The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopts new §5.51 concerning the publication of doctoral program data by public universities and health-related institutions without changes to the proposed text as published in the October 31, 2008, issue of the Texas Register (33 TexReg 8857). This new section will require public institutions with doctoral programs to publish on their web sites certain data relating to those doctoral programs, and to use that data as part of institutional evaluation and quality improvement procedures.

No comments were received regarding this new section.

The new section is adopted under the Texas Education Code, Chapter 61, Subchapter G, which provides the Coordinating Board with the authority to regulate the awarding or offering of degrees, credit toward degrees, and the use of certain terms.