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- GenTX seeks to foster a "college-going culture" in Texas; launching in Ft Worth and San Antonio.
- Suggestions from policy makers to "grandfather" pension systems as budgeting device anticipated.
- District judge has upheld the 2009 Texas truth-in-grading law stating districts cannot enforce policies that require a minimum grade.
- TCCTA president, Fred Newbury, testified before the Senate Committee on Higher Education addressing ways to improve developmental education in Texas.
- Amarillo College renames the Biology Building in honor of the late Steve Dutton (1991-92 TCCTA President).
- Adjunct instructors and student retention.
- Significant changes to the way institutions are funded proposed by the Commissioner of Higher Education.
- The current expansion of online higher education is historic, monumental, and scrutinized.
- Texas Teacher Retirement Pension Fund ended the first quarter with a market value of more than $96 billion.
- Late registration hinders student success theory supported by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development.
- Dual credit courses are still less popular than Advanced Placement courses and other assessments.
- Are YOU registered for Leading from the Middle? The June18th deadline is Friday!
- Employers Retirement System of Texas "design changes" will entail increases in out-of-pocket costs.
- "Momentum Points" proposed to the House Committee on Higher Education and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Education by the Commissioner of Higher Education.
- Budget cuts mandated by Governor Perry and the presiding officers of the House and Senate.
- Grade inflation study examines class size, program selectivity, and the ability of students increasingly to "game the system."
- Your syllabi, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and HB 2054.
- Schools with high attrition could be penalized financially according to suggested "priority model."
- 2010 Piper Professor awards: Three community college faculty among the distinguished recipients.
- Employees Retirement System board of trustees will meet on May 25, to contend with a budget shortfall for the current biennium.
- For-profit colleges is one of the fastest-growing—and most controversial—sectors of education, catering to non-traditional students and capturing billions of federal financial aid dollars.
- Transfer 101: UT, TAMU, and TACC team to help students transfer successfully!
- Financial aid "priority model" would award grants to students who have already demonstrated potential for success.
- Commissioner of Higher Education Raymund Paredes wants the enrollment "census" day to take place at the end of the semester.
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Performance Funding “Talking Points”
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