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UT Permian Basin was created by the legislature in 1969 as an upper-level school for juniors, seniors and graduate students. Ground was broken in Odessa in April 1972, and the first classes met in 1973. The campus is young, but it holds a presidential museum and a near full-size limestone copy of Stonehenge that lines up with the West Texas sunrise. This short walk connects the original academic building, the library and its bronze buffalo, a memorial, and the stone circle.
University of Texas Permian Basin is a public college or university in Odessa, Ector County. It is one of 2 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Ector County.
The site sits at 31.8891, -102.3301 near Odessa. The nearest cataloged historic site is Buffalo Wallow, Old (historical marker), about 0.6 miles away. Others within a short drive include Emmet V. Headlee, M.D., Henderson, Homer Robert, and Comanche War Trail.
The Texas Legislature authorized a University of Texas campus for the Permian Basin in 1969 as an experiment in upper-level education, admitting only juniors, seniors and master's students. B. H. Amstead was named first president in 1970, and classes opened in temporary buildings in the fall of 1973 with about 1,100 students. Governor Ann Richards signed legislation in 1991 converting the school into a four-year university, and its first freshman class arrived that fall. Growth since 2000 brought the J. Conrad Dunagan Library and Lecture Center, a Science and Technology Complex completed in 2011, the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center in Midland, and new engineering and kinesiology buildings. The university shortened its name in 2021 from "The University of Texas of the Permian Basin" to "The University of Texas Permian Basin," and its Falcons now compete in NCAA Division II. Visitors know the Odessa campus for its near-life-size Stonehenge replica beside the Visual Arts Studios.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgtshaonline.orgonline.utpb.eduutpb.edu
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