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67-560: The 2014–15 school year was the last season for UTPA as an institution. During summer 2015, UTPA merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville to create the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The University of Texas System stated in July 2014 that "the UTPA athletics program will be converted into the athletics program at UTRGV". On November 5, 2014, UTRGV's new nickname of Vaqueros

134-457: A caricature and racial stereotype of Mexican, Latino, Chicano, and Hispanic culture. On January 29, 2015 Texas Representative Terry Canales proposed Texas House Bill 901 which called for postponement of the naming of the new mascot. On August 31, 2015, UTB and UTPA were officially dissolved and changed to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The name of the institution evolved over

201-468: A former Holiday Inn hotel complex, former condominiums, the Amigoland Mall , and many historic buildings of downtown Brownsville. The university continues to expand, recently purchasing substantial acreage east of Fort Brown. UTB was home to several academic centers and programs: The Student Government Association at UTB hosts the officers of the student body. The SGA runs a three-branch system, with

268-547: A four-year public school to move upward in athletic classification, including FCS to FBS. The legislative committee that must review the move did not meet until November 5, after the state's gubernatorial election . The committee unanimously approved JMU's move from FCS to FBS, and the Sun Belt move was officially announced on November 6. The original Action Network report also stated that the two full non-football SBC members, Little Rock and UT Arlington, would no longer be members of

335-547: A member of the non-football West Coast Conference , effective in 2023. The American in turn responded on October 21 by adding six schools from Conference USA (C-USA), with 2023 as the most likely entry date. Following this move, rumors began to circulate that the Sun Belt was planning to take on another three members (the University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM), Marshall University , and former Sun Belt member Old Dominion University ) from C-USA, likely in response to that conference's remaining teams worried of

402-627: A men's soccer affiliate when that school joined the Big 12 Conference in 2023. In men's soccer, the conference is not a "mid-major" conference, but a "power" conference due to the quasi-alliance of the Big 12 and SEC schools, plus the presence of a recent national champion in Marshall. On June 6, the SBC presidents & chancellors approved adding two new women's sports, beach volleyball and swimming & diving, no later than

469-520: A partnership with Pan-American University, later known as the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA). The partnership allowed Pan-American University to establish a four-year university in Brownsville. The resulting independent institution was referred to as Pan American University at Brownsville. In 1989, Pan American University joined the University of Texas System , creating the University of Texas Pan-American at Brownsville (UTPA-B). Brownsville sought

536-456: A proposal to merge UTB, the University of Texas–Pan American , and a planned medical school into one regional institution. On December 12, 2013, the UT Board of Regents voted to name the new university The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley . On November 5, 2014, UTRGV's new nickname of Vaqueros was announced. Immediately, Students on both Campuses began protests objecting to the new name as

603-509: A university directly under the UT System and in 1991 the University of Texas Pan-American at Brownsville became the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB). After UTB was created, a partnership was established between UTB and TSC, allowing TSC students to seamlessly transition to the four year University without reapplying. The university has academic colleges including business, education, liberal arts and nursing. UTB-TSC's funding came from both

670-505: Is Old Dominion, which won one title in women's basketball and five in the non-SBC sport of field hockey during its first conference tenure from 1982 to 1991. Six other current members have won NCAA Division I team championships prior to joining the conference. Coastal Carolina won its only D-I national title on the day before it officially joined the SBC, while representing the Big South Conference. See also: List of NCAA schools with

737-524: The Mid-American Conference ). Additionally, it was announced that Kentucky , South Carolina , and West Virginia would join as men's soccer affiliate members beginning in fall 2022, giving the conference an inaugural soccer membership of 9. Kentucky and South Carolina were previously also affiliated with C-USA, while West Virginia was affiliated with the MAC. The SBC later announced it would add UCF as

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804-570: The NBA . UTPA baseball squad placed 4th in the 1971 College World Series under Coach Al Ogletree . The program won several doubles NAIA championships from 1959 through 1962 under Coach Don Russell, who himself captured several championships while playing and coaching the team. After becoming a four-year college in 1952, the Broncs were members of the NAIA until the 1962–63 season. The Broncs were an independent in

