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.