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On January 31, 1860, wanting to avoid raising taxes, the legislature authorized the funds for the University of Texas. [7] Article 7, Section 11 of the 1876 Constitution established the Permanent University Fund (PUF), a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, dedicated to the university's maintenance ...
Eugene C. Barker — Texas historian, chair of the history department, academic journal editor; Nettie Lee Benson – historian, archivist, and the namesake of the Benson Latin American Collection; Walter L. Buenger – historian of the American South; Daina Ramey Berry – History Department Chair, historian specializing in gender, slavery ...
The Department of Geography and The Environment is a division of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. The Department was founded in 1949 as the 'Department of Geography' and was renamed the 'Department of Geography and the Environment' in 2004. [1] It was the first Geography Department established in Texas to award ...
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 52,384 students as of fall 2022, it is also the largest institution in the system. [12]
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin named for Dolph Briscoe, the 41st governor of Texas. The center collects and preserves documents and artifacts of key themes in Texas and United States history and makes the items available to researchers ...
The institution is a major research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, US and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with ...
The College of Engineering at the University of Texas was established as the Department of Engineering in 1894. Thomas Ulvan (T.U.) Taylor became the College's first dean in 1906, and he introduced the "Ramshorn" symbol as a mark of academic excellence within the college.
The Department of Radio–Television–Film at the University of Texas at Austin located in Austin, Texas, is one of the five departments comprising the Moody College of Communication. The department was founded in 1965 and has become one of the nation's premiere film schools , consistently ranking in the top 5 for graduate programs and the top ...