Texas universities propose two-year tuition freeze in exchange for nearly $1 billion in additional state funding

Students walk around the Texas A&M University campus in College Station. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)

As Texas lawmakers consider what to do with an unprecedented $32.7 billion state surplus, leaders of the state’s six largest public university systems are pitching that nearly $1 billion be allocated toward higher education.

If lawmakers agree, these university chancellors pledge to hold tuition flat for all undergraduate students for the next two academic years.