Anatomy of a Revolution?

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Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D.

Tom K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is a distinguished senior fellow for Next Generation Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has more than two decades’ experience in education management and instruction, including service as a dean, provost, and college president.

In 2012, several Texas public universities developed degree programs costing approximately $10,000 each. These initiatives may well reverberate nationally as the first shots fired in an academic “revolution of rising expectations.””

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