During a Texas Tribune event on higher education, panelists also spoke about using the state’s historic surplus to improve the affordability of universities and keep rising costs down.
to state agencies and public university leaders earlier this month saying that they must stop using DEI policies in their hiring and that hiring cannot be based on factors “other than merit.”
“We’re watching what’s happening, but I just believe that we are doing the right thing for our community,” Hellyer said. But Keller said while it’s true that freezing tuition would improve costs for students, the real issues are rising costs in housing, transportation and groceries. Currently, Texas funds its two-year community colleges with three pots of money: local property taxes, student tuition and a complicated state system that has not kept pace with other resources and now accounts for less than 25% of community colleges’ funding.
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