University of Texas System

The University of Texas System
Motto Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis
(Latin for "Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy")
Type State university system
Established 1876
Endowment $26.535 billion (2018)[1]
Chancellor James Milliken
Academic staff
17,158[2]
Administrative staff
62,982[2]
Undergraduates 167,028[3]
Postgraduates 54,309[3]
Colors Navy blue, orange, and tan
              
Website www.utsystem.edu

The University of Texas System (UT System) encompasses 14 educational institutions in the U.S. state of Texas, of which eight are academic universities and six are health institutions. The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin, and has a total enrollment of over 216,000 students (largest university system in Texas) and employs more than 87,000 faculty and staff. The UT System's $24 billion endowment (as of the 2016 fiscal year) is the largest of any public university system in the United States.[4] Reuters ranks The UT System among the top 10 most innovative universities in the world.[5][6]

Component institutions

Academic institutions

The University of Texas System has eight separate and distinct academic institutions; each institution is a stand-alone university and confers its own degrees. Its oldest and flagship institution is The University of Texas at Austin.

Official name Official
abbrev.
Location Estab. Joined
system
Enrollment
(Fall 2015)
Refs
The University of Texas at Arlington UTA Arlington 1895 1965 37,008 [7][8][9]
The University of Texas at Austin UT Austin Austin 1883 51,313 [10][11][12]
The University of Texas at Dallas UTD Richardson 1961 1969 24,533 [13][14][15]
The University of Texas at El Paso UTEP El Paso 1913 1967 23,397 [16][17][18][19]
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley UTRGV Brownsville, Edinburg, [n 1]
Harlingen, McAllen, Rio Grande City
2015[n 1] 29,045 [20][21][22][23][24]
The University of Texas at San Antonio UTSA San Antonio 1969 28,628 [20][21][22][23]
The University of Texas at Tyler UT Tyler Tyler 1971 1979 8,862 [25][26][27]
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin UTPB Odessa 1973 5,560 [28][29][30]
Notes
  1. 1 2 UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 by the merger of UT Brownsville and UTPA, but did not begin operation until 2015.

Former institutions merged

Official name Official
abbrev.
Location Founded Joined
system
Merged Refs
The University of Texas at Brownsville UT Brownsville, UTB Brownsville 1973 1991 2015
(merged to form The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
[31][32]
The University of Texas–Pan American UTPA Edinburg 1927 1989 [33][34]

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

On June 14, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed SB 24 into law, officially approving the creation of a new university in South Texas within the UT System, officially replacing UT-Brownsville and UT-Pan American. The initiative resulted in a single institution, including a medical school, spanning the entire Rio Grande Valley, with a presence in each of the major metropolitan areas of Brownsville, Edinburg, Harlingen, and McAllen. On December 12, 2013, the UT Board of Regents voted to name the new university the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.[35] The new university began full operation in the 2015–16 school year.

Health institutions

In addition to eight academic institutions, the University of Texas System also has six standalone health institutions. Two of the academic institutions also house medical schools.

The 1890 Ashbel Smith building on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Student profile

Racial and/or ethnic background (2015)
Students[36]Texas[37]United States[38]
Asian 11%5%6%
Black 7%13%13%
Hispanic
(of any race, includes Tejanos and White Hispanics)
39%39%18%
Non-Hispanic White 30%43%61%
International student 9%N/AN/A
Other races or unknown 4%3%N/A

Administration

O. Henry Hall, the former main administrative building for the system, is in Downtown Austin

The administrative offices are in Downtown Austin.[39] The UT system approved moving the system headquarters in November 2012.[40] Bonds from the UT System's endowment funded the construction of the new 19-story, 330,000-square-foot (31,000 m2) headquarters, which had a price tag of $102 million. The UT system planned to lease a portion of the facility for shops and other offices, with the approximately 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) remaining portion used for its own employees.[41] The system headquarters, named Replacement Office Building (ROB), were scheduled to open on August 1, 2017.[42]

The University of Texas System was previously headquartered in O. Henry Hall in Downtown Austin.[43] The system headquarters complex previously included multiple buildings, which had 550 employees in 2014.[41] These faciliies included O. Henry Hall, Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall (named after Lady Bird Johnson), Ashbel Smith Hall, the Colorado Building, the Lavaca Building, and the Norwood Tower. Parking garages serving the complex include Parking Garage I, Parking Garage II, Parking Garage III, 300 West 6th Street Parking Garage, and the garage between the Colorado and Lavaca buildings.[44]

