.UT Austin students sent a letter to Jay Hartzell and Brandon Creighton asking for transparency and inviting them to a student-led town hall after UT cut 60+ staff positions and its DCCE April 2. As of Friday afternoon, they say they haven’t heard back.
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Front page story today Austin Statesman: read what lawmakers, community leaders from Texas NAACP Texas Conference of the AAUP told press about the layoffs of former DEI staff at UT Austin. “This was a breach of trust” State Rep. State Representative Ron Reynolds said.

NEW: Dan Patrick releases his priorities for the 2025 Legislative Session. For Texas higher education, this includes reviewing the role of faculty senates, monitoring SB 17 and SB 18, preventing antisemitism on campuses and examining campus free speech.

Over the weekend, CapMetro unveiled a new mural as part of McKalla Station outside Austin FC's Q2 Stadium. Titled 'The Heartbeat of Austin,' the roughly 600 square-foot mural is made up of more than 130,000 glass pieces. Austin Statesman La Murga de Austin statesman.com/story/news/loc…

INBOX: Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe released a statement before a press conference today stating that the org has verified 66 people who have lost their jobs from UT Austin. He writes they believe the total is “greatly in excess” of that number. Stay tuned via Austin Statesman.

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.UT Austin AAUP has sent a letter to UT Austin president Jay Hartzell imploring him to revoke the terminations and reinstate the DCCE. They write “Staff who have been terminated deserve to be told why they are being terminated, and they deserve a grievance process.”

At 8 a.m. this morning, these signs could be found on UT Austin buildings. Others were removed. #txed

Students and staff are reeling after UT Austin told at least 60 staff members they would lose their jobs and closed a division offering “life saving” services 3 months after SB 17. “We did not see this coming,” a student tells me. Read the story below.
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.Texas NAACP, Texas Conference of the AAUP call on UT Austin 'to be forthcoming about these terminations, their impact on University services to students and the community, and the provisions made to displaced staff, who until today had been assured that their positions were not in jeopardy.'