Rep. Dan Branch was the keynote speaker during the Opening Dinner for this year's A&M Chancellor's Summit on Education.

Rep. Branch participated in the Texas Tribune Festival as a member of a panel that discussed higher education and other current issues facing the Texas Legislature.

Rep. Branch was the keynote speaker for the September meeting of the Northwood Republican Women's Club.

Rep. Dan Branch (R-Dallas) served as the lunchtime keynote speaker at the 2011 Texas Municipal Bond Conference at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas.

September 26, 2011    

Michael King    

In Texas Tribune Festival sessions on public education and health care, the persistent subtext reflected that hard times made budgeting difficult. Official forecast? More of the same ...

Took in a few Texas Tribune Festival panels this weekend (didn't feel terribly festive, but you can't blame them for trying). The conference features four themes: Race & Immigration, Health & Human Services, Public & Higher Education, Energy & Environment, with panels held in venues on the UT-Austin campus, close enough to shuttle among or else camp out at your public policy obsession.

September 21, 2011    

Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education    

Corporate-style productivity strategies that fail to account for differences among academic disciplines and seek to churn out cheap degrees are "superficial and ill-suited to universities," the president of the Association of American Universities told Texas lawmakers here on Wednesday at the first public hearing of a new legislative oversight committee on higher education.

"They reduce the classroom to an assembly line, the library to a book repository, and the laboratory to a for-profit business," said Hunter R. Rawlings III, president of the association, a prestigious group of 61 top research universities in the United States and Canada.

September 21, 2011    

Ralph K.M. Haurwitz    

The president of the prestigious Association of American Universities offered some pithy advice Wednesday for improving higher education governance in Texas at the first hearing of a special House-Senate panel:

"Noses in, fingers out."

September 21, 2011    

Enrique Rangel    

AUSTIN — The co-chairman of a recently-created legislative committee on higher education and the president of the University of Texas said Wednesday they are relieved the Big 12 Conference is not breaking up after all.

“I hope we can maintain a strong conference in this part of the country,” said Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas.

September 21, 2011    

Katherine Mangan    

Corporate-style productivity strategies that fail to account for differences among academic disciplines and seek to churn out cheap degrees are "superficial and ill-suited to universities," the president of the Association of American Universities told Texas lawmakers here on Wednesday at the first public hearing of a new legislative oversight committee on higher education.

September 21, 2011    

Danny Guerra    

Today's inaugural hearing of the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency featured national experts weighing in on how — and how not — to make universities in Texas more accountable and transparent. But the gloves really came off during the public testimony.