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- The 2013 Great Teaching Round-Up Reading List!
- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board survives Sunset Review.
- SB 497 places a cap on the number of semester hours required for an associates degree.
- Appropriations bill contains a broad outline for outcomes-based funding o be phased in over several years.
- Guns on Campus Bills:
- SB 1458: "TRS Bill" will head to the governor for signature or veto.
- SB 1812: "50-50 Bill" passed both chambers in the waning days of the Regular Session.
- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board launches a Web site to compare higher education institutions by criteria.
- The evolution of teacher-student relationship and social media.
- HB 3498 requires universities to place class averages on student transcripts beside the letter grade for each course.
- The Senate has passed SB 1458: Designed to shore up the massive Texas Teacher Retirement fund.
- HB 2668 would require online streaming for board meetings in large community college districts.
- Confusion stalls/ends student success.
- Public community college graduates earn more than high school and for-profit associates degree graduates.
- Texas Association of Community Colleges' latest outline for outcomes-based funding.
- Complete College America issues report on developmental and "gateway" courses.
- Community colleges are finding the new pedagogies more and more attractive.
- Save the date and make your reservation for the 2014 Convention in San Antonio!
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