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Focuses on Texas Governor George W. Bush and his mixed record on higher education in Texas. His support for the ten percent law, which allows the top ten percent of high school students to be admitted into state colleges; Civil rights debates about college education in Texas; Budget battles; Impact of his stance on higher education on his presidential campaign.

Focuses on the debate by officials of Texas Tech University in Lubbock and Texas' University of Houston's main campus over whether to build more research facilities or improve existing ones. How the Chancellor of the Board of Regents, William H. Cunningham, backed a proposal to receive more state financing on the condition that two other universities receive funding first; Arguments for and against adding a tier one research institute to increase school ranking.

Focuses on the efforts of colleges outside Texas to recruit minority high school students from Texas. Background on the 1996 Hopwood vs. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Financial aid as a persuasion tactic offered by recruiters; Attempts by counselors to dissuade minority students from attending out-of-state schools.

Reports on the plan of Texas A&M University in College Station to extend the offer of guaranteed admission to a certain percentage of graduates from several high schools, as of January 2002. Objective of the plan; Implication of the plan on a federal court's ban on affirmative action at the state's colleges; Criticisms drawn by the plan.

Reports on the introduction of Shop 'n' Scan, a wireless scanner that can ring up customers' purchases, at the supermarkets of Albertsons Corp. in Colleyville, Texas.

Focuses on the excellence funds bill approved by the Texas Legislature in May 2001 for public universities. Aim of the bill; Type of research universities the fund favors; Universities that will receive federal funds; Problems with the bill.

Focuses on a study which reported a number of high schools that are accounted for the entering class in the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 after lawmakers approved a plan to admit the top 10 percent of graduates from every high school in the state in 1996. Comparison on the number of students in the university between 1996 and 2000; One of the criticisms of the class-rank plan.

Deals with the approval of a plan for an increase in the number of students for colleges by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Percentage of increase by 2015; Coverage of the plan; Proposals by the board to achieve the goal of the plan; Details on the plan to increase federal aid to research.

Offers higher-education related news briefs from the United States as of May 12, 2000. Panel findings that show poor record of integration among Louisiana colleges and universities; Recommendations by a Texas higher education board for federal aid to the two historically black public colleges in the state; Naming of Byron McClenney as president of Kingsborough Community College; Criticism of Alabama Board of Education's plans to merge Montgomery's two technical colleges.

Focuses on the efforts of college officials in Texas to recruit minority students. The 1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Use of an adversity index to increase the number of scholarships offered by Texas schools to minority students; Role of campus location in students' college choices; Insecurities of minority students who do not feel welcome at Texas schools.

Reports that Texas Attorney General John Cornyn has rescinded his predecessor's 1997 legal opinion that prevented state colleges from offering race-exclusive scholarships. Court ruling on the use of affirmative action by colleges in admissions; State lawmakers' views on Cornyn's opinion.

Presents state higher education-related news for June 4, 1999. Appointment of Marshall Drummond, former president of Eastern Washington University, as chancellor of the Los Angeles (California) Community College District; Lawsuits charging discrimination and perpetuation of racial segregation at Texas Southern University; A panel's defense of affirmative action in higher education.

Offers news briefs on issues relating to United States colleges and universities. Removal of Texas Southern University President James M. Douglas by the Board of Regents in Houston after extending his contract for two years; Reaction from University of Connecticut professors to a proposal by Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland that they teach one more course per year.

Presents brief articles pertaining to higher education in the United States. End of the University of Texas at Austin's program aimed at recruiting minority professors; Federal tax credits for students; Report that the University of Missouri at St. Louis may bar the Ku Klux Klan from sponsoring programs on the university's public radio.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reports that a federal judge in Texas has refused to award damages to the white plaintiffs in an affirmative-action lawsuit filed against the University of Texas. The determination that the plaintiffs would not have been admitted to the University of Texas law school even if it had used a race-neutral admission process; Details of the decision in the trial known as Hopwood v. Texas.

Reports that Austin Community College has announced plans to hire 60 full-time professors by 2001. Requirements of the proposal; Reasons for the decision; Predicted amount of money the hiring plan will bring to the college's budget.

Reports that tobacco companies will have to give four Texas university medical centers more than $400 million in 1998 as part of a multi-billion dollar settlement of a lawsuit over tobacco-related health-care costs. Comments from Texas Attorney General Dan Morales; How the money would be spent.

Reports on a variety of stories from across the United States related to higher education. The chancellor of the University of Texas System deciding not to finance a political-action committee; None of the black applicants to the University of California at San Diego's School of Medicine being accepted; The Idaho State Board of Education denying a grant for a project on gay history; A growth of college-savings plans among middle-income families.

Reports that the hiring of H. Prentice Baptiste as dean of education at New Mexico State University has prompted criticism, given the sexual harassment complaint filed against him while at the University of Houston. Details of the Houston charges; Comments from William B. Conroy, New Mexico State University president; Baptiste's lawsuit against Houston; Comments from Baptiste.

Offers news briefs having to do with higher education. How the University of California Board of Regents was accused of violating the state's open-meeting law in deciding to restrict affirmative action; How the Texas Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that could increase the funds that the University of Texas receives; How teacher-education students get higher scores on the Praxis II test for teacher licensure than do people who have never enrolled in a teacher-training program; Others.