The 88th Regular Session ended on Memorial Day after a tumultuous ride for faculty interests. The three major governance reform bills, SB...

The Texas Legislative Session this coming January is going to be lively for higher education faculty and administrators - with tenure and...

by Chuck Hempstead, TACT Legislative Director Again the TACT Board met recently and again it tweaked the Legislative Agenda, which will...

See Sample Email at Bottom of Article TACT has identified four bills this legislative session that provide funds to higher education and...

by Chuck Hempstead, TACT Executive Director We’d like to say that the 87th Texas Legislative Session is off to the races, but, like so...

Senator Bryan Hughes of Texas District 1 met with TACT today to discuss TACT's legislative agenda and what Texas is facing during this...

By Chuck Hempstead TACT Executive Director I am hopeful that your favorite candidates survived their campaigns and that you voted for the...

By Chuck Hempstead TACT Executive Director Normally (are we tired of “The New Normal” yet?), we would be talking about the Interim...

The Texas House Speaker has released his list of issues to be reviewed by committees before the next regular session beginning in January...

by Gaines West, Attorney-at-Law, West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry TO REPORT OR NOT REPORT? DOING ONE OR THE OTHER MAY KEEP YOU OUT OF...

by Chuck Hempstead, Executive Director, TACT Overview With another session behind us, it’s time to review how Texas higher education...

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”...

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...

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

Adequate funding was the number one issue for the Texas Association of College Teachers (TACT). The initial legislative appropriations...