CHAPTER 76. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
EDUCATION CODE
TITLE 3. HIGHER EDUCATION
SUBTITLE C. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 76. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
Sec. 76.01. ESTABLISHMENT. The University of Texas at Tyler is
a coeducational institution of higher education within The
University of Texas System. It is under the control and
management of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas
System.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979.
Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) The institution shall offer
undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which are
subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board.
(b) The institution may not offer a lower division course off
the campus of the institution until the fall semester of 2001.
(c) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approves an
engineering degree program at the institution, the institution
may offer lower division courses relating to that program. The
enrollment limits provided by Section 76.026 do not apply to that
program.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 470, Sec. 1,
eff. June 10, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 313, Sec. 1, eff.
Sept. 1, 1997.
Sec. 76.025. UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS. (a) The institution may
not adopt or use an open enrollment policy.
(b) The board shall adopt admission standards for the
institution for first-time freshman students that are at least as
stringent as the 1997 fall semester admission standards for
first-time freshman students at The University of Texas at
Arlington.
(c) Expired.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 313, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1,
1997.
Sec. 76.03. PRESIDENT. The board may appoint and remove the
president, any faculty member, or other officer or employee of
the institution. The president is the executive officer of the
institution and is responsible for its general management. The
president shall recommend a plan of organization and orderly
course development for the institution.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979.
Sec. 76.04. SUITS; VENUE; CITATION. The board may sue and be
sued in the name of the institution. Venue is in Smith or Travis
County. The institution may be impleaded by service of citation
on its president, and legislative consent to suits against the
institution is granted.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979.
Sec. 76.05. GIFTS AND GRANTS. (a) The board may accept
donations, gifts, and endowments for the institution. They are to
be held in trust and administered by the board according to the
purposes, directions, limitations, and provisions declared in
writing in the donation, gift, or endowment. The provisions of
the donation, gift, or endowment shall be followed to the extent
that they are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or
with the objective and proper management of the institution.
(b) The board shall solicit and may accept donations, gifts, and
endowments from private sources to provide equipment and other
personal property for the engineering degree program, if one is
established. The board shall establish an account for the deposit
of money accepted under this subsection. Money in the account may
be used only to provide and maintain equipment and other personal
property used by the engineering degree program.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 470, Sec. 2,
eff. June 10, 1995.
Sec. 76.06. MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY. The board is vested with
the exclusive management of all property owned by the
institution. The board may make any agreements necessary to the
effective management of the institution's property. All money
received shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit
of a special fund that may be invested and the principal and
income of the fund may be expended on appropriation by the
legislature for the administration of the institution.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 699, ch. 303, Sec. 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1979.
Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and
expand partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by
Subchapter N, Chapter 51. With the approval of the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board, the institution may enter into a
partnership agreement with a private institution of higher
education located in the same county as any campus of the
institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by
Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an
institution covered by that section and a public junior college.
(b) In developing programs and courses subject to a partnership
agreement, the institution and any other party to an agreement
shall take into account the need in the service region to recruit
minority and lower-income students into degree-granting programs
of institutions of higher education.
(c) A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled in the
institution and another public institution of higher education
under a program offered jointly by the two institutions under a
partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges required
of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided by
Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of
Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in
which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
(d) The institution and other parties to a partnership agreement
may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus service or
other transportation service for or among the campuses of the
institutions that are parties to the agreement and may charge and
collect a fee from students registered in courses at the campuses
of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or term
in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
part of the costs of that service.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 470, Sec. 3, eff. June 10,
1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 313, Sec. 3, eff.
Sept. 1, 1997.