latest racket in higher education, evident at my alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, is the disturbing proliferation of “social justice” as a degree program, a course topic, an academic emphasis, and even as a prerequisite in campus job descriptions. “Social justice” is a seemingly innocuous term with no established definition. Many members of the general public construe it as a harmless synonym for “fairness.” But to progressives—who dominate the academy these days—“social justice” is a colloquial expression with a specific meaning: economic equity (the redistribution of wealth), “sustainability” (a pre-industrial environmental ethos), and the elimination of...

Authorities say the man suspected of fatally stabbing one student and wounding three others at the University of Texas was suffering from mental health troubles. University Police Chief David Carter says that 21-year-old Kendrex J. White was recently involuntarily committed in another city. Carter says the suspect was "obviously" suffering from some kind of mental difficulties. He did not elaborate.White, who was enrolled at the Austin campus, was described by former classmates as intelligent and easygoing and was active in a student group for black professionals. Witnesses described a sudden and seemingly random assault on strangers the middle of the...

Multiple people were stabbed near Gregory Gym at the University of Texas at Austin Monday afternoon, according to Austin-Travis County EMS. One person is dead on scene and three other victims are being transported, according to EMS.

As if the first day of college isn’t stressful enough, when classes resumed at the University of Texas Wednesday, students and staff were met with an influx of protests and rallies regarding campus carry, which was implemented earlier this month. The first protest began at 8 a.m. with students carrying around adult sex toys in protest of the new law allowing concealed carry on campus. The group, Cocks not Glocks, is asking anyone against the concealed carry law to wear them on their backpacks through Labor Day.

"It's illegal to offend people," said the UT-Austin police officer to a Christian evangelist. The officer then proceeded to write the evangelist a citation. Yes, that actually happened in America. Thankfully, the citation was later voided and the officer received re-training. The event occurred just off campus where two evangelists were preaching against homosexuality. According to the police officer, a student complained that he was being "verbally harassed" which in fact he was not. The whiney student, if he exists at all, was simply being exposed to words and ideas that offended him. The accusation of "verbal harassment" is the...

The debate over removing Confederate symbols from public grounds is heating up on a major college campus in Texas. As Austin American-Statesman reporter Ralph Haurwitz points out, someone tagged "black lives matter" in graffiti across three statues of Confederate leaders on the UT-Austin campus. Pressure is building in the state to remove the statues at UT-Austin. A Change.org petition has garnered thousands of signatures, and on Tuesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) and Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush to take the statues down. The school is debating whether to remove the statues. According...

For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission. Speaking on an educational panel at a conference in Austin, Dr. Gregory Vincent –University of Texas’ Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement – bragged about his institution’s legal victory. “I was actually encouraged by the Supreme Court endorsing this idea that diversity is a compelling interest,” said Vincent, adding that “the idea that all students benefit from having exposure to students from different backgrounds.”...

The issue of affirmative action may soon find itself again before the Supreme Court of the United States. university of texas-austin Court watchers will remember that it was just recently (a little more than a year ago) that the Court took up the issue, in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Despite what some may have been looking for in a broad, sweeping denunciation or approval of using race-based factors in college admissions, the Court decided to remand, or send the issue back down to the circuit court so that the case could be “considered and...

We have written about the travails of University of Texas regent Wallace Hall who, because of his investigation into UT practices, became a bête noire to the political establishment in the state capitol. wallace hall jr texas regent As we noted, the nominally Republican speaker of the Texas state house called for an investigation of Hall, and, since then, at least one assemblyman has called for Hall’s impeachment. “Apparently, the more questions he asked, the more feathers he ruffled,” State Representative David Simpson noted in an open letter to his colleagues. “Allegedly rushing to the defense of UT, a legislator...

We have long held that trustees don’t do nearly enough to act as a reality check on the universities they are entrusted with. Of course, when one comes along, the universities don’t like it one bit. “The University of Texas system has spent the past two years airing plenty of dirty laundry, and that is thanks in large part to Wallace L. Hall Jr.,” Jack Stripling reports in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Mr. Hall, who was appointed to the Texas Board of Regents in 2011, has made it his mission to look into the dark corners of the university,...

Professors dependent on government subsidies in Texas are complaining about a new law there that forces them to let their students know what is in their courses before they are trapped in their classrooms. “When University of Texas at Austin junior Taurie Randermann complained to her boss that her course titled ‘Communication and Religion’ was actually about fringe cults like Wiccans and Heaven’s Gate, she kicked off a major change in how much information Texas colleges and universities provide students about course offerings,” The Education Reporter reported in the September 2010 issue of the newsletter. “Randermann’s boss, Texas Republican State...