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lingering questions about
■whether money was misused
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Provost John Burns began
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gligent in not doesBorted that some class discus-
elected to thisoLyfton sessions listed in the uni
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tion at the maxinHeaching assistant and a num-
br bid by summer Kt of faculty members and
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ceptable assignment,” Burns
»TOte in his final report. “I
iound no example in which a
leaching assistant was being
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ng contracts.”
His findings were submit
ted to Tech president David
chmidly on Monday.
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UT releases enrollment
AUSTIN (AP) — Enrollment at
the University of Texas-Austin is
50,010 this fall, a preliminary
number the university says should
allow the campus to retain its rank
ing as the nation's largest.
Enrollment is broken down by
three categories: 38,184 under
graduates, 10,420 graduates and
1,406 law students, the university
announced Monday. The total is 2
percent more than last fall’s
49,009.
The increase is primarily the re
sult of a larger-than-expected fall
freshman enrollment of 6,664 and
a near doubling of summer provi
sional students, UT said.
The number of minority fresh
man attending UT also increased
this fall.
There were 296 black students,
up 10 from 286 in 1999; 1,324
Asian students, up 103 from 1,221
“It's clear the
university at
tracts the best
and the brightest
students in in
creasing numbers
and we are work
ing hard to retain
these students at
increasing rates”
— Larry Faulkner
University of Texas president
in 1999; and 1,011 Hispanic stu
dents, up 35 from 976 in 1999.
According to the university,
62.7 percent of UT’s total student
body is white, 0.5 percent is Amer
ican Indian, 3.2 percent is African
American, 12.5 percent is Asian
and 11.8 percent is Hispanic.
“It is clear the university at
tracts the best and the brightest
students in increasing numbers
and we are working hard to retain
these students at increasing rates,”
said university president Larry
Faulkner.
Faulkner said the university
needs to manage enrollment num
bers while enhancing faculty and
resources.
The university’s Office of Insti
tutional Studies calculates enroll
ment figures every 12th class day
of the month, but there is usually
little variation from the prelimi
nary figures.
Committee on education
investigates rising tuition
AUSTIN (AP) — Tu
ition and fees at Texas pub
lic universities have nearly
doubled since 1992, and
the state’s higher education
commissioner says that
works against a goal of in
creasing the number of
poor and minority students.
Don Brown told the
House Higher Education
Committee on Tuesday
that the rising costs and
the greater burden on stu
dents and their families is
“a danger to our ability to
close gaps” in low-in-
come and minority enroll
ment by 2015.
Annual tuition and fees
have increased from
$1,621 in 1992 to $2,935
in 1998, Brown testified.
Twenty-two percent of
that cost is being paid by
students and their fami
lies, compared with 16
percent in 1992.
The total estimated
cost — tuition, fees,
transportation, room and
board and books — to at
tend a four-year public
university in Texas this
year is $11,894. That is
compared with a national
average of $10,909.
Brown emphasized
that higher education re
mains a good investment
for students and the state,
but expressed concern
about the rising price.
“We all like to think of
Texas as a low-tuition-and-
fees state and for a long
time we were,” Brown
said. “In recent years,
though, Texas has moved
higher in the rankings.”
According to one list
distributed by the Higher
Education Coordinating
Board, Texas had the 29th-
highest tuition and fees in
the nation. Brown said the
state had traditionally
been ranked in the 40s.
Also on Tuesday, the
committee heard testimo
ny from the chancellors
of state universities, col
leges and technical
schools on a proposal to
designate more institu
tions as “flagships,” giv
ing them more money
from the $7.5 billion Per
manent University Fund
and a greater variety of
doctorate, graduate and
undergraduate programs.
Supporters of the 30-
year plan suggest naming
UT-Dallas, UT-San Anto
nio and the University of
Houston as flagships. Pro
ponents said the changes
are necessary because of
lagging enrollment, a
growing economy and to
keep up with public uni
versities in other states
such as California.
Texas’ higher educa
tion system will earn its
“rightful place” among
the nation’s premier uni
versities if legislators
adopt the plan, said Arthur
Smith, chancellor at the
University of Houston.
Strike!
KEVIN BURNS/Tim Battalion
Jay Fenlaw, a senior accounting major, bowls a few frames at
the Memorial Student Center bowling alley on Tuesday.
Fenlaw and his friends have weekly bowling competitions.
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