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7 Document(s) [ Subject: Texas State Technical College ]
| Committee: | Senate Higher Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Associate's degrees | Community college students | Developmental education | Distance education | Educational technology | Graduate-on-time programs | Higher education | Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas | Immunizations | Math education | Meningitis | Nontraditional students | P-16 councils | Persons with disabilities | Student aid | Texas B-on-Time loans | Texas State Technical College | Toward EXcellence, Access & Success Grant Program | Undocumented immigrant students | University graduation rates | University student transfers | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.82 Ed83h | |
| Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
| Online version: | View report [72 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and make recommendations regarding more cost-effective funding of financial aid, including ways to restructure financial aid programs to incentivize student success, particularly among low-income students, and the efficacy of current exemptions and waivers offered to students at institutions of higher education, including in-state tuition for undocumented students. Examine student loan debt, state and federal loan forgiveness programs, and institutional default rates. | |
| 2. | Study and make recommendations regarding more effective means of using technology, including the effectiveness of online learning and online coursework for underprepared students. Examine the cost and funding of online education. Examine how electronic coursework and technology impacts students with disabilities, and make recommendations to ensure all students have access to electronic materials and courses. Review and make recommendations concerning statewide or inter-system cooperation for blended and online learning. | |
| 3. | Study developmental education programs in public higher education institutions. Include a demographic analysis of students who require developmental education, and identify alternative means of assessing the need for developmental education, the effectiveness of delivery of developmental education programs, and the role of P-16 councils in addressing solutions for better preparing students for higher education. Review alternative means of offering and financing developmental education courses and identify potential cost savings. | |
| 4. | Examine the existing transfer systems and the potential development of a 2+2 transfer system between public junior colleges and universities. Examine the transfer of credit between degree-granting private sector colleges, public junior colleges, and public universities. Examine the impact of national, regional, and professional accrediting associations on course credit transfer. | |
| 5. | Study and make recommendations regarding academic and non-academic barriers to non-traditional students, including students with disabilities. Focus on ways to restructure course and program delivery, student support services, financial barriers, and remediation and academic advising. Study and make recommendations to reduce time-to-degree, incentivize on-time graduation, and increase graduation rates to meet the goals of Closing the Gaps by 2015 and beyond. | |
| 6. | Consistent with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's legislative directive to work with the Texas State Technical College System (TSTC) and other appropriate state agencies to develop a returned value funding model for TSTC, examine the benefits and challenges such an approach will have on technical education in Texas. | |
| 7. | Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Higher Education, 82nd Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance and/or complete implementation. Specifically, monitor the following:
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| Committee: | House General Investigating | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on General Investigating, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2003 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Crime laboratories | Houston Police Department | Special taxing districts | Texas State Technical College | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.78 G286 | |
| Session: | 78th R.S. (2003) | |
| Online version: | View report [19 pages File size: 958 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Continue investigation into the Houston Police Department Crime Lab, and other crime labs as necessary. | |
| 2. | Continue review of the creation of special purpose districts and their use of tax dollars. | |
| 3. | Investigate use of funds at Texas State Technical College. | |
| Committee: | House Higher Education | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Committee on Higher Education, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | College preparedness | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Lamar Institute of Technology | Northeast Texas Community College | Stephen F. Austin State University | Texas A&M University - Commerce | Texas A&M University - Texarkana | Texas Academic Skills Program | Texas Southern University | Texas State Technical College | Texas State University | Tuition | University budgets | University finance | University of Houston | University of North Texas at Denton | University of Texas at Arlington | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.74 ed84 | |
| Session: | 74th R.S. (1995) | |
| Online version: | View report [28 pages File size: 844 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review the role of the Texas Legislature, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the university systems in making changes in the governance structure of universities and implementing academic/research programs. Study the organization of the state's general academic teaching institutions and university systems. Assess the merits of the current governance structures and review advantages and disadvantages of suggested changes, including the consolidation, abolition or realignment of existing systems, or the creation of new systems. | |
| 2. | Review fees at Texas public institutions of higher education that may be administratively changed, without the approval of a majority student vote. | |
