College costs keep climbing while the value of a degree gets harder to defend, and the Foundation’s higher education reform work asks whether students and taxpayers are getting what they pay for. This is a national fight. The accreditation system, the ideological drift on campus, and the free speech problems that keep surfacing show up at universities everywhere, not just in Texas.
Our research covers college affordability, tenure reform, restoring civic education, and spending transparency at public universities, along with faster and cheaper paths to a real career. Texas has a chance to lead by building a system that rewards learning instead of prestige. Students deserve honesty about the cost and the payoff. Our latest higher education work is below.