President of the University of Texas at Austin
Jay Hartzell in 2019
Incumbent
Jay Hartzell
since September 23, 2020 (2020-09-23)[1]
Inaugural holderLeslie Waggener
Formation1895 (1895)
SalaryUS$1,250,000 (2020)[2]
Websitepresident.utexas.edu

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is a public university in Austin, Texas, and the flagship university of the University of Texas System. The university has been led by 30 presidents[lower-alpha 1] since the office of the president was founded in 1895.

The position did not exist when UT Austin was established in 1883. The founders of the university had decided to follow the example of the University of Virginia,[3] where Thomas Jefferson, a skeptic of central authority and bureaucracy, had prevented the establishment of such an office years before. The faculty would retain control, under the regents, through an annually selected chairman.

John William Mallet, a professor of physics, served as the first chairman of the faculty for one year, starting in 1883. Mallet was followed by William LeRoy Broun, who served only briefly. Leslie Waggener received the position in 1884, and served until 1894. Waggener subsequently served as president ad interim until his death in 1896.[4]

President Logan Wilson concurrently served as acting chancellor in 1954, until the chancellorship was abolished in September of that year. The position was re-instated in 1960, upon which Wilson left the presidency to become chancellor. In 1963, the office of the president itself was abolished. The chancellor of the University of Texas System, Harry Ransom, assumed the duties of the presidency until the position's re-establishment in 1967.[5] The 30th and current president is Jay Hartzell, having served in the position since 2020.

Presidents

Leslie Waggener
George Tayloe Winston
William Lambdin Prather
Sidney Edward Mezes
Robert Ernest Vinson
Norman Hackerman
Larry R. Faulkner
Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin
No. Name Term start[lower-alpha 2] Term end[lower-alpha 2] Notes[lower-alpha 3] Ref.
1 Leslie Waggener September 7, 1895 June 30, 1896 Interim president; president of Bethel College (1877–1883);[7] chairman of the faculty (1884–1894)[8] [9][10]
2 George Tayloe Winston July 1, 1896 September 15, 1899 President of the University of North Carolina (1891–1896);[11] president of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1899–1908)[12] [13][14]
3 William Lambdin Prather November 4, 1899 July 24, 1905 President of the Texas Bar Association (1895–1896);[15] chairman of the Board of Regents (1899–1900)[16] [17][18]
– Thomas Stalworth Henderson July 24, 1905 September 1, 1905 Acting president; member of the Texas House of Representatives (1893–1895);[19] chairman of the Board of Regents (1900–1903, 1904–1911)[20] [21]
4 David Franklin Houston September 1, 1905 September 1, 1908 President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (1902–1905);[22] chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1908–1913);[22] United States Secretary of Agriculture (1913–1920);[23] United States Secretary of the Treasury (1920–1921)[23] [24][25]
5 Sidney Edward Mezes September 1, 1908 December 15, 1914
6 William James Battle November 16, 1914 June 30, 1916 Acting president
7 Robert Ernest Vinson July 1, 1916 June 30, 1923
8 William Seneca Sutton July 1, 1923 July 31, 1924 Interim president
9 Walter Marshall William Splawn August 1, 1924 September 1, 1927
10 Harry Yandell Benedict September 1, 1927 May 10, 1937 Earned BS and MA from the university (1892, 1893);[26] dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1911–1927)[26] [27][28]
11 John William Calhoun June 1, 1937 May 31, 1939 Interim president
12 Homer Price Rainey June 1, 1939 November 1, 1944 Fired by the Board of Regents over a dispute regarding academic freedom
13 Theophilus Shickel Painter November 2, 1944 August 31, 1952 Acting president from November 1944 to May 1946
14 James Clay Dolley September 1, 1952 January 31, 1953 Acting president
15 Logan Wilson February 1, 1953 August 31, 1960 Served concurrently as acting chancellor in 1954 until the office was abolished on September 30
16 Harry Huntt Ransom September 1, 1960 May 31, 1961 Interim president
17 Joseph Royall Smiley June 1, 1961 June 30, 1963
– — July 1, 1963 November 1, 1967 Office abolished; duties assumed by chancellor Harry Ransom [29]
18 Norman Hackerman November 1, 1967 September 1, 1970 Acting president
19 Bryce Jordan July 1, 1970 July 1, 1971 Interim president
20 Stephen Hopkins Spurr July 9, 1971 September 24, 1974 Fired by the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles LeMaistre
21 Lorene Lane Rogers September 25, 1974 August 31, 1979 Interim president from September 1974 to September 1975; earned MA and PhD from the university (1946, 1948);[30] vice president (1971–1974)[31] [32][33]
22 Peter Tyrrell Flawn September 1, 1979 August 31, 1985 Vice president for academic affairs (1970–1972);[34] executive vice president (1972);[35] president of the University of Texas at San Antonio (1973–1977)[34] [36][37]
23 William H. Cunningham September 1, 1985 August 31, 1992 Dean of the College and Graduate School of Business (1983–1985);[38] chancellor of the University of Texas System (1992–2000)[38] [39][40]
24 William S. Livingston September 1, 1992 December 31, 1992 Acting president; vice president and dean of Graduate Studies (1979–1995);[41] senior vice president (1995–2007)[42] [43][44]
25 Robert M. Berdahl January 1, 1993 June 30, 1997 Dean of the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences (1981–1986);[45] chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1997–2004);[46] president of the Association of American Universities (2006–2011);[47] interim president of the University of Oregon (2011–2012)[48] [49][50]
26 Peter Tyrrell Flawn July 1, 1997 April 12, 1998 Interim president; second term as president [36][37]
27 Larry R. Faulkner April 13, 1998 January 31, 2006 Earned PhD from the university (1969);[51] dean of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1989–1994);[51] interim chancellor of the University of Texas System (2018)[52] [53][54]
28 William C. Powers Jr. February 1, 2006 June 2, 2015 Dean of the School of Law (2000–2006);[55] chair of the Association of American Universities (2013–2014)[55] [56][57]
29 Gregory L. Fenves June 3, 2015 May 31, 2020 Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering (2008–2013);[58] executive vice president and provost (2013–2015);[58] president of Emory University (2020–present)[59] [60][61]
30 Jay Hartzell June 1, 2020 – Interim president from June to September 2020; earned PhD from the university (1998);[62] dean of the McCombs School of Business (2016–2020)[62] [63][64]

