Matt Daley

Matt Daley is a government and biology senior from Georgetown, Texas. Before joining The Daily Texan, Matt served as a Student Government representative.

Recent Contributions

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A contradictory message

October 20, 2011

The best way to improve four-year graduation rates is to not increase tuition at all.
Clean up the catalog

September 28, 2011

Small departments are proliferating at an alarming rate. Even many of the so-called interdisciplinary programs are themselves tiny silos by another name. And we do not need any more silos; we need more warehouses.
Diluting the student vote

September 20, 2011

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent Texas’ new political district maps back to the drawing board.
Parking meters still a raw deal

September 13, 2011

The proposal voted on Tuesday night still has one major problem. The proposed profit sharing model originally split profits 70-30, with 30 percent staying in the neighborhood and 70 percent going to the city.
The university assembly line

August 30, 2011

In recent months, UT has come under increasing pressure to optimize its operations. But in implementing them, administrators should be careful not to create a prohibitively costly alternative to students who would not graduate on time.
Students dealt another blow

August 3, 2011

Part of the debt deal just passed in Congress will change the way many students pay for graduate school.
Paper or canvas?

July 27, 2011

Mayor Lee Leffingwell introduced a resolution Monday that would eventually lead to a ban on plastic shopping bags in most Austin stores.
ODonnell misses the mark again

July 20, 2011

O’Donnell released a report based on data recently released by the UT and Texas A&M University Systems.
Reopening an old front on education

July 6, 2011

Days after the end of the special legislative session and on the brink of a holiday weekend, the governor’s office announced the appointment of Barbara Cargill to chair of the State Board of Education.
Dont centralize higher-education reform

June 22, 2011

Amid a flurry of outside reports and think tank publications suggesting to universities ways to improve how they teach, it may be tempting to the casual observer to assume that UT lacks meaningful in-house ideas or ways to generate them.
Invest more in education

June 21, 2011

Debating how to deal with a large budget shortfall during this legislative session, lawmakers pressured universities to be “more efficient.” Largely absent from this debate has been the pivotal role that college readiness plays in determining how “efficiently” a university’s teaching operation can be.

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