871-837: The Southern Conference on July 1, 2014. Both schools had been very successful within the Football Championship Subdivision, combining to win nine national championships since 1985. They upgraded to the Football Bowl Subdivision, and were eligible for Sun Belt conference championships in 2014, but were not postseason-eligible in football until 2015. The Sun Belt also granted football-only invites to Idaho and New Mexico State on March 28, 2013. Idaho and New Mexico State were both former Sun Belt members (Idaho for football only, New Mexico State for all sports) from 2001 to 2005. The large number of defections from

938-635: The Southland Conference in 2013.) On April 9, 2012, Georgia State, one of the founding members of the Sun Belt Conference, announced that it would be returning to the conference as a full member in 2013. As part of the move, the football program began a transition from FCS to FBS in the 2012 season; it played a full Sun Belt schedule as a "transitional" FBS member in 2013, and became a full FBS member, with bowl eligibility, in 2014. On May 2, 2012, Texas State University announced it would leave

1005-871: The Sting Radio . The Texas–Brownsville (UTB) athletic teams were called the Ocelots (formerly known as the Scorpions until after 2011–12 the school year). The university was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) from 2006–07 to 2014–15. UTB competed in seven intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports included baseball, cross country, golf and soccer; while women's sports include cross country, golf, soccer and volleyball. The UTB Ocelots women's volleyball team

1072-662: The Sun Belt Championship game . Following the July 30, 2021 announcement of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma both moving from the Big 12 Conference to the Southeastern Conference , the world of college athletics faced the prospect of realignment once again. The Big 12 responded on September 10 by adding three schools from the American Athletic Conference (The American) and BYU , an FBS independent and otherwise

1139-487: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte , and the University of South Florida . Over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University , Old Dominion University , the University of Alabama at Birmingham , and Virginia Commonwealth University . New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the conference did not deem suitable for conference competition. New Orleans competed as an independent before joining

1206-466: The WAC after just one year and join the Sun Belt in July 2013 to begin play for the 2013–14 academic year. At the press conference to announce Texas State's addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference. On May 25, 2012, the conference announced that the University of Texas at Arlington (a non-football member) had accepted an invitation to join

1273-583: The WAC forced that conference to drop football after the 2012 season. Idaho and New Mexico State were the only remaining WAC members that sponsored football, and competed as FBS independents for the 2013 season before competing in the Sun Belt in 2014. Idaho is located by far the farthest away from the other Sun Belt conference members, but it was rejected by the Mountain West Conference , leaving it with no other choice. On September 1, 2015, Coastal Carolina University accepted an invitation to join

1340-547: The 1963 NAIA national men's basketball championship under Coach Sam Williams. Lucious Jackson a/k/a Luscious "Luke" Jackson was one of the players on that championship team. Jackson was selected 4th overall during the 1964 NBA draft. He was selected to the 1964–65 NBA All-Rookie Team and played in the NBA All-Star Game that same year. He played his entire career with the Philadelphia 76ers . The basketball program, during

1407-708: The 1979–80 season when the team was a member of the Trans-America Athletic Conference and returned to independent status until 1986–87. UTPA joined the American South Conference as a charter member in 1987 and remained a member until the American South Conference merged with the Sun Belt Conference in 1991. The Broncs left the Sun Belt Conference at the end of the 1997–98 season and returned to independent status. In 2008 it

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1474-570: The 2000–01 academic year. The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when the league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State University and the University of North Texas and former Ohio Valley Conference member (an FBS Independent on football) Middle Tennessee State University as full members (all three of them joined a year earlier for all sports in the 2000-01 school year) and added FBS Independent University of Louisiana at Monroe and Big West member University of Idaho as football-only members. These new members gave

