Texas lawmakers should reshape how Texas funds public universities by giving them more money when students make progress toward degrees and graduate, the state’s higher education agency recommended Wednesday.
That recommendation came during the same meeting at which Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board officials reduced similar incentives in existing outcomes-based funding for community colleges, which outperformed what lawmakers had budgeted.
The recommendation calls for financing the new incentives primarily with additional state funding but did not recommend a specific amount. Such incentive payouts would supplement, rather than replace, universities’ existing enrollment-based funding…