Texas higher education faces a crisis in standards. Students receive higher grades now than ever before, even though studies show that too many students (36%) learn little during their four years invested in college. Yet, in spite of inflated grades and a diluted, intellectually aimless curriculum, nearly 40% of students at Texas’ public four-year colleges fail to graduate within six years of enrollment. The fact that the higher education establishment now focuses on six-year rather than four-year graduation rates is another troubling sign.
Higher Education
Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies
Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on...
February 3, 2026