1541-482: The 2005–06 academic year. In 2005, Florida Atlantic became a football-only member before joining for all sports in the 2006-07 academic year. In 2006, Louisiana–Monroe joined the conference as an all-sports full member when the Warhawks left their former home, the Southland Conference . Longtime Sun Belt member Western Kentucky joined the Sun Belt's football conference in 2009 after its board of regents voted to upgrade

1608-522: The 2022 expansion, with the new dividing line being the Alabama–Georgia border. The winner of each division will meet in the Sun Belt Championship game. Since the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS season, the Sun Belt Conference has held a football championship game. As of the 2022–23 NCAA football bowl games , the Sun Belt Conference had tie-ins with the following bowl games: † The Camellia Bowl

1675-435: The 2023–24 school year. They also announced that the conference would explore adding another women's sport, field hockey, at an undetermined future date. On January 18, 2023, the SBC officially announced that its beach volleyball league would launch that spring, with the four full members sponsoring the sport joined by Charleston , Mercer , UNC Wilmington , and Stephen F. Austin as affiliate members. On August 17, 2023,

1742-506: The Division I level. During the 1980–81 season, Pan American earned a berth to the 1981 National Invitation Tournament . The Broncs lost to the 1981 NIT champs, the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane . The basketball program was later coached by Lon Kruger , who later went on to coach at Kansas State , Florida , Illinois , UNLV , and Oklahoma . He also coached the Atlanta Hawks of

1809-689: The SBC officially announced the return of women's swimming and diving as a sponsored sport.  Full members (all sports)   Full members (non-football)   Associate members (football-only)   Associate members (other)  Other Conference Other Conference In addition to the five Sun Belt commissioners, three future league leaders served on the Sun Belt staff prior to becoming conference commissioners, including Doug Elgin (Missouri Valley), John Iamarino (Northeast, Southern), and Tom Burnett (Southland). On October 12, 2011, ESPN reported that Wright Waters would retire, effective July 1, 2012. On February 15, 2012, Karl Benson

1876-643: The Sun Belt Conference sponsors championship competition in nine men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The most recent change to sports sponsorship was the reinstatement of women's swimming & diving in 2023–24. When Marshall was formally introduced as an incoming Sun Belt member, SBC commissioner Keith Gill also announced that the conference would reinstate men's soccer once all new members joined. Men's soccer resumed play in 2022–23 with six full members joined by three associates. Beach volleyball started play with eight members, evenly divided between full members and associates. Member-by-member sponsorship of

1943-645: The Sun Belt Conference. The university joined in all sports except for football starting July 1, 2016, with football joining in 2017. The conference announced on March 1, 2016, that the affiliation agreement with Idaho and New Mexico State would not be extended past the 2017 season. The conference announced that beginning in 2018, the conference (10 teams) would be divided into two divisions for football: East: Appalachian State , Coastal Carolina , Georgia Southern , Georgia State , and Troy ; West: Arkansas State , Louisiana , Louisiana–Monroe , South Alabama , and Texas State . The winner of each division will meet in

2010-478: The Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The 14 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed across the Southern United States . The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976, with the University of New Orleans , the University of South Alabama , Georgia State University , Jacksonville University ,

2077-538: The Sun Belt in July 2022. They claimed to have notified C-USA of their plans in December 2021, apparently seeking to negotiate a 2022 exit. C-USA had indicated in late January 2022 that it expected the three schools to remain in that league through the 2022–23 school year. Marshall escalated the situation by filing suit against C-USA in its local court in an attempt to force a 2022 move. On March 29, Conference USA agreed to let Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss move to

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2144-507: The Sun Belt seven football playing members in their first season, as Arkansas State and Louisiana were already full members which sponsored football. Another Big West school, Utah State University , was added as a football-only member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho and New Mexico State for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). In 2004, Troy University became a football-only member before joining for all sports in

2211-499: The Sun Belt starting July 1, 2022. On April 6, with the entrance of three new men's soccer-sponsoring schools in James Madison, Marshall, and Old Dominion, the Sun Belt announced that men's soccer would be reinstated as a sponsored sport. The three aforementioned programs joined current Sun Belt members Coastal Carolina (previously affiliates with Conference USA) as well as Georgia State and Georgia Southern (previously affiliates with

