General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 468
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Ch. 167 58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
ANGELO STATE COLLEGE
CHAPTER 167 89
S. B. No. 2
An Act creating and establishing Angelo State College at San Angelo, Texas, as a
coeducational institution of higher learning, providing that the organization,
management and control of said College shall be vested in the Board of
Regents of the State Teachers Colleges; empowering the Board of Regents to
appoint and to remove the President, any faculty member or other officer
or employee of the College when it deems such appointment or removal
necessary to the best interests of the College and to fix the salaries and
prescribe the duties thereof by written order; providing for offering courses
of higher learning in the arts and sciences, in business administration and
in teacher training, establishing a standard four-year course for said College;
providing for the awarding of bachelor's degrees; providing that higher
degrees may be offered only on recommendation of the Board of Regents,
with the approval of the Texas Commission on Higher Education; providing
for special, short and terminal courses; providing for the transfer, gift and
donation of all the assets, corporeal properties and facilities of the Junior
College District of Tom Green County, Texas, to the Board of Regents or
its successors, of the Angelo State College, herein created on September 1,
1965, free and clear of any indebtedness or indebtednesses, encumbrance or
encumbrances of any kind and authorizing the Board of Regents of the Col-
lege herein created to accept such assets, corporeal properties and facilities;
providing for the Board of Regents to accept donations, gifts and endow.
ments; vesting the management and control of the lands and minerals of
the College in the Board of Regents; authorizing and directing the Board of
Regents to prescribe fees, rentals and charges for use of the facilities of
Angelo State College and for reporting thereof; authorizing the Board of
Regents to enter into contracts with the Department of Defense of the
United States of America to establish and maintain courses in military
training, for credit therefor, under certain conditions; providing a severa-
bility clause; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. There is hereby created and established in the City of
San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, a coeducational institution of
higher learning for the youth of the state, which shall be known as Angelo
State College. The organization, control and management of said Angelo
State College shall be vested in the Board of Regents of the State Teachers
Colleges.
Sec. 2. The Board of Regents shall have the power to appoint and to
remove the President, any faculty member, or other officer or employee of
the College, when, in its judgment, the interests of the College shall re-
quire the appointment or removal thereof, and it shall fix the respective
salaries and duties of such officers, all faculty members and all employees
by written order incorporated into the minutes of the Board.
Sec. 3. Angelo State College shall offer courses of higher learning
in the arts and sciences, in business administration and teacher training,
establishing a standard four-year course for said College. Such courses
of study shall be offered as are found in the senior colleges of the state in
similar fields as the Board of Regents may, in writing, order; provided,
however, that the role and scope of Angelo State College, including its
authorized departments and offerings of degree and certificate programs at
the effective date of this Act, shall be subject to the determination and ap-
proval of the Texas Commission on Higher Education; and provided fur-
ther, that any bachelor's degree shall be based on four (4) years of college
89. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 2654.2.
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