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Number of employees

Q: Does anyone know how many employees (faculty and staff) the UT system has? This could be included in the main article.

A: This has been added to the intro paragraph and info box: 21,000 faculty and more than 83,000 health care professionals,researchers and support staff. Mtrevino78 (talk) 16:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC) UT System employee[reply]

UT Arlington last ties

Q: From what I understood, the University of Texas at Arlington broke its last ties with the rest of the UT university system about a year and half ago. Should it be included?

A: There were talks about UTA moving out of the UT System, but it still is in the system.

this document should explain.

PUF/endowment

There is no reference to the system's endowment --134.134.136.1 22:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_University_Fund. Your point is well taken, i.e., a link to PUF information could be on each of the UT system's school page. Brad Eleven 16:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC) Brad Eleven[reply]

Academic rankings

These should be listed with institutions, not here Tee Owe 15:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Law Schools

Shouldn't UT Law be included along with other business and law schools UT has? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.151.180.215 (talk) 20:29, 16 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"University of Texas"

Why does it go to the Austin one instead of the university's system when you look for "University of Texas"? ..::Texan Atheist::.. 13:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is discussed here. --JYi 17:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"University of Texas System" vs. "University of Texas system"

The "s" in the word system is currently capitalized. The convention for non-proper names is lower case per Wikipedia:Article_titles#Article_title_format. -- Marco Guzman, Jr Chat 03:36, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But the full noun is "University of Texas System" - The "System" is a part of the name here WhisperToMe (talk) 18:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The legal title is The University of Texas System, per the branding page; should that be corrected throughout? CSTKing (talk) 01:30, 17 February 2024 (UTC) (I am learning!)[reply]

Orphaned references in University of Texas System

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of University of Texas System's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "US News":

From University of Texas at San Antonio: "University of Texas--San Antonio". US News. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
From University of North Texas: "U.S. News and World Report 2012 Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2011.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:47, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Motto 'translation' in infobox

The infobox on University of Texas related articles currently gives the motto "Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis" with the 'translation' "Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy". That's an enormous stretch: the Latin means something like "Learning [is] the bulwark of the state". Apparently the English version was written first, and inspired the Latin one; but I think it's misleading to say that one is a direct translation of the other. Could the infobox be changed somehow to account for this—perhaps by using the separate "motto" and "mottoeng" fields? Cheers, gnu 57 22:49, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Colors of the seal don't match

The colors of the current seal shown on this page do not match those on the UT System website. The red background here is #d31145 but the official seal has a deeper #981b1e. Unfortunately it may take a UT System employee to provide a high-quality version of the official one, since it is only accessible on the intranet. See https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/branding/visual-style-guide Pzriddle (talk) 12:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Pzriddle: It's been updated. Colors taken directly from the web logo. Thanks, Corky 22:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Date the Wikipedia Page

Please date the Wikipedia Page, ...so as to date stats listed for number of classroom instructors, number of students, number of administration employees, etc. Thank You. 47.185.211.215 (talk) 19:46, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]