Jessica Priest
Higher Education Reporter at Texas Tribune
Professionally curious, but normally too busy to tweet! Higher education reporter @TexasTribune
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yahoo.com | Jessica Priest |Sneha Dey
"Once again targeting higher ed, Texas lawmakers limited faculty influence, campus speech this session" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
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texastribune.org | Jessica Priest |Sneha Dey
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Republican lawmakers continued their carrot-and-stick approach to higher education during this year’s legislative session, pressuring public universities into abandoning what they view as progressive policies.
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kbtx.com | Karley Cross |Jessica Priest
AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp reflected on his 14-year tenure Tuesday during a public conversation hosted by the Texas Tribune, ahead of his retirement at the end of June.
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dentonrc.com | Eleanor Klibanoff |Jessica Priest
Texas will no longer allow students who are living in the state without legal permission to pay in-state tuition following demands from the Trump administration to end the policy. Soon after the federal government sued Texas last week over a state law allowing the practice, Texas quickly asked the court to side with the feds and deem the law unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor‘s ruling did just that and immediately blocked the law.
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texastribune.org | Eleanor Klibanoff |Jessica Priest |Maria Mendez
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas is asking public colleges and universities to identify which of their students are living in the country illegally so they can start paying out-of-state tuition this upcoming fall. The change comes after the Trump administration demanded the state to end the policy earlier this month.
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Texas’ swift surrender to DOJ on undocumented student tuition raises questions about state-federal collusion https://t.co/ETZ58VEm8V via @TexasTribune
RT @lomikriel: TX spearheaded allowing undocumented students instate college tuition under @GovernorPerry. A conservative lege AGAIN didn't…
RT @jaspscherer: Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting its nearly 20,000 undocumented students qualify for l…