** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Finance
Senate Finance Sub. on Higher Education
TIME & DATE:
9:00 AM, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
PLACE:
E1.036 (Finance Room)
CHAIR:
Senator Judith Zaffirini
The Senate Finance Higher Education Subcommittee will meet at 9 AM in
E1.036.  The committee will address the following interim charge:
 
Review and make recommendations regarding the structure and organization
of higher education, focusing on funding of the current higher education
system, including financing capital projects for general academic
institutions and for health-related institutions and changes to funding
flagship research universities such as The University of Texas at Austin
and Texas A&M at College Station.  Determine the adequacy of formula
funding to support basic functions as well as supporting critical
statewide needs and improvements on the various methods of funding
research.  Reviews should include institutional structures that maximize
efficiencies and incentive structures that increase the number of
graduates.  A review of funding formulas should also include the
application of proportionality of state contributions for higher education
employee health benefits.
 
**Public testimony will be limited to three minutes.
 
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **