A special opinion piece for the New York Times by Dr. Anne-Marie Nuñez, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

Two area schools increased their academic performance on the 2015 Texas Education Agency Accountability Summary Performance Index Report as a result of their work with the National Center for Accelerated Schools (NCAS), a center housed in the UTSA College of Education and Human Development.

The UTSA Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs announces the promotion of 44 UTSA faculty members. The promotions were approved by the UT System Board of Regents earlier this month and are effective Sept. 1, 2015.

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Center for Civic Engagement

The title tells all: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. Author Linda Hirshman's joint biography of the first and second women to serve on the nation's highest court is a gossipy, funny, sometimes infuriating and moving tale of two women so similar and yet so different.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Culturati Research & Consulting, Inc., a cross-cultural market research agency and thought leader in the U.S. Hispanic market, announced today the launch of the Nielsen-Culturati Hispanic Segmentation. This new collaboration combines the power of Nielsen's Homescan Panel data with the depth of understanding of Culturati's attitudes and values-based U.S. Hispanic segmentation model.

“Money isn’t pixie dust” when it comes to improving public schools, lawyers for the state of Texas told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing an appeal in what has been described as the most far-reaching school finance case in state history. They urged the high court to either dismiss or remand the lawsuit brought four years ago by nearly two-thirds of the state's school districts.

Young female athletes may not eat enough calories to meet the higher nutritional needs that accompany hours of practice and competition, raising their risk of developing female athlete triad syndrome. Registered dietitian Jessica Buschmann says body-image issues can make it difficult for these athletes to embrace the need to eat as many as 3,500 calories per day.

It's 2015 and couples are deciding more and more to live a child-free life. Eileen delves into one couple's story about their choice to not have kids and gets an expert opinion by Dr. Heather Trepal, associate professor in the Department of Counseling, on why this trend is taking place.

When I started running my department’s Facebook account I didn’t have a clear reason for doing so; just a vague sense that in the 21st century every department needed one. Having added a Twitter account last summer, and a podcast series most recently, I’ve had some time to think about the rationale behind departmental social media.

rexel University has become the first U.S. college to deploy a “mental health kiosk” on campus. The sleek iPad-like device is stationed in the heavily trafficked student Recreation Center and is just one of several Drexel programs designed to support students' mental health. The hope is that omnipresent touch-screen technology might make that first call for help less intimidating.

What we want for Max, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is what all parents want for their collegebound children.

These days, Arran Phipps often feels depressed and stressed. The worrying has led to migraines, he says, and he has visited the student health clinic at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a doctoral student in physics. But seeking professional help feels inadequate, a Band-Aid, he says. "My reactions to what’s happening around me are totally valid and normal. It’s not like there’s a problem with the way I’m looking at things. That tells me there’s a culture problem in graduate school."