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Focuses on Texas Governor George W. Bush and his mixed record on higher education in Texas. His support for the ten percent law, which allows the top ten percent of high school students to be admitted into state colleges; Civil rights debates about college education in Texas; Budget battles; Impact of his stance on higher education on his presidential campaign.

Deals with the approval of a plan for an increase in the number of students for colleges by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Percentage of increase by 2015; Coverage of the plan; Proposals by the board to achieve the goal of the plan; Details on the plan to increase federal aid to research.

Presents brief articles pertaining to higher education in the United States. End of the University of Texas at Austin's program aimed at recruiting minority professors; Federal tax credits for students; Report that the University of Missouri at St. Louis may bar the Ku Klux Klan from sponsoring programs on the university's public radio.

Reports on a variety of stories from across the United States related to higher education. The chancellor of the University of Texas System deciding not to finance a political-action committee; None of the black applicants to the University of California at San Diego's School of Medicine being accepted; The Idaho State Board of Education denying a grant for a project on gay history; A growth of college-savings plans among middle-income families.