Media interest in higher education frequently shifted throughout the Texas Legislature’s 84th regular session, from reforms concerning campus carry to those on funding veterans’ education and reintroducing tuition limits. Yet in the end, almost none of the many reforms proposed for improving higher-education quality, affordability, or transparency lived to reach the governor’s desk. By far the most significant piece of higher-education legislation passed was HB 100, which would authorize $3.1 billion in tuition revenue bonds for campus construction projects.
Which DEI Positions Did UT-Austin Eliminate?
On Monday, a laundry list of left-leaning groups held the “Rally for our UT! Stop the Purge” protest to air their grievances against the state’s new commonsense law to curtail DEI programs at colleges and universities. The assembly of aggrieved—which included the Texas State Employees Union, the American Association of University Professors-UT Branch, NAACP, Texas...