The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved goals and guiding principles for the new UT university and medical school to be established in the Rio Grande Valley.
The new university will combine the resources of UT Pan American and UT Brownsville and, unlike those institutions, will be eligible for participation in the Permanent University Fund. It will automatically be the second-largest Hispanic-serving institution in the nation and promises to transform education, opportunity and the economy of South Texas. Regents have pledged to build a world-class university and pursue global excellence in teaching, research and healthcare.
“These guiding principles are the foundation on which this new university will be built,” Board Chairman Gene Powell said at today’s Board of Regents’ meeting. “If we are truly to transform South Texas and build a state-of-the-art university in the Rio Grande Valley, we have to think globally and that is exactly what we are doing.”
The guiding principles serve as a sort of constitution, establishing fundamental precedents for the formation of the new university. They include:
· Fully integrate next-generation technology and customized learning to increase affordability and maximize student success.
· Promote access to postsecondary education to a diverse student body to become one of the largest and most successful Hispanic-serving institutions in the nation.
· Promote arts and humanities programs to produce state, national and world leaders who are bicultural, bilingual and biliterate.
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