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.
Islamist Influence
Right under our noses in Texas, Islamist actors — cloaked in the language of charity, education, and cultural outreach — have quietly extended their influence deep into our communities, schools, and universities. What was once fringe concern has now become a strategic issue of foreign influence and ideological penetration that demands serious attention. Governor Greg...