The Houston Chronicle reports:
One by one, representatives of the state’s universities were called before a Senate subcommittee Wednesday to explain why they have raised tuition 50 percent or more during the past five years.
“It was done after much anguish,” said Welcome Wilson Sr., chairman of the University of Houston’s board of regents, of the decision earlier this month to increase tuition by almost 6 percent.
Senators weren’t moved, suggesting legislators have grown weary of ever-rising costs in the years since they gave regents the power to set tuition and raising the question of another way to pay for higher education. . .
