Higher Education in Texas: Its Beginnings to 1970

Published: February, 2018  Pages: 368  Features: 20 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Higher Education in Texas is the first book to tell the history, defining events, and critical participants in the development of higher education in Texas from approximately 1838 to 1970. Charles Matthews, Chancellor Emeritus of the Texas State University System, begins the story with the land grant policies of the Spanish, Mexicans, Republic of Texas, and the State of Texas that led to the growth of Texas. Religious organizations supplied the first of many colleges, years before the Texas Legislature began to fund and support public colleges and universities. more... about Higher Education in Texas: Its Beginnings to 1970