Border Higher Ed Gains Began With a Lawsuit
It began with a lawsuit by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in 1987. The Texas border area, including the area from Brownsville to Corpus Christi to San Antonio to El Paso, with 20 percent of Texas population, has improved from 11 percent of Texas higher education revenues in 1993 to 18 percent in 2013, and remains at 18 percent today. The area has …