Tuition increases threaten affordable public higher education
March 5, 2010
Because Texas lawmakers subsequently have failed to adequately fund higher education, regents at the University of Houston and other state systems are caught in a fiscal squeeze. They must choose between damaging academic quality with layoffs and program cuts or passing along the pain to students. One exception: Texas Tech imposed a tuition freeze this past year. But for the most part it is the students who are paying more to shore up Lone Star universities.
Because Texas lawmakers subsequently have failed to adequately fund higher education, regents at the University of Houston and other state systems are caught in a fiscal squeeze. They must choose between damaging academic quality with layoffs and program cuts or passing along the pain to students. One exception: Texas Tech imposed a tuition freeze this past year. But for the most part it is the students who are paying more to shore up Lone Star universities.