- (a) The board may award baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees and their equivalents, but the board may not institute a department, school, or program without the prior approval of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(b) A program offered by the metroplex commuter program:
- (1) must be approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; and
- (2) may not duplicate a program offered by another institution of higher education in the Dallas area.
- (c) The board shall adopt other rules for the operation, control, and management of East Texas State University as may be necessary for the institution to be a first-class institution of higher education. The board may establish different rules for the operation of the facilities and programs at different locations of the institution.
- (d) The board may make joint faculty appointments in East Texas State University and in other institutions under its governance. The salary of a person who receives a joint appointment shall be apportioned to the appointing institutions on the basis of services rendered.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 128, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1996.