2278-537: The Sun Belt was left with ten full members and only eight members that sponsor football (the minimum number required for a conference to sponsor football at the FBS level) for the 2013 season. Appalachian State University accepted an invitation on March 27, 2013 to join the Sun Belt effective July 1, 2014. Georgia Southern University accepted a similar Sun Belt invitation at the same time as Appalachian State. Appalachian State and Georgia Southern both joined for all sports from

2345-590: The UT Brownsville merged with UT–Pan American , to form The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley . Texas Southmost College (TSC) was established in 1926 under the name "The Junior College of the Lower Rio Grande Valley." It admitted its first class on September 21 of that same year. In 1931, its name was changed to "Brownsville Junior College." In 1950, the institution was given the name, Texas Southmost College. In 1973, Texas Southmost College formed

2412-468: The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted to accept an invitation for Little Rock to join the Ohio Valley Conference , and UT Arlington, which had been a Western Athletic Conference member in the 2012–13 school year , announced its return to that conference on January 21, 2022. Shortly thereafter, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss announced that they planned to leave C-USA for

2479-479: The University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ), the University of Texas–Pan American (now merged into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ), New Orleans (re-joined), Lamar University , and the University of Central Florida . Although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name. In 1991, the league first began to explore

2546-483: The athletic program in 2014, and men's soccer will follow when UTRGV is created in 2015. University of Texas at Brownsville The University of Texas at Brownsville (abbreviated as UTB and formerly known as the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College [UTB/TSC]) was an educational institution located in Brownsville, Texas . The university was on the land once occupied by Fort Brown . It

2613-643: The college tax district as well as the State of Texas. After failure to pass a 2002 multimillion-dollar bond, the TSC tax district voters successfully passed a $ 68 million bond issue to construct additional classrooms ($ 28 million), additional library space ($ 14 million), Workforce Training Classrooms ($ 17 million), Center for Early Childhood Studies ($ 4 million), and Center for Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Disease ($ 5 million). Juliet V. García served as UTB-TSC President from 1991 to 2011; Garcia

2680-537: The conference after the 2022–23 school year. Initial plans were for James Madison to compete as a de facto Sun Belt affiliate in sports other than football and men's soccer during the 2022–23 season. However, those plans would eventually change, with JMU and the SBC jointly announcing on February 2, 2022 that JMU would become a full SBC member, including football, in 2022–23. By the end of January 2022, both non-football members would announce their departures for other conferences, effective that July. On December 8, 2021,

2747-432: The conference and would become a full member by 2013. On May 4, 2012, FIU and North Texas announced that they would be leaving the Sun Belt for Conference USA on July 1, 2013 as part of a Conference USA expansion effort involving four other schools. On November 29, 2012, Florida Atlantic and Middle Tennessee State announced that they would also leave the Sun Belt for Conference USA. The move for Florida Atlantic and MTSU

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2814-427: The conference folding. These moves would help to establish the market areas for the Sun Belt and The American, which cover similar geographic footprints. The American would now have most of its members in metropolitan areas, while the Sun Belt would instead have its members in smaller college towns . On October 22, The Action Network reported that Southern Miss had been accepted as a new Sun Belt member, with 2023 as

2881-540: The conference's teams, and have been bracketed in a semi-stepladder format. The bottom four seeds play in the first round; seed 5 through 10 receive byes to the second round, and the top 4 seeds to the quarterfinals. All rounds are held in Pensacola, Florida at Pensacola Bay Center since 2022. Winners of the tournaments earn automatic bids to their respective NCAA Division I basketball tournament. The Sun Belt Conference has sponsored an annual baseball tournament to determine

