The Texas Constitution of 1876 mandated that the state establish a university "at an early day," calling for the creation of a "university of the first class," styled " The University of Texas." It revoked the endowment of the railroad lands of the Act of 1858 but appropriated 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km 2) in West Texas. The university's Old Main Building in 1903Īfter the war, the 1862 Morrill Act facilitated the creation of what is now Texas A&M University, which was established in 1876 as the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas. But Texas's secession from the Union and the American Civil War prevented further action on these plans. In addition, the legislature designated land, previously reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction, toward the universities' fifty leagues. The state legislature passed the Act of 1858, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds towards construction of a university. In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States of America. On January 26, 1839, the Congress of Texas agreed to eventually set aside fifty leagues of land towards the effort in addition, 40 acres (160,000 m 2) in the new capital of Austin were reserved and designated "College Hill." (The term "Forty Acres" is colloquially used to refer to the University as a whole.) But after Texas obtained its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Congress of Texas adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which included a provision to establish public education in the republic, including two universities or colleges. Although an article promised to establish public education in the arts and sciences, no action was taken by the Mexican government. The first mention of a public university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Main article: History of the University of Texas at Austin Establishment The university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002.
Current and former UT Austin athletes have won 117 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008. The university has won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, and has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other school in the Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996. UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $640 million for the 2009–2010 school year. The University of Texas at Austin was named one of the original eight Public Ivy institutions and was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929. The institution has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation, with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and over 24,000 faculty and staff. Founded in 1883, its campus is approximately 0.25 miles (400 m) from the Texas State Capitol in Austin. It is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.
The University of Texas at Austin ( University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or simply Texas) is a public research-intensive university located in Austin, Texas, United States. The University of Texas at AustinĬultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy For the university system, see University of Texas System.
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