Students

Execs Give MBA Students A Few Reality Lessons

Embrace change, invest in technology and make tough decisions based on research and instinct. That's just one message that Full-Time MBA students learned recently as part of the Executive Link program. read more

Staff

Giving by Faculty and Staff Sets Records

For the fifth consecutive year, UT Dallas' contributions to the State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) have bested the previous year's donations. read more

Campus

Work Begins on a More User-Friendly Campus

Students, faculty, staff and city leaders were on hand Thursday afternoon to celebrate the groundbreaking of an historic campus enhancement project. read more

Flags Fly at Half-Staff for Jim Mattox

Flags flew lower at UT Dallas on Thursday in remembrance of former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, who died at age 65. read more

Faculty

French Embassy Sponsors Prof's Lecture

Dr. Stephen G. Rabe will lecture on U.S. policy toward Latin America during the Cold War at the Institute of the Americas (Institut des Ameriques) at the Sorbonne on Friday, Nov. 21. read more

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In Print & On Air

“It's important to act engaged in your environment, be it through learning, be it through social interaction, be it through exercise. I think what we'll find out is that what's bad is sitting home alone in a quiet room watching television.”

Denise Park, T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Brain Science
— AARP Bulletin Today

 

“Some of these 'outdated' criteria included the size of the mortgage payment relative to income, credit history, savings history and income verification.”

Stan Liebowitz, professor of economics,
on the relaxed lending standards
that preceded the mortgage crisis
— The Washington Times

Friday
November 21, 2008