Professor Elam

In business classes we attempt to assess real or projected costs to projects. Educators do the same thing.  Here is an article from the Houston Chronicle 
deploring the Higher Ed  tuition increase in Texas. I will show you the UT response in class today. In addition we will look at the actual report of the Higher Coord Board CB though I am at a loss to find the numbers the Chronicle alludes to amid all the stats on the CB page.

But this is not the point. What is the real cost increase of attending UT Austin?  Earlier this week I read a plea from the UT President that the School was horribly underfunded as to research. We are studying communications, what is the truth?  What will be your reaction to the Chronicle story and then the UT response, which the Chronicle refused to run?  All of us grapple with the  famous dictum that  figures don't lie but liars….well you know.  And we all face some degree of disbelief when we parade numbers. What then can we learn about presenting our facts from two of the largest and most influential sources in Texas, the Chronicle and UT itself.

As Fox Says, we report you decide.