EDUCATION CODE
CHAPTER 70. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
§ 70.01. UNIVERSITY AUTHORIZED. The Board of Regents of
The University of Texas System shall establish and maintain a
state-supported general academic institution of higher education
to be known as The University of Texas at Dallas.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3164, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971.
§ 70.02. LOCATION. The board shall locate The
University of Texas at Dallas on a site, to be selected in Dallas
County, consisting of not less than 250 acres of land that shall be
donated for that purpose without cost to the State of Texas. The
site may extend into any county adjacent to Dallas County.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3164, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971.
§ 70.03. COURSES AND DEGREES. (a) The board may
prescribe courses leading to customary degrees offered at leading
American universities and may award those degrees. It is the intent
of the legislature that those degrees include bachelor's, master's,
and doctor's degrees, and their equivalents.
(b) No department, school, or degree program shall be
instituted except with the prior approval of the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and University System, or its successor.
(c) Initial programs and departments shall be limited to
those which existed in the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies on
September 1, 1969. Approval of these programs, their expansion,
and initiation of other programs shall be recommended by the board
of regents and approved by the coordinating board.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3164, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971.
§ 70.04. RULES AND REGULATIONS; JOINT
APPOINTMENTS. The board may adopt other rules and regulations for
the operation, control, and management of the university that are
necessary for the conduct of the university as one of the first
class. The board is specifically authorized to make joint
appointments in the university and in other institutions under its
governance. The salary of any person who receives a joint
appointment shall be apportioned to the appointing institutions on
the basis of services rendered.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3164, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971.
§ 70.05. PROGRAMS AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES. It is the
intent of the legislature that existing programs leading to
undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of North
Texas, Texas Woman's University, East Texas State University, and
The University of Texas at Arlington shall never be placed at a
disadvantage, curtailed, or restricted from orderly and proper
expansion for any cause attributable to the establishment of, or
the curricular objectives for, The University of Texas at Dallas;
and that these universities shall not, as a result of the
establishment of The University of Texas at Dallas, be handicapped
in realizing their full potentials in quantity or quality for
developing additional undergraduate and graduate programs which
may from time to time be authorized by the coordinating board.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3165, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971. Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 1070, § 6, eff. May
15, 1988.
§ 70.07. GRANTS AND GIFTS. The board may accept and
administer, on terms and conditions satisfactory to it, grants or
gifts of property, including real estate or money, that may be
tendered to it in aid of the planning, establishment, conduct, and
operation of The University of Texas at Dallas, and in aid of the
research and teaching at the university. The board may accept from
the federal government or any foundation, trust fund, corporation,
or individual donations, gifts, and grants, including real estate,
buildings, libraries, laboratories, apparatus, equipment, records,
or money for the use and benefit of the university.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3165, ch. 1024, art. 1, § 1, eff. Sept.
1, 1971.
§ 70.08. UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS. (a) The board of
regents of The University of Texas System may provide for the
admission and enrollment of not more than 2,000 entering freshman
students at The University of Texas at Dallas.
(b) The board may provide for the admission of undergraduate
transfer students with less than 54 semester hours of college
credit at The University of Texas at Dallas as provided by this
section. The board shall control the admission and enrollment of
entering freshmen and of undergraduate transfer students with less
than 54 semester hours of college credit in a manner that ensures
that the enrollment of students classified as freshmen and
sophomores at the institution does not exceed 5,000, except as
provided by Subsection (c) of this section.
(c) For each academic year, in addition to the enrollments
targeted by the academic plan for that academic year, The
University of Texas at Dallas may admit an additional number of
students equal to not more than four percent of the targeted number
if those students are classified as sophomores, have earned more
than 29 but less than 54 semester hours of college credit at a
community college in the Dallas or the Collin County Community
College district, and otherwise meet the minimum criteria for
transfer admission to The University of Texas at Dallas. This
subsection does not limit or otherwise affect the enrollment of
students at The University of Texas at Dallas who have earned
semester credit hours at a community college in the Dallas or the
Collin County Community College district and who otherwise compete
successfully for admission and enrollment at The University of
Texas at Dallas.
(d) It is the intent of the legislature that minority
students be full participants in the educational opportunities
created by the admission of lower-division undergraduate students
to The University of Texas at Dallas primarily in programs leading
to degrees in natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Therefore, until the minority student populations at The University
of Texas at Dallas are fully representative of the state's minority
populations, the board shall cause to be set aside for each academic
year from among the enrollments targeted by the academic plan for
that academic year a number of enrollments equal to not less than
five percent of the targeted number, and those enrollments are to be
reserved exclusively for admission of minority students.
(e) The board shall develop policies for undergraduate
admission to The University of Texas at Dallas that emphasize the
admission and enrollment of lower-division students who intend to
enroll in academic programs leading to degrees in natural sciences,
mathematics, or engineering. Nothing in this section prohibits a
public senior college or university in the North Texas region from
creating and developing undergraduate and graduate programs in the
areas of natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
(f) At a minimum, in addition to other qualitative criteria
that the board may establish, the board shall provide that the
admission criteria for entering freshmen and for transfer students
with less than 54 semester hours of college credit be no less
stringent than the criteria for admission to The University of
Texas at Austin for those students.
(g) The board shall continue to provide for the admission at
The University of Texas at Dallas of undergraduate transfer
students with 54 or more semester hours of college credit. The
admission criteria effective on March 1, 1989, for those students
may continue in effect but may be amended from time to time by the
board. In amending those criteria, the board shall consider that
one of the primary missions of The University of Texas at Dallas is
to serve those students who have received freshman-level and
sophomore-level undergraduate instruction at community colleges
located in the surrounding area.
(h) This section does not affect the criteria for admission
to graduate programs at The University of Texas at Dallas.
(i) In this section, the number of students is determined by
head count.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 1, § 1, eff. May 16,
1990.
