For the past 46 years, tuition revenue bonds have been used to effectively keep state debt on university balance sheets – a lack of systematization of TRB authorizations hurts Texas higher education. The paper is an overview of the history of TRBs in Texas, with recommendations for how the TRB authorization process can be improved.
What Happened to UT’s Outside Agitators?
Shortly after it was announced that 79 people had been arrested during the anti-Israel protests at the University of Texas at Austin in April, university officials and police reported that 45 of those arrested had no affiliation with UT. Subsequent arrests of campus protesters in Austin and around the country had similar metrics—a substantial percentage...