In terms of undergraduate enrollment, Black students rose to 5.5%, setting a new record, and Hispanic students rose to 26.1%, qualifying the University for consideration as a Hispanic-Serving Institution
UT spent nearly $20.5 million to reopen campus and estimated $9.5 million in additional costs, according to the report. Of that amount, $7.5 million was used for educational technology, according to an Aug. 18 UT Budget Office report obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act.
UT will increase research workforce density to 50%, resume some in-person interactions with human subjects starting Sept. 23 and allow undergraduates to return to labs in early October.
The University announced Wednesday it will continue to automatically admit the top 6% of eligible high school students in Texas for summer and fall 2022.
Hartzell discussed his plans for handling the COVID-19 pandemic at the University, the continuation of football games and online learning during his one-on-one live discussion.
Some students were forced to take out additional loans for tuition costs this fall after a decrease in financial aid, despite extra assistance from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
The UT-Austin COVID-19 Dashboard has been updated retroactively to add 109 cases from off-campus testing sources, according to a text update on the dashboard Wednesday afternoon.
UT will start to promote and integrate the platform this week to faculty. Instructors can choose to use the free materials from the platform as an additional resource or an alternative to textbooks.
Research fund amounts sent to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for UT’s annual accountability report have been unintentionally “slightly distorted” over years to inaccurately show more significant changes in funding.