2948-497: The conference. Up until 2009, the conference only had a contract with one bowl, the New Orleans Bowl . Following the Sun Belt's improved football success and geographical membership changes, other bowls began to sign contracts with the Sun Belt Conference. As of October 2021 , the conference had seven bowl game tie-ins ( Cure , Boca Raton , LendingTree , New Orleans , Myrtle Beach , Frisco , and Camellia ) Throughout

3015-427: The day after Marshall named its next president, both the Sun Belt and Marshall issued tweets announcing that school's entry; a formal announcement followed the next day and an introductory press conference was held on November 1. As for James Madison, its board met on October 29 to discuss a potential Sun Belt invitation, but its timeline was also affected by a Virginia state law that requires legislative approval for

3082-924: The executive board consisting of the Student Body Officers, the Legislative Board consisting of the Student Senate, and the Judicial Board consisting of the Chief and Associate Justices. The university recognized more than 50 but less than 100 student organizations. In addition, it supported the Student Organization Council, an official student governance organization that represent student interests to faculty, and administrators. Sorority Students expressed their opinions in and outside of class through periodicals including The Collegian and

3149-522: The first year of NAIA membership. From the 1953–54 season to the 1961–62 season, the teams were members of the Big State Conference. In 1962–63, the team had a dual membership in the NAIA and NCAA Division II . The Broncs began transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1965–66 with the tennis team. The men's basketball began its transition in 1968–69. Broncs men's basketball participated as an Independent until

3216-405: The idea of sponsoring football. Central Florida left the league following the 1991–92 academic year due to a dispute over television rights, among other reasons. Lamar, Texas–Pan American, and Jacksonville departed at the end of the 1997–98 academic year. Florida International University joined the Sun Belt in 1998, and the University of Denver was added in 1999. Louisiana Tech departed after

3283-477: The likely entry date. The report also stated that the Sun Belt would add three more members—the aforementioned Marshall and Old Dominion, plus James Madison University , a member of the FCS Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). Southern Miss and Old Dominion were respectively announced as incoming members on October 26 and 27. At the time, both were to join no later than 2023. On October 29,

3350-443: The mid-1970s was coached by Abe Lemons . Under Lemons, the program had very successful seasons but, lamentably, failed to get invited to any NCAA tournaments. Coach Lemons was later hired away by the University of Texas at Austin . Upon Lemons' departure to the University of Texas at Austin, Bill White was named the head basketball coach. While at Pan American, Coach White led the Broncs to their first post-season tournament play at

3417-434: The most NCAA Division I championships , List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships , and NCAA Division I FBS Conferences For more information see Sun Belt Conference football . For the current season, see 2024 Sun Belt Conference football season . The Sun Belt first began sponsoring football in 2001. It originally consisted of seven football playing schools, three of which are still members of

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3484-522: The nation. In 2010, they placed second in the Final Four of College Chess , which they hosted. 25°53′57″N 97°29′30″W  /  25.899143°N 97.491544°W  / 25.899143; -97.491544 Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference ( SBC ) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA 's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference,

3551-415: The newly formed American South Conference in 1987. After the 1990–91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt, except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, and Jacksonville, departed for other conferences. The Sun Belt, including incoming member the University of Arkansas at Little Rock , then merged with the American South Conference , made up of Arkansas State University , Louisiana Tech University ,

3618-401: The nine men's SBC sports for the 2023–24 academic year. Member-by-member sponsorship of the 11 women's SBC sports for the 2024–25 academic year. "RS" is regular season, "T" is tournament. Championships from the previous academic year are flagged with the calendar year in which the most recent season or tournament ended. The only school to have won a national title while an SBC member

3685-516: The school's football program to Division I FBS . On November 11, 2009, New Orleans announced it was investigating a move from Division I to the NCAA's Division III . In order to maintain athletic scholarships, UNO instead opted for entry into Division II . On April 20, 2011, UNO officially received transition approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. (UNO later decided to remain in Division I, and joined

3752-466: The southern part of Brownsville, Texas , the part closest to the border with Mexico . A resaca, or oxbow lake, flows through the heart of the growing landscape. The university's unique architecture plays off the campus's rich history in Fort Brown . Many of the oldest buildings on campus remain from the old U.S. Army outpost. The university has also acquired many buildings in the surrounding area, including

