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The University of Texas at El Paso, popularly known as '''UTEP''', is a Public , Coeducational University , and it is a member of the University Of Texas System . The school is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande , in El Paso, Texas , and is the largest university in the nation with a majority Mexican-American student population. Founded in 1914 as '''The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy''', a mineshaft still exists on the mountainous, Desert campus. It is composed of buildings of Bhutanese Architecture , with massive sloping walls and overhanging roofs. In the mid-1950s, UTEP, then called '''Texas Western College''', became the first college in a Southern state to integrate its intercollegiate athletic teams. Although the campus population was less than 1% African-American , in 1966 , Basketball coach Don Haskins and his Texas Western team thrilled portions of the nation by winning the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship with an all-black starting lineup, thus breaking an unspoken barrier and transforming the history of college basketball. By 1967 , the Board of Regents authorized that the name of the college be changed from Texas Western College to its present name. Currently there are some 19,842 Students enrolled at UTEP. About 73 percent of UTEP's student population is Hispanic . UTEP is the country’s only doctoral research intensive university with a Student Body that’s predominantly Mexican American . The historic 1966 Texas Western College win over The University Of Kentucky for the NCAA basketball championship was depicted in the Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer Movie '' Glory Road '', which was released on January 13 , 2006 and in the national bestselling 2005 book "Glory Road" written by Don Haskins and Dan Wetzel . Glory Road lies between the two basketball arenas on the campus, stretching from Mesa Street to Sun Bowl Drive. Today, the institution is devoted to the ideals of access and excellence, educating the diverse population at a sprawling campus in the westernmost part of the State Of Texas along the borders with Mexico and the State Of New Mexico . Cheerleader s (orange uniforms) in a Stunt for the renaming of Glory Road, November 29, 2005. The Golddigger s ( Pompon girls — black and white uniforms) are to the front. ]] HISTORY
ACADEMICS The University of Texas at El Paso is subdivided into several colleges, each of which offers a variety of degree programs including undergraduate, graduate and some post-graduate:
UTEP offers 81 bachelor's degrees, more than 70 master's-level degrees and programs and 14 doctoral degrees. The university ranks second in federal research spending among UT System academic institutions, and in fiscal year 2006 reported $45.7 million in total research spending. Hispanic Business magazine has twice ranked UTEP as the number one graduate Engineering school for Hispanics . The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering has called the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) ''"a model for other engineering institutions who say that today's minority young people from low-income families can't succeed in a rigorous math- or science-based discipline."'' The National Science Foundation has designated UTEP as a Model Institution for excellence, one of only six in the country. UTEP is one of only 11 universities nationwide to receive a $5 million Teachers for a New Era (TNE) research grant from the Carnegie Corporation . CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE UTEP's campus is modeled after Bhutanese monasteries, or Dzong Architecture . Below are a few examples. |
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