Texas Senate Bill 174: Improving transparency in higher education.

Policy development is a value-laden process that moves a policy from the \"idea\" stage to the implementation stage and ultimately to a point where the policy can be assessed (Fowler, 2009). In 2009, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 174. This bill requires all public higher education institutions (HEIs) in Texas to publically post fi nancial information (Young, 2009a). The bill was lauded as a solution to rising college costs because it required HEIs to provide certain fi nancial information to legislators and to the public through online institutional resumes (Young, 2009). The purpose of this paper is to provide an indepth analysis of the development of SB 174. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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