Abbott bound for India to drum up business for Texas
Governor will visit four cities there, return March 30.
Gov. Greg Abbott will tout Texas’ business climate and “talented workforce” as he visits corporate executives during his upcoming trade mission to India, his office said Wednesday.
Abbott leaves Thursday and will return March 30. He’ll visit Mumbai, Bengaluru (also called Bangalore), fees in the form of a grant, scholarship or waiver — with the additional money going toward living expenses — while others receive less than 100 percent, said Meredith Goode, UT System academic policy director. But averaged among all of the recipients, the aid covered tuition and fees.
“They obviously didn’t put all of the qualifying small print into the presentation,” said Joey Williams, a UT-Austin spokesman, adding that it conveyed the impression of a tuition promise. “We Agra and New Delhi.
“Nowhere else in the U.S. will you find a better business environment or a more talented workforce than Texas,” Abbott said in a written statement. “I look forward to bringing more jobs and investment to our state, and continuing to build upon Texas’ already strong economic and cultural relationship with India.”
Last year, Texas ranked second among U.S. states in exports to India. It shipped oil, petrochemicals, civilian aircraft engines and other goods valued at nearly $3.8 don’t have a tuition promise that matches any income currently,” he said. billion to India, according to the Texas Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization spearheaded by the governor that solicits and uses corporate donations to promote business in Texas.
Texas imports a like amount of products from India, including foodstuffs, crustaceans and jewelry.
It will be Abbott’s fourth foreign trip to recruit businesses. Previously, he went to Cuba, Mexico and, in a two-country swing, Switzerland and Israel.
Like those earlier trips, it
Similarly, the “average student” is what the chart refers to where it appears to indicate will be paid for by TexasOne, a marketing group funded by corporations, councils of government and chambers of commerce. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will serve as acting governor in Abbott’s absence. that the system’s seven other academic campuses cover at least 100 percent of tuition and fees for students whose families earn $60,000 or less.
Officials noted that only full-time students who applied for and received financial aid are included in the calculations; some students who would otherwise qualify for aid might not have applied for it. In addition, the data are from the 2015-16 academic year, the most recent available to the UT System for all eight of its academic campuses.
UT-Austin, citing 2016-17 data, told the Statesman that scholarships and grants cov- ered 100 percent of tuition and fees for more than 60 percent of undergraduate students from Texas who filed the federal student aid application and whose families had adjusted gross incomes of $80,000 or less.