| 3. | Evaluate the effectiveness of the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) and its impact on students, including the educational impact and the cost effectiveness of the program from the points of view of both the students and the institutions. | |
| 4. | Review the training provided in evolving high-technology fields by the Texas State Technical College and the state's community colleges and the coordination between academic and technical subjects within community colleges. | |
| 5. | Conduct active oversight of agencies and institutions under the committee's jurisdiction, including, in particular, those institutions found by the State Auditor to be having management or financial difficulties.. | |
| Committee: | House Higher Education | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Committee on Higher Education, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1992 : a report to the House of Representatives, 73rd Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Grants | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Medical education | Nursing shortages | Physicians | Scholarships | Student aid | Student loans | Texas State Technical College | Tuition | University finance | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.72 ed84h | |
| Session: | 72nd R.S. (1991) | |
| Online version: | View report [34 pages File size: 892 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor and oversee legislation enacted during the 72nd Regular and Special Called Sessions that was considered by the Higher Education Committee; Performance Audit Review Recommendations; and any agency-initiated changes. | |
| 2. | Carry out budget and oversight responsibilities for all agencies, boards, and commissions listed in Rule 3, Section 15. A. Monitor and oversee documenation of salary increases. B. Verify the number and status of outcomes and outputs as identified in the Appropriations Bill (HB 1, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session). C. Review agencies' existing performance standards and determine whether new standards are needed. | |
| 3. | Study the levels of tuition and fees at institutions of higher education across the state and the causes and effects of their increase in recent years. Monitor and coordinate with the Joint Committee on Higher Education as it pertains to this subject. | |
| 4. | Study the increasing need for student financial aid in the forms of grants and loans. | |
| 5. | Identify the role, mission, and benefits of Texas State Technical College (TSTC) including its role of meeting the educational needs of the area it serves, future funding, and conflicts with junior colleges. | |
| 6. | Monitor and coordinate with the Joint Committee on Higher Education as it relates to formula funding and deferred maintenance at institutions of higher education. | |
| 7. | Study the enrollment at professional schools to determine supply, as it relates to the demand for all appropriate professions. | |
| Committee: | Senate Texas State Technical Institute | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Senate Committee to Study the Need for Capital Equipment and New Construction on the Campuses of Texas State Technical Institute. | |
| Subjects: | Texas State Technical College | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.71 t313 | |
| Session: | 71st R.S. (1989) | |
| Online version: | View report [58 pages File size: 2,666 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | To examine potential sources of dedicated funding to support construction, improvements, and the acquisition of capital equipment among the campuses and extension centers of the Texas State Technical Institute. | |
| Committee: | House Higher Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 66th Legislature : report of the / Committee on Higher Education of the House of Representatives. | |
| Subjects: | Community college budgets | Community colleges | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Property taxes | Student aid | Student housing | Texas State Technical College | Tuition | Tuition Equalization Grants | University buildings | University finance | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.65 ed83h | |
| Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
| Online version: | View report [49 pages File size: 1,711 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Oversight responsibility of agency expenditures and related transactions. This function shall encompass a review and monitoring of all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 65th Regular Session of the Legislature. | |
| 2. | Study of alternative means of aiding citizens of the State in obtaining a college education. This study should review possible alternatives to the Tuition Equalization Grant program, including voucher systems and offset grant programs and should include a review of the cost implications and educational significance thereof. | |
| 3. | A review of the financial necessity for and ramifications of allowing ad valorem tax funds available for higher education to be used for maintenance and renovation purposes as well as for new construction. | |
| 4. | A review of alternative methods for the funding of junior colleges in Texas, including recommendations for developing a long range plan for junior college financing. | |
| 5. | A study of the tuition policy of state institutions of higher education with regard to the realistic costs of education as compared to actual percentage paid as tuition. This study should include recommendations as to tuition paid not only by in-state students but by out-of-state and foreign students as well. | |
| 6. | A study of the desirability of terminating mandatory dormitory residency requirements for certain students of state institutions of higher education. | |
| 7. | Study the need to clarify the legal status of the Texas State Technical Institute. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Higher Education | |
| Title: | Correspondence, Letter to Members of House Higher Education Committee from Judith Kay Wilson, February 22, 1977 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1801.9 Ed84h 65 | |
| Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
| Online version: | View document [14 pages] | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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