Texas higher ed leaders optimistic about funding, faculty uneasy about culture wars as new session starts

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Despite the competing demands from entities to access some of Texas' projected $188.2 billion surplus, higher education leaders and advocates are optimistic that the state will use some of that money to invest in public universities and community colleges.

said they would support creating a separate fund for Tech and UH. Abbott has floated an annual $1 billion fund for each school.

and America’s history of racism in the classroom. Last year, Patrick said on Twitter that he planned to expand that restriction to higher education. In Florida, Gov. Rick DeSantis signed one of the strictest anti-CRT laws in the country. It limits the types of conversations that can occur in public universities, including how university professors present curriculum and discuss race in the college classroom. In November, a federal judge temporarily blocked the part of the law pertaining to higher education.

Faculty groups are ready to fight any proposal that would affect tenure at the university level, according to Pat Heintzelman, president of the Texas Faculty Association.

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