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Item Climate action strategies for the University of Texas at Austin(2010-05) Hernandez, Marinoelle; Eaton, David J.; Walker, Jim H.This report analyzes the current greenhouse gas emissions inventory for The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), reviews the carbon reduction strategies being implemented at UT-Austin and other peer institutions, and offers recommendations for strategies that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at UT-Austin in the future.Item Remembering and performing the ideal campus : the sound cultures of interwar American universities(2010-08) Schafer, Kimberly Ann; Ford, Phil, 1969-; Buhler, James, 1964-; Cleary, Richard; Davis, Janet; Dell'Antonio, Andrew; Erlmann, VeitIn this dissertation, I examine extracurricular music of American universities between the two World Wars and consider it as an indicator of the idealization of collegiate life. Interwar discourse at American universities demonstrated the two contrasting ideals of the older collegiate model and the more recent university model. The collegiate model was associated with ideals related to character building, a sense of community, and a common curriculum, whereas the university model was associated with social utility, research, and liberal culture. Proponents of the collegiate model idealized an older collegiate life in America. One version of this idealized collegiate life captured the popular imagination of Americans in the late nineteenth century – the vision of students developing their social skills in the extracurriculum at the expense of their intellect in the official curriculum. Various members of the university community at Stanford University, The University of Texas, and Yale University promoted this idyllic view of collegiate life in the extracurriculum. Marching bands, glee clubs, and bell instruments were thought to transmit collegiate values of community and character building. The music’s adaptation to modern trends and values, however, reveal that it did not fully adhere to an idealized image of pre-modern college life. The university communities believed that music (and sound in general) with its ability to reach listeners’ memories and emotions, was unique in its access to interior subjectivity. This belief guided university administrators to use campus sounds to instill school spirit and nostalgia. Yet the failure of certain audio memorabilia, namely the Talking Page of the Onondagan yearbook of Syracuse University and The Cactus in Sound of The University of Texas, leads us to question this assumption of special interior access. Administrators, students, and alumni all had a hand in using sounds to elicit these strong sentiments toward their university, which administrators hoped would foster increased financial supportItem University lands: resource utilization for higher education, 1838-1996(Texas Tech University, 2004-05) Houck, Michael L ToddThe 2.1 million-acre land reserve of the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, called "university lands," played a significant role in the financial history of both institutions. This dissertation traces the history of the university lands from 1838 to 1996. President Mirabeau B. Lamar in 1838 announced plans to set aside a fifty-league land reserve for the establishment and maintenance of a university. In 1876, the Constitution called for the establishment of a University of Texas, the Permanent University Fund (PUF), the Available University Fund (AUF), and a grant of one million acres of land, known as the "constitutional million." An additional land grant in 1883 represented the so-called "legislative million" and completed the present-day university lands. The study examines the development, use, and management of the university lands. Following the establishment of the University of Texas in 1881, the University of Texas Board of Regents began lobbying for exclusive control over the sale and lease of university lands. Following two decades of such efforts, lawmakers granted the regents' request in 1895. The year 1896 marked a watershed in the history of university lands. The regents hired an agent to lease and sell university lands on their behalf Income increased almost immediately and surface use diversified in the following years, but, more importantly, oil was discovered on university lands in 1923. The year 1929 was also important in the history of university lands. That year the legislature established the University Lands Surface Office and University Lands Geology Office. Lawmakers also set up the Board for Lease of University Lands to handle mineral lease sales and the University Lands Survey Office to re-survey the entire 2.1 million-acre university lands. Surface leasing provided considerable income for the AUF throughout the twentieth century, but oil revenues proved to be the real windfall. Through sound policies, university lands management organization helped make the PUF the largest endowment of a public institution of higher learning in the United States. By the 1990s, oil revenues began to decline and the regents looked to investment management to continue sustained growth of the PUF. In 1996 the regents established the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) to manage PUF investments. They also placed the three management organizations. University Lands Surface, Mineral Interests, and Accounting, under a single director and designated the combined organizations as University Lands West Texas Operations (WTO).