AUSTIN — Texas universities are at a critical juncture, the state’s top higher education official said Tuesday, as he pleaded with state senators to save financial aid programs and other funding for cash-strapped colleges.
“We have to invest in the young people that are coming through the pipeline,” Higher Education Coordinating Board Commissioner Raymund Paredes told the Senate Finance Committee. “They are largely poor, largely first generation, largely of color. They will drive the economy of Texas.”
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