Colleges and Universities

Without Pay Raise in Twenty Years, UH Grad Students Take Petition to Masses

One month before your friends began painting their Facebook profile pictures red in support of gay rights, a group of University of Houston English Teaching Fellows swapped their main photos to something of the same color: a shot of the Cougars' mascot, blazing red, with a bit of text underneath it: ... More >>

Nick Saban's Daughter Has Responded To Her Sorority Sister's Civil Lawsuit

Conflict stokes people, especially when it involves a cat fight between two sorority girls at Alabama, and especially when one of those two sorority girls is the daughter of the head football coach, Nick Saban. The number of people that read my post last week on the civil lawsuit filed by Sarah Grim ... More >>

Beer and Seed

Memory House

The TEA's New Standardized Testing Performance Standards: As Clear As Mud

The Texas Education Agency has released its new performance standards for the STAAR test, the newest statewide exam whose acronym we can't be bothered to decipher. The new standards will be phased in, which is good because it may take a while to understand them. They're as clear as anything could b ... More >>

Wheatley High Forfeits Five Basketball Games Because of Ineligible Players

Well, this is embarrassing: Just one day after the Attorney General of the United States visited its campus and gave an uplifting speech on doing what's right, Wheatley High has been forced to forfeit five basketball games because of ineligible players. The announcement from HISD said the school -- ... More >>

HCC Board Finally Takes Some Action On Its Members' Ethics

Wrists are being slapped​Seven freaking years ago our Josh Harkinson wrote about the board members of the Houston Community College System and their very relaxed attitude toward ethics and conflicts of interest and so on. HCCS pretty much closed up the ranks and did nothing much. Now it look ... More >>

UH Holding Out for More Tier One Funds, Blocking Legislative Deal

Coogs pushing hard in Austin.​The University of Houston is the last holdout in a vote to set the funding distribution method out of a voter-backed endowment devoted to ramping up the number of nationally ranked universities in Texas. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are the st ... More >>

Concealed Carry on Campus: (Conservative) Students Agree, Now Is the Time

What the sensible college student should be carrying​Things we learned today: "The Texas College Republicans and Young Conservatives of Texas don't always see eye to eye." Big Tent, baby!!! The claim comes in an announcement that -- despite the overwhelming variety of opinions among members o ... More >>

SPECIAL DREAM EDITION

Rice One Of Top 50 Universities In The World, Limeys Proclaim

Rice's ratings obviously don't include student radio​Rice University is the 47th best university in the entire world, a bunch of Brits say.The Times Higher Education Magazine has come out with the list, and they probably pronounce every school on it with a haughty accent, so you know it's true.Ric ... More >>

Game Time: Kyle Lowry -- Party On, Daryl Morey

The party starts​Anyone who went to a college with fraternities, sororities, or even just big-time football weekends knows what it's like to live on that row of houses or apartments where every Friday and Saturday is a parade of different keg parties.It's loud, it's raucous, and usually pretty dam ... More >>

Only 15 Percent Of HISD 9th-Graders End Up With A College Degree

No college degree for 85 percent of HISD 9th-graders?​About 15 percent of Houston Independent School District ninth graders will get a college degree.That stark news was delivered at the board of trustees early morning workshop today to the six board members in attendance (Anna Eastman, Diana Davi ... More >>

The Wager

Come on, I double-triple down dare you

SPECIAL HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION EDITION

UH & TSU Get A Little Closer To Each Other

​The University of Houston and Texas Southern University are near-neighbors across Scott Street, but that hasn't always made them the best of friends. UH has had a (under-the-table, to be sure) tendency to look down on the chronically troubled, historically black school.But these days, it's gettin ... More >>

UH's Taj Mahal Apartment Complex Not Exactly A Hot Seller

​It's hard out there for a pimped-out student housing facility.We reported back in May that UH was having trouble leasing rooms in Calhoun Lofts, the deluxe dorms intended for grad students to live in (as well as dance, take cooking lessons, do yoga and reach the summit of Maslow's hierarchy of n ... More >>

Houston Community College Looks Toward (Semi-) Big-Time Sports

​TP-ing the dean's house, frat brothers hazing pledges, people getting some strange after the football team's upset victory. These are some of the most sacred and time-honored college traditions, and Houston Community College would like its pupils to live them.Now HCC can't guarantee that you'll ... More >>

The Brunettes

Gun-Control Advocates Revel In Their Texas Triumph

Photo by don schulteThe folks at the gun-control organization The Brady Center are crowing over their victory in Texas. All you gun-loving yahoos couldn't pass a bill allowing concealed weapons on college campuses, the center all but said, and nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah."Common sense is alive and well in T ... More >>

UH Having Trouble Filling Its Fancy New Dorm

Photo courtesy UHCalhoun Lofts, UH's swanky new facility intended for graduate and professional students, has almost everything: a 24-hour fitness center, private terraces and programming that includes yoga and cooking classes. As of late as last week, though, one thing was missing from the expensiv ... More >>

Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill and the Roots of Alt-Rap

Beastie Boys, "So What'cha Want" Today is one of those cosmological coincidences so uncanny it may be no coincidence at all: the Beastie Boys' Mike D and Cypress Hill's Sen Dog were both born this day in 1965. (Scorpios represent!) In the late '80s and early '90s, from opposite sides of the U.S., ... More >>

Unbearably Beautiful: "Houston Collects"

This exhibit needs an editor, but it doesn't matter

How To Pick The Next Top University

Crime Stories

Rock Star Resolutions

Who vows to stay off the sauce this year?

Priscilla Slade and the TSU Three

Spurred on by a fellow student's death, Oliver Brown, William Hudson and Justin Jordan ran a gauntlet on their way to bring down a president

Drenched In Blog: Japanese Melody Roads and Songs for Houston's Highways

KENNEALLY'S IRISH PUB

Irish Coffee

The Sample Truth

A legendary Houston pianist works to improve Fifth Ward's schools

HouStoned Theatre Presents...

Pastoral U.

Sangria

Little Woodrow's

A Fly Little Party

The Party Frontier

The Also-Rans

The schools who could have been contenders

Animal House

Bad behavior at UH's Phi Kappa Theta fraternity

Mind Reading

Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

Best Frisbee Golf Course

Rice University disc golf course

Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars

Houston Community College

Best Place for Wedding Pictures

Lovett Hall

Best Yoga Studio

Sundance Yoga Studio

Best Shortcut

Museum District to West U through Rice campus

Third Degree

A fired UH prof sues in a student crusade for -- of all things -- geography

Letters

Rice Inc., Rodeo Rubbish, Thy Rod and Thy Staff

Sam Houston's Retreat?

SHSU stirred the higher-ed circles. Now the excitement has turned to exodus.

Where Angels Fear to Tread

When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas

Adding It All Up

What does it really mean to pass the TAAS?

The Insider

Adding Insult to Injury

UH professors go for the goal of dumping athletics