In 2013 the UT system approved the demolitions of the Colorado Building and the Lavaca Building,[40] and the new UT headquarters was built where these buildings previously stood.[41] The Texas State University System purchased O. Henry Hall in 2015 for $8.2 million;[40] the UT System leased it and continued using it as its administrative headquarters prior to the 2017 completion of the UT System's current headquarters.[45] The UT system replaced Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall and Ashbel Smith Hall with a commercial property that used the façade of Johnson Hall and is leased by Trammell Crow.[40] The Ashbel Smith name is no longer used, and in this way UT Austin removes any references to the Confederate States of America, now highly controversial in 2017; Ashbel Smith was involved in the Confederacy.[42] Ashbel Smith Hall was promptly imploded on March 25, 2018.[46]

Coordinated Admissions Program

The Coordinated Admissions Program (more colloquially known as "CAP") offers some UT Austin applicants the chance to attend the university if they complete their freshman year at another system school and meet specified requirements.[47] Each institution in the University of Texas System sets its own admissions standards, and not all schools may accept a particular CAP student.[47] UT Dallas does not participate in the CAP program, and UTSA, the largest recipient of CAP students, has stated it will be phasing out the program within the next ten years.[48][49]

See also

Notes

  1. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY2016 to FY2017 Retrieved on 17 August 2018
  2. 1 2 "2006 figure" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. 1 2
  4. "The 10 richest public universities in America". Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. "UT System among top 10 most innovative universities in the world". University of Texas System. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  6. "Reuters Top 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities - 2017". 27 September 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2018 via Reuters.
  7. "University of Texas at Arlington". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  8. "The University of Texas at Arlington". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  9. "UTA Enrollment Climbs 6.1 Percent to Record 37,000 Texas-Based Students". 15 September 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  10. "2011–2012 Fiscal Year Funds & Finances Analysis" (PDF). UT Austin Office of Information Management and Analysis. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 26, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  11. "The University of Texas at Austin". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  12. "Facts & Figures | The University of Texas at Austin". utexas.edu. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  13. "UT Dallas Announces 1st Comprehensive Campaign". Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  14. "UTD". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  15. "Fast Facts - Parents and Families - UTD". Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  16. "UTEP". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  17. "UTEP". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  18. Benedict, Harry Y. (1917). A Source Book Relating to the History of the University of Texas. Austin: University of Texas. p. 492.
  19. "UTEP Facts Brochure". Archived from the original on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  20. 1 2 "UTSA". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  21. 1 2 "UTSA Fact Book 2011 (New Undergraduates Section)". Office of Institutional Research. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  22. 1 2 "The University of Texas at San Antonio". College Portrait. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  23. 1 2 "Fast Facts - About - UTSA". Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  24. "UTRGV - UTRGV welcomes 29,045 #FirstClass students on first day". www.utrgv.edu. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  25. "UT Tyler". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  26. "UT-Tyler". College Portraits. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  27. "UT Tyler Fast Facts". Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  28. "UTPB". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  29. "UTPB". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  30. "UTPB | Quick Facts". utpb.edu. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  31. "University of Texas Brownsville". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  32. "UTBSC". College Portraits. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  33. "UTPA". US News. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  34. "The University of Texas-Pan American". College Portrait. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  35. Fischler, Jacob. "Regents name university: UT-RGV". The Monitor. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  36. (PDF) https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/default/files/documents/facts%2C-figures-and-data/Fast%20Facts%202016/Fast_Facts_2016_Feb2017_v2Update.pdf. Retrieved 2018-03-25. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  37. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html
  38. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
  39. "Contact Us." University of Texas System. Retrieved on November 19, 2017. "Address The University of Texas System 210 West 7th Street Austin, TX 78701-2982"
  40. 1 2 3 4 "Redevelopment of UT System downtown property will generate millions in revenue for city". University of Texas System. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  41. 1 2 3 Haurwitz, Ralph K.M. (2014-02-27). "University of Texas System to build $102 million headquarters downtown". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 2017-11-19. - Alternate link
  42. 1 2 Herman, Ken (2017-07-04). "Herman: Move-in day nears for UT System Replacement Office Building". Austin American-Statesman. Archived from the original on 2017-11-19. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  43. "UT System Contact Information." University of Texas System. October 6, 2009. Retrieved on November 19, 2017. "UT System Contact Information General Contact Information 601 Colorado Street Austin TX 78701-2982 "
  44. "Parking Map." University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved on June 21, 2010.
  45. "Regents Approve Purchase of O. Henry Hall from UT System" (Press release). Austin, Texas: Texas State University System. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  46. "WATCH: Former UT building in downtown Austin brought down by implosion". KEPR-TV. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  47. 1 2 "Information about CAP". Be a Longhorn. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  48. "UTSA to phase out CAP Program Archived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine.". The Paisano. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  49. "CAP students love UTSA, for now Archived 2012-04-30 at the Wayback Machine.". The Paisano. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
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