Skip to main content

April, 2017

201720apr8:30 am3:00 pmBoard Meeting8:30 am - 3:00 pm Event Type:Quarterly Board Meetings

Event Details

Public Testimony

The presiding chair shall designate whether public testimony will be taken at the beginning of the meeting, at the time the related item is taken up by the Board after staff has presented the item, or any other time as determined by the presiding chair. For procedures on testifying please go to https://www.highered.texas.gov/public-testimony.

Agenda and Materials

Supplemental Materials

  • Agenda Item VI-B Consideration of adopting the Commissioner’s recommendation to the Board relating to the certification of Texas Research Incentive Program gift funds to the Emerging Research Universities
  • Agenda Item IX-L(4) Consideration of Adopting the Committee’s recommendation to the Board relating to the appointment of member(s) to the Workforce Education Course Manual Advisory Committee

Presentations

  • Agenda Item IV-A Introduction to Predictive Analytics – PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Tracey Armstrong, Director of Innovation, and Bill Abasolo, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  • Agenda Item IV-A Digital Transformation, Student Success, and Predictive Analytics – PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Ellen Wagner, Co-founder and Chief Research Officer, Predictive Analytics Reporting Framework; and Vice President of Research, Hobsons
  • Agenda Item IV-A Predictive Analytics in Action – PowerPoint presentation by Iris Palmer, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Policy Program, New America
  • Agenda Item IV-A Predictive Modeling – PowerPoint presentation by George González, Jr., Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, and Michelle Callaway, Lead Research Programmer Analyst, San Jacinto College
  • Agenda Item V-A Education Across Barriers – PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart, President, and Michele Fortunato, Chair of the Board of Regents, Amarillo College
  • Agenda Item VI-A Report on the 60x30TX.com Website – PowerPoint presentation by Kelly Carper Polden, Assistant Director of Communications, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  • Agenda Item VI-A Report on the Redesigned Higher Education Accountability System Website – PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Julie Eklund, Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Funding, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  • Agenda Item VII-D Financial Condition Report – PowerPoint presentation by Thomas Keaton, Director of Funding and Resource Planning, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Handouts

Reports

Time

(Thursday) 8:30 am - 3:00 pm

Location

THECB - Board Room

1200 E. Anderson Lane, Austin, TX

Notices

Gun Notice

Texas Penal Code Section 46.035(c) states: “A license holder commits an offense if the license holder intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries a handgun under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, regardless of whether the handgun is concealed or carried in a shoulder or belt holster, in the room or rooms where a meeting of a governmental entity is held and if the meeting is an open meeting subject to Chapter 551, Government Code, and the entity provided notice as required by that chapter.” Thus, no person can carry a handgun and enter the room or rooms where a meeting of the THECB is held if the meeting is an open meeting subject to Chapter 551, Government Code.

Please Note that this governmental meeting is, in the opinion of counsel representing THECB, an open meeting subject to Chapter 551, Government Code and THECB is providing notice of this meeting as required by Chapter 551. In addition, please note that the written communication required by Texas Penal Code Sections 30.06 and 30.07, prohibiting both concealed and open carry of handguns by Government Code Chapter 411 licensees, will be posted at the entrances to this governmental meeting

Return to top.
X