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Coordinating Board urges portability, predictability for student aid; recommends $364.3 million to cover 70% of eligible students
Summary
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board told the House Article III subcommittee that its strategic plan focuses on attainment, credential quality and research, and it requested about $364.3 million to make major need‑based financial aid programs cover roughly 70% of eligible students and to improve portability for transfers.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and its new leadership told lawmakers that the agency’s strategic priorities center on raising postsecondary attainment, ensuring credentials of value, and strengthening research infrastructure — and that these goals must be matched with predictable, portable financial aid.
“First, to increase post secondary attainment to 60% for Texans aged 25 to 64,” Commissioner Wynn Rosser told the subcommittee. “Today only about 48 percent of working age Texans have certificates or degrees beyond high school.”
Why it matters: the Coordinating Board is the state agency that supplies the data and programmatic guidance used to calculate formulas and financial aid. Agency leaders and the…
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