July 26, 2002
Legal Opinion Prompts U. of Texas to Drop Fee
A controversial new student "infrastructure fee" at the University of Texas at Austin can be spent on building-maintenance costs but not on new construction, as was originally planned, the state's attorney general said in an opinion issued this month. As a result, the university decided to drop the fee.
Faced with a $150-million deficit by 2006 at the Austin campus, the university system's Board of Regents had approved the $300-per-student annual fee in January. Officials said revenue
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