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Trump administration reinstates visas for Tarrant County international college students

By Shomial AhmadApril 29, 2025May 7, 2025

The Trump administration reversed course on Tarrant County international students whose visas were revoked in early April.

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North Texas colleges are changing building designs as they expand. Here’s why

By Shomial AhmadApril 27, 2025April 29, 2025

Construction is booming at colleges across Tarrant County. Higher education leaders are looking not only at how a building is designed but also the ways in which people will use the space.

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Trump administration revokes visas for 27 University of Texas at Arlington students

By Shomial AhmadApril 11, 2025April 14, 2025

UTA President Jennifer Cowley told the campus community that the university does not have specifics behind the decisions to revoke the visas. 

Posted inFort Worth

Texas DEI ban leads to NAACP event abruptly moving from Tarrant County College

By Shomial AhmadApril 11, 2025April 15, 2025

The college had hosted a talent competition for Black high school students for more than 15 years.

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‘Too important to fail.’ UTA monitors impact of federal orders on $155M in research

By Shomial AhmadApril 7, 2025April 9, 2025

UTA receives more than $60 million in federal research funds annually.

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UTA West one step closer to 2028 opening as officials break ground on site near Aledo

By Shomial AhmadApril 3, 2025April 9, 2025

The first building is set to be completed in 2028. Eventually, years after that building is completed, the campus will be ready to serve over 10,000 students.

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More early childhood educators needed. A proposed Tarrant County College program may fill the need

By Shomial AhmadMarch 31, 2025April 4, 2025

A bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and teaching from Tarrant County College is only a proposal right now. But if the community college system gets the approval from a higher education accreditor, the degree path could become reality in fall 2026.

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UTA West is coming to Parker County. Residents look at the many sides of growth

By Shomial AhmadMarch 17, 2025March 21, 2025

Driving west on Interstate 20 from Fort Worth into Parker County, all the signs of a boom town appear: orange construction signs and a closed freeway lane, traffic and trucks, the vistas of open land and luxury housing developments in the distance.

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UTA places faculty member known for activism, arrests on leave. He wonders why

By Shomial AhmadMarch 11, 2025March 14, 2025

Charlie Hermes, a University of Texas at Arlington faculty member who has been arrested three times over civil disobedience while protesting in the past year, has been placed on paid administrative leave at the university.

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UTA professor’s work in historically Black Fort Worth neighborhood reminds her of home

By Letora AndersonMarch 8, 2025March 14, 2025

Letora Anderson is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. Anderson writes about her experience developing relationships with residents living at Garden of Eden.

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