EDUCATION CODE
CHAPTER 76. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979.
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 470, § 1, eff. June
10, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 313, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
§ 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, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979.
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979.
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 470, § 2, eff. June
10, 1995.
§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1,
1979.
§ 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, § 3, eff. June 10, 1995.
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 313, § 3, eff. Sept. 1,
1997.
