CHAPTER 115. PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FOR CENTRAL TEXAS - Texas Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

TITLE 3. HIGHER EDUCATION

SUBTITLE F. OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

CHAPTER 115. PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FOR CENTRAL TEXAS

Sec. 115.001. PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FOR CENTRAL TEXAS.

Text of section effective September 1, 1998, provided that the

transfer authorized by section 1 of Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch.

1176 takes effect and the transfer is made to a university system

other than The Texas A&M University System

(a) The Public University for Central Texas is a coeducational

upper-level educational institution located in the city of

Killeen. The institution is a component institution of higher

education of the university system to which that institution was

transferred pursuant to an Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular

Session, 1997, and is under the management and control of the

board of regents of that university system.

(b) The board of regents has the same powers and duties

concerning the Public University for Central Texas as are

conferred on the board by law concerning other component

institutions of the university system.

(c) The institution may accept only junior, senior, and

graduate-level students.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1176, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1,

1998.

Sec. 115.002. POWERS OF BOARD OF REGENTS.

Text of section effective September 1, 1998, provided that the

transfer authorized by section 1 of Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch.

1176 takes effect and the transfer is made to a university system

other than The Texas A&M University System

(a) The board may:

(1) prescribe courses leading to degrees customarily offered in

leading American upper-level educational institutions;

(2) award the degrees described by Subdivision (1);

(3) enter into an affiliation or coordination agreement with an

entity if reasonably necessary or desirable for the operation of

a first-class upper-level educational institution;

(4) make joint appointments in the Public University for Central

Texas and another institution within the same university system;

and

(5) adopt rules for the operation, control, and management of

the institution as necessary for the operation of a first-class

upper-level educational institution, including rules governing

the number of students who may be admitted to any program at the

institution.

(b) The salary of a person who receives a joint appointment

under Subsection (a)(4) must be apportioned among the

institutions to which the individual is appointed on the basis of

the services rendered.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1176, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1,

1998.