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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Jessica Priest

Texas State System dissolves faculty senates, eroding professors' influence on campuses

Texas State University campus in San Marcos in 2018.
The Texas State University System on Thursday did not authorize any of its schools' existing faculty senates to continue operating. The advisory bodies will lapse when a new state law seeking to curtail faculty's influence goes into effect on Sept. 1. (Credit: Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune)

Professors across the Texas State University System are about to lose their formal voice in campus decision-making — at least temporarily.

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