Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Texas State's MFA program ranked 45th out of 131 full-residency graduate writing programs in the Poets & Writers survey for the application year 2012, the final year the rankings were released. [1] The program was also cited by The New York Times as having the vision "to build a program that might rival the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop." [2]
Texas State is home to more than 30 research centers and institutes, including the Center for Analytics and Data Science, [80] The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, [81] The Texas School Safety Center, [82] the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, [83] the Center for the Study of the Southwest, [84] the ...
Graduate students employees are excluded from Federal bargaining rights under the Taft–Hartley Act's exclusion of state and local government employees. The various state laws differ on which subgroups of academic student employees may bargain collectively, and a few state laws explicitly exclude them from bargaining.
Some states—such as California and Texas—support more than one such system. State universities get subsidies from their states. The amount of the subsidy varies from university to university and state to state, but the effect is to lower tuition costs below those of private universities for students from that state or district.
The Coordinated Admissions Program (CAP) offers some UT Austin applicants the chance to attend the university if they complete their freshman year at another system school and meet specified requirements. [81] Each institution in the University of Texas System sets its own admissions standards, and not all schools may accept a particular CAP ...
The School of Dramatic Arts' MFA programs will waive tuition costs for incoming and current students starting this fall. USC's graduate acting and dramatic writing programs are now tuition-free ...
The Permanent University Fund was established by the 1876 Constitution of the State of Texas. [2] Initially, its assets included one-tenth of University of Texas at Austin lands bordering the railroads (UT Austin was granted 1 million acres (4,000 km 2) in West Texas as compensation) as well as 1 million acres (4,000 km 2) additional. [3]
Traditionally, the state of California has been the largest public supporter of the UC system. In response to state budget woes, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau in 2011 made the claim that his own university is turning into a federal and not a state institution because of the inversion of the proportion of funds given by each ...