In 2011, Texas Governor Perry challenged universities to craft $10,000 degrees. "Revolution Rising?" is an update on Texas’ Affordable Baccalaureate Degrees. The 2014 Affordable Baccalaureate Program best incorporates the means specified by the governor, and could serve as a model for the country.
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