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Sources indicate the board has narrowed its search to five candidates: Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, Texas A&M Foundation President Tyson Voelkel, University of Alabama President Stuart Bell and state Rep. Trent Ashby, R-Lufkin.

Davis, who was named interim president one day earlier, replaced a provost who was named to the position by the university’s previous leader last month.

The designations come at a tumultuous time for universities as funding could be cut off and efforts to end tenure continue.

Students at the university created their own news organization — The Retrograde — after they reached an impasse with administrators regarding oversight and the firing of the campus newspaper’s editor-in-chief.

FIRE, which represented the student (Kimberly Diei) reports: After her First Amendment lawsuit set precedent last fall for student free speech rights,… The post U Tenn Pharmacy School Pays $250K Settlement for Trying to Expel Student for Sexually Themed Tweets appeared first on Reason.com.

The settlement vindicates Kimberly Diei's First Amendment right to comment on sexually explicit rap songs without suffering government retaliation.

In recent years university presidents have been facing growing political pressures, student and faculty pushback and an increasingly demanding job.

Faculty and students are experiencing profound disruption and distress, which starkly contrasts with the arrogant posture and detached demeanor of those perpetrating this harm.

On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients.

Media predicts who wins, covers in the SEC championship game between Georgia and Texas

The Longhorns made changing conferences look easy with dominant, physical win after 13-year wait in the series and all but locked up a College Football Playoff berth.