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Advisory committee approves behavioral‑health I&O weight, moves final report to staff for email sign‑off
Summary
The THECB Health‑Related Institutions Formula Advisory Committee voted to adopt a recommended behavioral‑health instruction & operations weight (2.075) after review of cost data; members also approved a final report for non‑substantive staff edits and agreed to complete final approval by email with edits due by the 14th.
The Health‑Related Institutions Formula Advisory Committee approved a recommended I&O (instruction and operations) formula weight for graduate behavioral‑health programs and agreed to finalize its draft report by email later this month.
Committee Chair Kristen Mace (Texas A&M Health Science Center) opened discussion of charge 2b — the work to set appropriate I&O formula weights for new specialty programs including behavioral health and optometry — and turned the item over to the work‑group lead for details. Melita of the coordinating staff reported that responses were received from institutions and that “the estimated cost would be 8,700,000.0.” The committee was told six health‑related institutions provided behavioral‑health hours used in the estimate.
Why it matters: I&O formula weights affect how state formula funding allocates per‑student or per‑hour amounts to institutions; raising a program’s weight shifts dollars toward institutions that offer that program. The committee framed the behavioral‑health recommendation as aligning the new specialty with recently…
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