Blinn College trustees are updated on new state laws

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting.On the eve of the new academic year starting at Blinn College, board of trustees members are given an update on the impact of new state laws and procedures.Executive vice chancellor Leighton Schubert said during the August regular meeting of the trustees that almost all fulltime faculty members who have taught remotely are required to return to campus. And locations have been found for an undisclosed number of returning faculty members.Schubert also brought up rules by the Texas coordinating board of higher education that reduces the amount of state money going to Blinn and the remaining 49 community colleges.Chancellor Mary Hensley, who described state funding of community colleges as a "revolving number", said that has resulted in being "extremely conservative" with Blinn's finances.Schubert also says Blinn administrators have also been working on complying with the new state law where trustees for the first time controls the activity of what used to be an independent faculty senate.