Deck 6: Higher Education in Texas

Question 1

Which state currently dominates the U.S. News and World Report list of top 10 public universities?

A) California
B) Illinois
C) New York
D) Texas

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The first public university established in Texas Was:

A) UT
B) Baylor
C) Texas Tech
D) Texas A&M

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Who was governor in 1965 when the Texas Legislature created the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System?

A) Allen Shivers
B) John Connally
C) Dolph Briscoe
D) Ann Richards

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which UT president ran for governor after he was fired from UT?

A) Homer Rainey
B) R.E. Vinson
C) Bill Powers
D) Frank Erwin

Question 5

What Texas university did former Governor Rick Perry graduate from?

A) UT
B) Texas A&M
C) Texas Tech
D) Sam Houston State

Question 6

What was the first state university established for blacks in Texas?

A) Wiley University
B) Grambling State University
C) Howard University
D) Prairie View A&M

Question 7

In 1992, Cheryl Hopwood, a white applicant to the UT Law School, sued claiming race conscious admissions criteria were unconstitutional. Did she:

A) win
B) lose
C) withdraw her challenge
D) go on to law school at LSU

Question 8

Who is the Texas Commissioner of Higher Education?

A) Raymund ParedesHarrison Keller
B) Gene Powell
C) John Sharp
D) Bill Powers

Question 9

Today, what proportion of students pursuing higher education in Texas are Anglo?

A) 4038 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 6058 percent
D) 70 percent

Question 10

What proportion of students in Texas higher education attend community colleges?

A) one-quarter
B) less than half
C) more than half
D) three-quarters

Question 11

In what year did President Mirabeau B. Lamar and the Texas Congress set aside 221,000 acres for two public universities?

A) 1815
B) 1839
C) 1861
D) 1881

Question 12

In what year did the Texas Legislature authorize UT, Austin?

A) 1845
B) 1861
C) 1881
D) 1902

Question 13

Who was the prominent UT Law School professor who worked between 1899 and 1928 to defend southern values, principles, and institutions?

A) Jefferson Davis
B) John Gunther
C) William Stewart Simkins
D) Robert Donovan Lee

Question 14

Which Texas governor vetoed the UT budget in 1917?

A) Sul Ross
B) James Hogg
C) Homer Rainey
D) James Ferguson

Question 15

Who was the UT president forced from office in 2015?

A) Elsa Murano
B) Gene Powell
C) Bill Powers
D) Francisco Cigarroa

Question 16

Who was the black Texan admitted to the UT Law School in 1950?

A) Orville Bullington
B) Heman Sweatt
C) Lloyd Gaines
D) Thurgood Marshall

Question 17

How many times did Abigail Fisher's challenge to UT's use of race (in addition to the top 10 percent rule) for undergraduate admissions get to the U.S. Supreme Court?

A) once
B) twice
C) three times
D) four times

Question 18

Where do the revenues that go into the Permanent University Fund (PUF) come from?

A) sales taxes
B) income taxes
C) land use fees
D) wind and solar energy fees

Question 19

In what year did the Texas legislature pass tuition setting authority to the higher education governing boards?

A) 1943
B) 1963
C) 1983
D) 2003

Question 20

Since 2000, Texas higher education enrollment rates have been about what percent of the national average?

A) 50 percent
B) 70 percent
C) 90 percent
D) 110 percent

Question 21

What percent of adult Texans have a B. A. degree or better?

A) 15 percent
B) 18 percent
C) 25 percent
D) 2830 percent

Question 22

The Closing the Gaps, 2000-2015 initiative is now over. Which racial group met the attendance targets set back in 2000?

A) Blacks
B) Hispanics
C) Anglos
D) Native Americans

Question 23

In 20168, 14.23.1 percent of Texas college students were black. What percent of UT students were black?

A) 2 percent
B) 4 percent
C) 8 percent
D) 10 percent

Question 24

Which racial or ethnic group in Texas has the highest six-year degree completion rate?

A) Blacks
B) Hispanics
C) Asians
D) Anglos

Question 25

What proportion of community college students earn a degree or certificate within six-years of beginning study?

A) 30 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 70 percent
D) 90 percent

Question 26

How have considerations of race impacted the design and development of higher education in Texas?

Question 27

Using what you know about Texas political culture and history, explain why you think Texas will or will not capture one or more of the top 10 spots on the U.S. News and World Report ranking of top public universities.

Question 28

Evaluate the decision by the Texas legislature to shift authority to set tuition rates to the university governing boards. In what ways has that decision succeeded or failed and should it be reconsidered?

Question 29

Describe the origins and purpose of the Permanent University Fund (PUF).

Question 30

What role did UT Law Professor William Stewart Simkins play in Texas higher education?

Question 31

What brought UT President Bill Powers into conflict with UT system Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, some of the UT Regents, and Governor Perry?

Question 32

What role did Heman Marion Sweatt have in the fight to open all Texas higher education institutions to blacks?

Question 33

How do oil prices effect state funding for higher education in Texas?

Question 34

Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis was the first President of Texas A&M University.

Question 35

During the middle decades of the 20^th century, UT tuition rates were about half the national average.

Question 36

Texas college attendance rates have usually lagged the national average.

Question 37

Former Governor Rick Perry was a Texas Tech alum.

Question 38

Heman Sweatt was the first black person admitted to the UT Law School.

Question 39

Governor _______ declared that we must insure that Texas public universities claim five of the top 10 spots in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of public universities.

Question 40

The first Texas public institution of higher education for blacks was_______

Question 41

Governor _______ declared, "I am the Governor of Texas, I don't have to give reasons."

Question 42

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), Jeff Sandefer, and Governor Rick Perry all supported a higher education reform program called the _______

Question 43

In 2008, _______sued UT to block the use of race outside the 10 percent rule in undergraduate admissions.

Question 44

Governor Rick Perry touted a cheap B. A. degree, costing just _______for four years.

Question 45

_______was the title of a plan for improving attendance and graduation rates in Texas higher education between 2000 and 2015.