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(09-05-2019 04:20 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  I've actually thought about this a lot, and looked at it from several different angles. UT & TAMU would be forced to share the PUF with Texas Tech and the University of Houston. Because UT & TAMU do have huge networks of branch campuses, they both get one third of the PUF. TTU & UH would each get one sixth, because they are smaller universities.

Isn't it currently 2/3 to UT-Austin and 1/3 to A&M?

If so, UT-Austin is not going to give up 1/3 to Tech and Houston with A&M staying the same.

Further, UT-Dallas deserves to share in it as well.

So 50% UT, 25% A&M (to preserve the current 2:1 ratio) and 8.3% to Tech, UT-Dallas and Houston.

Isnt UT-Dallas part of the UT system?

Only campus in the UT-System that can use PUF funds is Austin.

this is incorrect

the only UT System school that gets "excellence" funds from the PUF is UT Austin

in the aggy system College Station and PVAMU get "excellence" funds

the remaining UT and aggy system members that are PUF participants (most of the UT System only a few of the aggy system) get their formula infrastructure funding paid for by the PUF instead of it being paid for by general state revenues, but they do not get any "excellence" funds or any funding over and above formula funding based on the same formulas as all state universities.....it is a simple difference in where the money to cover that particular formula funding comes from

this is one of the main reasons that if the PUF is busted up it will not result in much if any additional revenues to other universities and may even eventually lead to reduced revenues for other universities

because there is a high likelihood once those UT and aggy system schools start getting their formula infrastructure funding paid for by general state revenues that the state will not allocate any additional dollars from general revenues to cover that they will instead allocate the same dollar amount and reduce the dollar funding per formula unit thus everyone will take a hit in the end and the additional PUF dollars they are sharing will not make up for that formula funding decrease

all the more so when idiotic politicians use the busting open of the PUF to start spending into the corpus of the investments like they tried to do with the Permanent School Fund a few years back (and thankfully that was voted down)

What I do think makes sense is reducing the number of "systems" in Texas from 6 to 3 and eliminating the 5 or 6 independents (TSU, Stephen F. Austin, TWU and 2 or 3 others) by moving them into the Texas State University system (currently includes Texas St., Sam Houston St., Sul Ross, Lamar, and 3 Lamar branches in the Golden Triangle).

The Texas St. University system would focus on bachelor's and master's and not Phd.s and research much like the Cal State system. The University of North Texas system would be dissolved with their Dallas campus made simply a learning center and UNT moved into the Texas St. University system as well.

The Texas A&M system probably should be trimmed with some going to the Texas State University system, but if not, simply add Texas Tech, which has a lot of ag programs. Its med school would be merged into TTU and the Texas Tech system dissolved.

UH system would be dissolved with UH-Victoria and UH-Downtown College moved to the Texas St. University system. UH-Clear Lake would be merged into the main campus as a separate location. Houston would become part of the University of Texas system. The UT Health Science Center in Houston could be merged in so UH quits trying to add another unnecessary medical school in Houston.

UT-Dallas has thrived in the UT system and is probably the #3 public school in the state. Houston and Texas Tech would have more access to the PUF than now and that would help them.