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In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower in Austin, Texas. A group of University of Texas professors is demanding the reversal of job cuts after the 52,000-student campus shut down a program this week to comply with one of the nation's most sweeping bans on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas’ diversity, equity and inclusion ban has led to more than 100 job cuts at state universities

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press

University of Texas at Austin student leaves a space that housed the school's "Multicultural Center," Jan. 29, 2024, in Austin, Texas. As Texas public university students returned to the classroom in January, a new law in Texas banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from state funded higher education institutions took effect. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas ban on university diversity efforts provides a glimpse of the future across GOP-led states

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A visitor views items on display at the Lady Bird: Beyond the Wildflowers exhibit at the LBJ Library, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Projects featuring Lady Bird Johnson’s voice offer new looks at the late first lady

By Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is moved from its location in front of the school's main tower at the University of Texas campus, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Austin, Texas. The Davis statue, which has been targeted by vandals and had come under increasing criticism, will be moved and placed in the school's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History as part of an educational display. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Report flags UT Austin for ‘clear ideological agenda’ in diversity, equity and inclusion policies

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Classroom, desks, chalkboard. (Photo credit: miya227 via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Texas A&M slapped with reverse discrimination lawsuit by White professor

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, speaks at the Taney County Lincoln Day event at the Chateau on the Lake in Branson, Mo., April 17, 2021. The ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens has accused him of physical abuse. That's according to an affidavit filed Monday in the former couple's child custody case in Missouri. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)

Eric Greitens calls ex-wife’s abuse claims ‘completely fabricated’

By Brian Slodysko and Jim Salter and Summer Ballentine - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, file photo, the Texas band take the field to perform before an NCAA college football between Texas and Louisiana-Lafayette in Austin, Texas. The Texas chapter of the NAACP and a group of UT students have filed a federal civil rights complaint against the University of Texas for its continued use of “The Eyes of Texas” school song, tune with racist elements in its past. The complaint filed Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, with the U.S. Department of Education alleges that Black students and faculty are being subjected to violations of the Civil Rights Act and a hostile campus environment. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Texas NAACP files federal complaint over ‘The Eyes of Texas’

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, file photo, Texas players, including Sam Ehlinger (11), sing &quot;The Eyes Of Texas&quot; after an NCAA college football game against Baylor in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas marching band and pep band will be required to play “The Eyes of Texas” school song when they return to performing, but the school will also create a new band that doesn't include it in its play list, the school has announced. The song has been mired in controversy since summer 2020 when a group of athletes and students called on the school to ditch the tune amid national racial injustice protests after the killing of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Longhorn Band will be required to play ‘The Eyes of Texas’

By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 photo shows The Pi Kappa Phi house in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has been shut down following a university investigation into hazing allegations, the third such accusation the chapter has faced in eight years. The investigation revealed that during the 2018-19 school year fraternity pledges were shot with air soft guns and forced to eat spicy soup made with ghost peppers and cat food. The probe found that pledges competed in relay races where they ran back and forth between the chapter house and a nearby apartment building while chugging milk mixed with hand soap, laundry detergent or vinaigrette. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

University of Texas fraternity closes over hazing claims

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2017 file photo, a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed from the University of Texas campus, in Austin, Texas. Judges for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Tuesday Oct. 8, 2019, in the latest effort to counter the University of Texas' removal of several Confederate statues. In 2017, after violent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., UT President Gregory L. Fenves authorized the removal of statues of Confederate figures — Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and John Reagan — along with Gov. James Stephen Hogg from the UT South Mall. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Group argues Confederate statue removals violate free speech

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University of Texas at Dallas celebrates 50th anniversary

By MARIA MENDEZ - Associated Press

University of Texas expands free tuition help

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Love of learning: East Texas senior citizens audit classes

By BETTY WATERS - Associated Press

University of Texas spirit team suspended 6 years for hazing

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UT coach, 2 other Texans named in college bribery scheme

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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson proposes pushing ahead with the transition to a Space Force whose main focus would be competition with Russia and China. (Associated Press)

Heather Wilson, Air Force secretary, resigns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2019, file photo, a screen with information from the Women's Law Project shows information on some of the proposed changes to the implementation of Title IX as it pertains to the sexual abuse regulations in education at the NOW monthly meeting in Monaca, Pa. Several of the nation’s largest universities receive more sexual assault complaints from off-campus than from school property, but their obligation to address off-campus cases could be dramatically reduced under a federal proposal. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Rule could limit college response to off-campus sex assaults

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2019, file photo, a screen with information from the Women's Law Project shows information on some of the proposed changes to the implementation of Title IX as it pertains to the sexual abuse regulations in education at the NOW monthly meeting in Monaca, Pa. Several of the nation’s largest universities receive more sexual assault complaints from off-campus than from school property, but their obligation to address off-campus cases could be dramatically reduced under a federal proposal. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Rule could limit college response to off-campus sex assaults

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Texas lawmaker gives up chairmanship after sexting probe

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