Post by Logan on Jun 22, 2016 21:57:41 GMT -6
Governing boards side with UT chancellor in regent’s suit for records
A University of Texas System regent does not have the right to unlimited access to records from an investigation into admissions at the Austin flagship, a group representing 1,300 college governing boards says in court papers.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges sided with UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven, who has refused to turn over the records to Regent Wallace L. Hall Jr. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals is considering Hall’s bid to overturn a lower court ruling that upheld McRaven’s position.
“The exact line where an information request becomes excessive need not be drawn to conclude that it is transgressed in this case by Regent Hall’s demand for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents contained in a third-party investigative file related to a now-superseded university policy, and as to which the UT System has bonafide student privacy concerns,” the association said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week.
A system-commissioned report in February 2015 by New York City-based Kroll Associates Inc. found that then-UT President Bill Powers sometimes ordered students admitted, despite subpar academic records, at the urging of legislators, regents, donors and other influential people. In August 2015, the UT board approved a new policy that permits a campus president to order the admission of a “qualified student” who might otherwise be rejected, but only on “very rare” occasions and only in situations of “highest institutional importance.”
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/governing-boards-side-with-ut-chancellor-in-regent/nrktW/
A University of Texas System regent does not have the right to unlimited access to records from an investigation into admissions at the Austin flagship, a group representing 1,300 college governing boards says in court papers.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges sided with UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven, who has refused to turn over the records to Regent Wallace L. Hall Jr. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals is considering Hall’s bid to overturn a lower court ruling that upheld McRaven’s position.
“The exact line where an information request becomes excessive need not be drawn to conclude that it is transgressed in this case by Regent Hall’s demand for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents contained in a third-party investigative file related to a now-superseded university policy, and as to which the UT System has bonafide student privacy concerns,” the association said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week.
A system-commissioned report in February 2015 by New York City-based Kroll Associates Inc. found that then-UT President Bill Powers sometimes ordered students admitted, despite subpar academic records, at the urging of legislators, regents, donors and other influential people. In August 2015, the UT board approved a new policy that permits a campus president to order the admission of a “qualified student” who might otherwise be rejected, but only on “very rare” occasions and only in situations of “highest institutional importance.”
Read more: www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/governing-boards-side-with-ut-chancellor-in-regent/nrktW/