Finney and Perna: Texas higher ed must set priorities

April 24, 2012 - Joni Finney and Laura Perna released a report on the Texas higher education system, the fourth of five reports in their State Review Project.

"Hard Choices Ahead: Performance and Policy in Texas Higher Education" says that Texas will be forced to put the state's economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for higher education and develop a plan to pay for them.

"The future of economic and social mobility in Texas depends on the difficult choices that lie ahead for education," Perna and Finney write. "Are Texas's state leaders prepared to make them?"

Read the full report, here.