3819-523: The years, the conference has experienced flux in membership changes, similar to many other FBS conferences. The conference announced that beginning in 2018, the conference (10 teams after the departure of Idaho and New Mexico State ) would be divided into two divisions for football: East: Appalachian State , Coastal Carolina , Georgia Southern , Georgia State , and Troy ; West: Arkansas State , Louisiana , Louisiana–Monroe , South Alabama , and Texas State . The divisional alignments changed again with

3886-519: The years: Until the fall of 2011, UT Brownsville had open admissions, meaning prospective students had no admissions criteria. In August 2011 the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved new admission standards for UT Brownsville, and awaited the approval of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . The restricted UT Brownsville admissions began in the fall of 2013. UTB's campus sat on 524 acres (2.3 km ) of land in

3953-512: Was a member of the University of Texas System . The institution was formed from a 1991 partnership between the two-year Texas Southmost College and University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. The partnership ended in 2011 as UTB became a standalone University of Texas institution, and Texas Southmost College returned to being an independent community college. UTB itself offered baccalaureate and graduate degrees in liberal arts, sciences, education, business, and professional programs. In 2015,

4020-502: Was announced that the Broncs would be charter members of the previously football-only Great West Conference when it began all-sports play in 2008. During the fall of 2008, the UTPA Cross Country team was the first to win a Great West Conference team title. UTPA exited Great West Conference after the 2012–2013 season. The UTPA Broncs were one of the newest members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Women's soccer returned to

4087-456: Was announced. Almost immediately, students on both campuses began objecting to the new name as a caricature and racial stereotype of Mexican, Latino, Chicano, and Hispanic culture. Two days after the new mascot was approved, the UTPA student government passed a resolution in opposition, and three days later, hundreds of students rallied on the Edinburg campus to protest the new name. However, the name

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4154-428: Was hired as the new commissioner of the Sun Belt, after having been the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference for 17 years. Waters would later move his departure date to March 15, allowing Benson to take over at that time. Keith Gill was named the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference on March 18, 2019. He is the first African American to lead any FBS conference. As of the current 2023–24 school year,

4221-464: Was kept. The University of Texas–Pan American sponsored teams in seven men's and eight women's NCAA sanctioned sports, with women's soccer as the last addition in 2014. Note that the NCAA classifies indoor and outdoor track and field as separate sports. However, when determining scholarship limits, it combines both forms of track and field with cross country. UTPA, then Pan American College, won

4288-470: Was later renamed the Salute to Veterans Bowl . Football rivalries involving Sun Belt teams include: For the upcoming season, see 2024–25 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball season . This list goes through the 2021–22 season. This list goes through the 2022–23 season. Since the 2022–23 season, the Sun Belt Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments, held in early March, have involved all 14 of

4355-510: Was originally scheduled to take place in 2014; however, the two schools announced on January 28, 2013 that they would leave for Conference USA a year early, departing on July 1, 2013 with FIU and North Texas. Western Kentucky also accepted an invitation to join Conference USA on April 1, 2013, and departed from the Sun Belt on July 1, 2014. These moves depleted the Sun Belt and made the need to expand their membership more urgent than ever, as

4422-473: Was ranked #18 in the NAIA, but lost the standing after a bad 2008 season. In 2009, under new head coach Todd Lowery, formerly of National American University , the Scorpions began to shine again, achieving a #12 ranking in the NAIA. In December 2011, the UTB volleyball team won its first national championship. The University of Texas at Brownsville was widely regarded for having one of the strongest chess programs in

4489-603: Was the first Hispanic woman to be the president of a college or university in the United States. On November 10, 2010, the University of Texas System Board of Regents voted to end the University of Texas at Brownsville's educational partnership with Texas Southmost College. On February 17, 2011, the TSC Board of Trustees voted 4–3 to separate from UTB. On December 6, 2012, the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System approved

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