Proposals to modify the law died in the Legislature.
Faulkner says the law ought to be scaled back to apply to half of the number of the incoming freshman class.
“I think that if I had a frustration out of the last legislative session it would be that both polar ends of this argument — those who didn’t want to change the law at all and those who wanted to repeal it — would’ve gotten probably 95 percent of what they were looking for if they’d just gone to the 50 percent cap,” he says.
Faulkner is the third-longest serving president in UT-Austin history. By March he would have the second-longest tenure. He became president in 1998. Before leading UT-Austin, Faulkner was provost, dean of the college of arts and sciences and head of the chemistry department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
— The Associated Press
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