budget cuts

The Institute of International Education stated that Texas universities enroll the third-highest number of foreign students in the country. However, international student enrollment is down 5 percent at UHCL since the college became a…

After the $4.98 million-dollar budget cut for 2016-2017, UHCL adjusts program availability in hopes to increase student enrollment for the future.

Far-reaching changes in the Texas state budget have taken place since the deregulation of funding for higher education, leaving many students and parents with the burden associated with ever-rising tuition costs.

UHCL President William Staples addressed faculty and staff about budget cuts, downward expansion, and campus accomplishments Sept. 26.

Since tuition in the State of Texas was deregulated in 2003, tuition and fees for undergraduates at the University of Houston-Clear Lake have increased 65 percent. For graduate and professional programs it has gone up even higher.

Reeling from budget restraints, the UHCL Alfred R. Neumann Library discontinued printing services for students this semester in efforts to reserve other academic resources provided by the library to support student success.

Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Speaker of the House Joe Straus informed Texas public universities to plan on another budget reduction for the 2011 fiscal year.

The economic woes of today’s society have not bounced back from the Great Recession that began in December 2007 and officially ended June 2009.

Thousands of students, faculty and staff members walked out of classes, picketed, marched and protested against declining state support and increasing costs of education March 4 in a Day of Action to Defend Public Education.

University administrators are developing a plan in response to a letter received last month from state officials requesting all state agencies reduce their budgets 5 percent for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.