Any new member who joins TACT in August will get 3 months free membership! TACT's membership year is Nov. 1 through Oct. 31. New...

SB 25, the 'transfer credit' bill doesn't solve all the issues with students transferring credit between higher education institutions. ...

Two weeks are left in the Texas Legislative Session.  School finance – a.k.a., paying for it – has become the defacto “blocker bill”...

Supported by Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes, Senate Bill 25 passed the Senate this week. The goal of the bill is to...

Guns on Campus Bill Update As reported previously, HB 1236 allows public universities to opt out of the guns on campus legislation passed...

Texas Legislature Picking Up Steam Big Day at the Texas Legislature Wednesday…….The House adopted its version of public school finance...

A Win for Free Speech on Campus With a unanimous vote from the Texas Senate, SB 18 prohibits Texas universities and colleges from banning...

Hazlewood Cost for 2018 at $237 Million The Hazelwood Act provides free Texas tuition to Texas veterans and their families. Every good...

Guns on Campus - New Bill Filed Rep. Vikki Goodwin, D-Austin, filed HB 1236 which would permit public institutions to opt out of the...

Free Speech Defended on Campuses State Senators Joan Huffman, R-Houston, and Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, authored Senate Bill 18 that...

Study: Repeal of in-state tuition for undocumented students could cost Texas $400 million annually A research and advocacy organization...

Executive Director's Column: Legislature Focusing on 60X30TX by Chuck Hempstead, Executive Director, TACT Here We Go Again! When the...

President's Column: Final Letter by Donna Cox, Professor Emeritus, Sam Houston State University As I contemplate my last “Message from...

Can Post-Tenure Review Masquerade as Age Discrimination? by Gaines West, Attorney-at-Law West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry This time of...

Higher Education Coordinating Board Commissioner Paredes Resigns this August Commissioner Raymund Paredes is resigning from the Texas...

New Chairs in Both the House and the Senate For the first time in memory, the Senate House and Senate Higher Education Committees both...

Tuition Freeze Looming Rep. Mary González, D- El Paso, filed a bill last week which would cap tuition at current levels until the Texas...

TACT Legislative Day - February 15 FREE Event....RSVP Needed Funding...Funding...Funding. There's not much talk around the Capitol yet...

TACT Website Just in time for the 86th Texas Legislative Session (which begins tomorrow), TACT has launched a new, easy-to-navigate...

LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - The following is a news release from Texas Tech University: In the revised 2018 edition of the Carnegie...