Ahead of the fall 2025 semester at universities across the state, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) has issued a letter to college presidents requesting the identification of students “who are not lawfully present” after a federal judge struck down the Texas Dream Act.
In the letter to the university presidents, Commissioner of Higher Education Wynn Rosser includes the explicit directive that “each institution must assess the population of students who have established eligibility for Texas resident tuition … who are not lawfully present and will therefore need to be reclassified as non-residents and charged non-resident tuition for the fall 2025 semester.”
