The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (Coordinating Board) adopts an amendment to §5.48, concerning Approval of New Academic Programs and Administrative Changes at Public Universities, Health-Related Institutions, and/or Selected Public Colleges, without changes to the proposed text as published in the August 7, 2009, issue of the Texas Register (34 TexReg 5283). Specifically, the amendment clarifies the terminology used in the section regarding lower-division career/technical and workforce education certificate programs. The amendment changes the term "workforce" to the more current "career technical/workforce," which is the terminology used in the proposed amendments to Chapter 9, Program Development in Public Two-Year Colleges.

No comments were received regarding the amendment.

The amendment is adopted under the Texas Education Code, §61.051(f), which gives the Coordinating Board the authority to encourage and develop new certificate programs in technical and vocational education in Texas public technical institutes and public community colleges.