Post by pavel on Apr 11, 2016 18:31:04 GMT -6
A Dallas Morning News analysis of average undergraduate tuition and fees over the last quarter-century found that costs rose faster at most Texas public colleges and universities when lawmakers set the prices.
The findings run counter to much of the narrative among Austin politicos who say school officials have used their authority to force students to bear an ever-increasing burden of funding their education.
Those leading the charge for the “re-regulation” of tuition and fees – giving that power back to lawmakers – cite steep increases since four-year public university administrators began calling the shots 13 years ago.
That’s based on incomplete data published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which didn’t track data for the years preceding deregulation. The News analyzed all 37 Texas four-year public colleges and relied on federal data, which goes back much further than what the state maintains.
Read more: interactives.dallasnews.com/2016/tuition-costs/
The findings run counter to much of the narrative among Austin politicos who say school officials have used their authority to force students to bear an ever-increasing burden of funding their education.
Those leading the charge for the “re-regulation” of tuition and fees – giving that power back to lawmakers – cite steep increases since four-year public university administrators began calling the shots 13 years ago.
That’s based on incomplete data published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which didn’t track data for the years preceding deregulation. The News analyzed all 37 Texas four-year public colleges and relied on federal data, which goes back much further than what the state maintains.
Read more: interactives.dallasnews.com/2016/tuition-costs/