THECB 101
What is the Texas
Higher Education
Coordinating
Board and how
does it work?
April 16, 2014
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Session Purpose
A comprehensive overview of the mission,
purpose and authority of the THECB.
Learning Outcomes:
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Articulate the role, purpose, and authority of the THECB
Identify the major divisions of the THECB
Access and navigate the THECB website
Utilize various tools and resources available from the
THECB
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THECB History
•  Texas Commission on Higher Education, 1953, Governor
Allan Shivers
•  Created in 1965, Governor John Connally
•  Founded as the “Coordinating Board, Texas College and
University System”
•  Texas Charter for Public Higher Education adopted by the
70th Legislature
•  Renamed “Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board”
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THECB History
“To make education of this extent and quality
possible, we must husband every one of our
resources. Nothing can be wasted in the realms
of money, personnel, time, or buildings and
equipment. No one institution could handle such
a job alone. What we must demand and get is an
outstanding, well coordinated, mutually
reinforcing system of higher education,
composed of relatively independent State
colleges and universities.”
Address of
GOVERNOR ALLAN SHIVERS
To Texas Commission on Higher Education
Senate Chamber, Austin, Texas
Wednesday, September 23, 1953
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THECB History
“For the first time, junior colleges under your direction
become full partners in our total higher educational
endeavor, and I urge you never to forget that the best
classroom instruction may well exist in these
institutions. They are unfettered by elaborate
administrative structures, extensive research
commitments, and faculty promotions dependent upon
scholarly publications, the junior college instructor can
devote his full energy and enthusiasm to teaching the
student. He can demonstrate a personal interest. In
short, he is certainly the equal of his fellow faculty
members in four- year institutions and should be treated
as such.”
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CHARGE TO THE
COORDINATING
BOARD TEXAS
COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
By
GOVERNOR JOHN
CONNALLY
September 20, 1965
THECB Mission
“…to work with the Legislature,
Governor, governing boards,
•  Dramatically increase the number
of postsecondary completions;
higher education institutions
and other entities to help Texas
•  Keep college affordable and
accessible for all Texans; and
meet the goals of the state's
higher education plan, Closing
the Gaps by 2015, and thereby
•  Align higher education outcomes
with current and future workforce
needs.
provide the people of Texas the
widest access to higher
education of the highest quality
in the most efficient manner.”
Mission Statement
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THECB Purposes
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's responsibilities fall into three
major areas:
Coordination
•  Develops long-term higher education plan
•  Reviews and approves academic and technical degree programs offered by public
institutions of higher education
Information
Provides data and information on higher education to state policy makers and citizens
Administration
Administers state and federal programs such as:
•  Hinson-Hazlewood College Student Loan Program
•  Graduate Medical Education Grant Programs
•  Carl D. Perkins Technical Vocational Funds
Compact with Texans
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Mission Critical:
Closing the Gaps 2015
Closing the Gaps 2015
•  Adopted in 2000
•  Four goals related to closing the gaps in Texas
as well as between Texas and other states:
•  Student Participation
•  Student Success
•  Excellence
•  Research
•  Strategies for addressing the goals
•  Annual performance measurement
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THECB is not SACSCOC
THECB
SACSCOC
State agency
Regional accrediting body
An extension of Texas Government
“Voluntarily” membership
Implements laws for public higher
education institutions
Implements accreditation standards
for members – private and public
Texas Education Code & Texas
Administrative Code forms basis of
work
“Standards of Accreditation” forms
basis of work
State reporting/funding
10-year site-visit/5th year interim report
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THECB Structure
•  6-years terms
•  No member may be employed in
education
•  Cannot be a college or university
trustee or regent
SLIDE 10
Organizational Structure
Dr. Rex Peebles
Susan Brown
Commissioner
Dr. Raymund
Paredes
Dr. David Garner
THECB Staff and Organization
Dr. Judith Laredo
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Organizational Structure
Dr. Rex Peebles
Dr. Garry Tomerlin
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THECB Academic Affairs
Advisory Committees
THECB Advisory Committee
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Academic & Workforce
Oversight
•  Lower Division Academic
•  Guidelines for Instructional
Course Guide Manual
Programs in Workforce
•  Texas Core Curriculum
•  Dual Credit
Education (GIPWE)
•  Workforce Education Course
•  Course & Degree Program
Inventory
Manual (WECM)
•  Program Accountability
•  Field of Study
•  Low Producing Programs
•  Texas Tuning Project
•  Carl D. Perkins Career &
•  Course Redesign Project
Technical Education
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P-16 Oversight
•  Texas Success Initiative (Developmental
Education)
•  College & Career Readiness Standards
•  Student Success Initiatives
•  AVID Postsecondary Project
•  Adult Education Transition Programs
SLIDE 15
THECB Rules & Policies
•  Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination
•  Common Calendar
•  Transfer Policies
•  Civil Rights Compliance
SLIDE 16
Practical Matters:
THECB Website Tools &
Resources
THECB Home Page:
•  Workforce, Academic
Affairs and Research
•  P-16 Initiatives
•  Texas Higher Education
Data
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Dr. Lee Ann Nutt
Vice President of Instruction
Lone Star College-Tomball
281-351-3378
LeeAnn.Nutt@Lonestar.edu
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