Perry: Let South Texas Access Permanent University Fund
In his State of the State address, Gov. Rick Perry called on lawmakers to allow South Texas to tap the Permanent University Fund, a substantial pot of money that only certain universities in the University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System are granted access to by the Texas Constitution.
In the UT System, the institutions that currently do not have PUF access are the University of Texas at Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg. In December, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced an ambitious plan to combine the two institutions, allowing lawmakers to grant ...
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roel benavides
Everything is fine and dandy, but I hope that the medical school that you are proposing is composed of at least 90% of students being from Texas and not from India and the Middle East. These people are taking over our colleges and universities, leaving our kids (citizens) to look at other options and careers. Very Sad.