Notes

  1. ↑ 29 individuals have held the office; Peter T. Flawn is counted as both the 22nd and 26th president.
  2. 1 2 Start and end dates and interim/acting titles are based on the list from the University of Texas System.[6] The dates and titles listed on the University of Texas at Austin website differ slightly.
  3. ↑ Positions are within the University of Texas at Austin unless stated.

References

  1. ↑ "Jay Hartzell named president of UT Austin". The University of Texas System. September 23, 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  2. ↑ Mekelburg, Madlin (November 19, 2020). "Jay Hartzell to make $1.25M as UT president". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  3. ↑ Berry, Margaret C. University of Texas at Austin from the Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed 19 March 2006.
  4. ↑ "Past Presidents". Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  5. ↑ Berry, Margaret C. The University of Texas: A Pictorial Account of its First Century. University of Texas Press, 1980.
  6. ↑ "Presidents of UT System Institutions". The University of Texas System. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Bethel College". TopSCHOLAR. Western Kentucky University. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  8. ↑ Battle, W. J. (April 1951). "A Concise History of the University of Texas, 1883-1950". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 54 (4): 391–411. JSTOR 30235665.
  9. ↑ "Leslie Waggener". Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  10. ↑ Battle, W. J. "Waggener, Leslie". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  11. ↑ "George Tayloe Winston (1852-1932)". The Carolina Story. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Winston, George Tayloe, 1852-1932". NC State University Libraries. North Carolina State University. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
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  14. ↑ Battle, W. J. "Winston, George Tayloe". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  15. ↑ MacLean, George E. (1905). "Sketch of the Life of William L. Prather, Vice President of the Association". Transactions and Proceedings of the National Association of State Universities in the United States of America, Volume 3. National Association of State Universities. pp. 162–164.
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  19. ↑ "Thomas Stalworth Henderson". Legislative Reference Library. Texas Legislature. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
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  23. 1 2 "David F. Houston". Federal Reserve History. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
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  26. 1 2 "Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937". Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
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  31. ↑ "Lorene Rogers Papers, [circa 1938 (1974-1979) 1986]". Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  32. ↑ "Lorene Lane Rogers". Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  33. ↑ Carranza, John (September 7, 2023). "Rogers, Lorene Katherine Lane". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  34. 1 2 Fisher, William L.; Scanlon, Bridget R. "Peter T. Flawn 1926–2007". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
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  36. 1 2 "Peter Tyrell Flawn". Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  37. 1 2 Huber, Mary (May 8, 2017). "Peter Flawn helped lead UT to national prominence". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  38. 1 2 "William Cunningham". McCombs School of Business. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
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  42. ↑ Dunbar, Wells (August 15, 2013). "Bill Livingston, Former Acting President and Voice of UT, Dies". KUT. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
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  48. ↑ "Michael Gottfredson Appointed President of the University of Oregon". University of Oregon. October 1, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
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  50. ↑ "Robert M. Berdahl". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  51. 1 2 "Larry R. Faulkner" (PDF). United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
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  54. ