I’m back from a much needed 2-week vacation, recharged to continue covering everything higher ed in North Texas and across the state. Starting with big news from UTA: a brand new campus — 51 acres — is coming to Fort Worth. Read more Dallas Morning News: dallasnews.com/news/education…

NEW: Back to school while banned from campus: UT Dallas students arrested during a May 1 pro-Palestinian protest still face criminal and academic consequences. dallasnews.com/news/education…

This year — for the first time in Columbia University Journalism School's history — prospective students can apply to all degree programs at no cost. Learn more about this next step of the #CJS2030 Access Initiative: journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fee-w… 📷: Eileen Barroso

BREAKING: Two Texas women are asking the federal gov to step in after they were allegedly denied abortion care for ectopic pregnancies and each lost a fallopian tube, according to documents filed by Center for Reproductive Rights with HHS.gov. More to come Dallas Morning News

WINNER! Explanatory Reporting, Medium Newsroom: Bleeding Out: A Public Health in the American Trauma System by Dallas Morning News and San Antonio Express-News awards.journalists.org/entries/bleedi… #OJA24

Alexis Payton is the father of a 14-year-old Houston ISD student who died Wednesday at Marshall Middle School. He says he reviewed footage where he heard the school's nurse say she did not know how to perform CPR or use a AED, Claire reports. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

NEW: SMU's President R. Gerald Turner is stepping down after 30 years. dallasnews.com/news/education…

A beautiful Sunday front for today’s Dallas Morning News.

North Texas is experiencing a college boom. Most public university system in TX have growing campuses in D-FW, including A&M and Texas Tech. In recent years, they have invested hundreds of millions in new buildings and renovations. Read more Dallas Morning News: dallasnews.com/news/education…

The Dallas Morning News front page today — tributes for fallen Officer Darron Burks

NEW: UNT prohibits faculty from hosting nonpartisan voter registration groups in their classes. The policy was not communicated to all faculty, generating lots of confusion. UNT spokesperson told me the reason is a 1993 state law. Read more Dallas Morning News: dallasnews.com/news/education…

The University of Texas at Austin is opening a competitive tech program to first-year students beginning with the 2025-26 school year. dallasnews.com/news/education…

📺 Our Marcela Rodrigues joins NBC DFW in moments to discuss a unique learning option at UT Austin. Watch the conversation live, and check out this story for all the details. 👀 Watch: buff.ly/2T1TjNZ?utm_me…  👓 Read the story: dallasnews.com/news/education…

Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz landed in Dallas on Monday ahead of a private fundraiser. Here's what to know about his Texas visit: bit.ly/47B0nst

BREAKING: UNT eliminates three faculty senate committees and all of its employee resource groups, citing the Texas DEI ban, also known as SB 17. dallasnews.com/news/education…

The Dallas Morning News has been doing important reporting on the consequences of #SB17 in #HigherEd. Here's another revealing story by Marcela Rodrigues: UNT cites Texas’ DEI ban for cutting employee groups for women, LGBTQ, Christians, others dallasnews.com/news/education…

Federal nuclear power regulators have approved the first nuclear research reactor in 40 years for a university in Texas dallasnews.com/news/education…

Tx AG Attorney General Ken Paxton wants the Texas Secretary of State to get the feds to verify the citizenship status of ONE MILLION Texas voters. That's about 5.6% of all registered voters in the state.

The Mercury, the UT-Dallas student newspaper, had its website shut down for nearly 24 hours, following a student strike and the removal of the editor-in-chief. Read more Dallas Morning News: dallasnews.com/news/education…