University of Texas 
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SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
3/31/2022
Tom Staley, 86, Built UT's Ransom Center into Key Research Destination
"Staley turned the archives into a global powerhouse that rivals the collecting achievements of Harvard University, Yale University and the British Museum."
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
3/7/2021
A University of Texas Report Will Find That ‘The Eyes of Texas’ Has “No Racist Intent”
A University of Texas Commission's report will likely serve as reinforcement for the administration's decision to keep the tradition of playing "The Eyes of Texas" after football games, pleasing many rich donors and angering student activists.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/6/2021
Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
"In 1903, the two students premiered their song at an annual campus minstrel show, where white musicians performed it in blackface. It became a tradition at subsequent minstrel shows and was soon embedded in the university’s culture. Some people apparently want to keep it there forever."
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
3/1/2021
“UT Needs Rich Donors”: Emails Show Wealthy Alumni Supporting “Eyes of Texas” Threatened to Pull Donations
A number of wealthy University of Texas alumni have threatened to withhold donations unless "The Eyes of Texas," a song with roots traced to blackface minstrelsy and the Lost Cause mythology, is reinstated as the Longhorns' postgame anthem.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/19/19
New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
by Asher Price
Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-24-14
Souvenirs of a Literary Alchemist
Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Goes to University of Texas
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SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action Could Give Private Universities Advantage
by John Willingham
Credit: Wiki Commons.The Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision with Justice Ginsburg dissenting, has issued a ruling in the Fisher v. University of Texascase that will likely require public universities to explore virtually all race-neutral alternatives in their attempts to achieve diversity before being able to use race as a factor in admissions.The ruling was probably the result of a compromise that, while not overturning previous decisions and not ruling that UT’s use of race is unconstitutional, will nevertheless lead to greater difficulty for colleges that want to use race as a factor in admissions.The decision vacates the ruling in favor of UT Austin by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and remands the case to the circuit court with instructions to apply "strict scrutiny" to the university’s rationale for using race as an admissions factor.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
1-28-13
Richard Pells: The Obsession With Social History
Richard Pells is professor of history emeritus at the University of Texas. He is the author of four books on modern American culture, most recently Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture (Yale University Press, 2011).The National Association of Scholars recently released a report excoriating the teaching of American history at the University of Texas at Austin and, to a lesser extent, at Texas A&M University at College Station.The report argues that there is an almost monomaniacal preoccupation in American-history courses withon the issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Meanwhile, it argues, not enough attention is being paid to the history of American politics, economics, and culture, and the military.The report has caused considerable fury among University of Texas historians,and it has apparently incensed American historians at other universities as well. Its critics have accused the association's writers of being conservative assailants who don't know what they're talking about.It's true that the NAS is a conservative organization. Yet being conservative does not by itself make an organization uninformed or invalidate its report....
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