AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education will host a panel entitled, “Administrative Bloat: Enemy of the $10,000 Degree,” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Wednesday, January 8, at 2:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol.

“Recent studies argue that administrative bloat has played a major role in hiking university budgets. Policymakers need to address this issue in order to reverse decades of skyrocketing tuitions,” said the Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Director Dr. Thomas Lindsay.

Panelists include:

  • Dr. Thomas Lindsay (TPPF moderator) is a former deputy chairman and chief operating officer of the National Endowment for the Humanities and has more than two decades of experience in higher education management and instruction. 
  • Dr. Raymund Paredes is the Commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. 
  • Representative Jim Murphy is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. 
  • Dr. Ron Trowbridge serves as a Trustee for the Lone Star College System.

For twelve years, the Foundation’s Policy Orientation has been one of the nation’s top policy conferences, selling out each year while bringing together lawmakers, policy experts, and engaged citizens from across the political spectrum to discuss critical issues facing the Lone Star State and America. Last year’s Policy Orientation attracted approximately 1,100 attendees including 100 state legislators and hundreds of legislative staff from both sides of the aisle. 

This year’s program includes more than 25 panel discussions and debates on the major issues affecting Texas’ future.  The program will be updated with additional events and speakers in the coming weeks. Members of the public and media who wish to attend may register and view the agenda here: http://bit.ly/TVGJeN.

 

Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is a former deputy chairman and chief operating officer of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has more than two decades of experience in higher education management and instruction.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin. 

 

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