Other states offer lessons, warnings about budget cuts for Texas higher education

 As Texas public universities face crushing budget scenarios, they find lessons — and warnings — from other states where such cuts already have pummeled higher education. Few states have escaped unscathed, but experts point to a handful of institutions that have used constricted budgets to transform the way they operate. Such changes involve revamping funding structures, prioritizing programs and pushing degree completion. They warn against stopgaps and going the way of California, which instituted tuition increases and enrollment caps that may leave lasting impacts on academic quality.

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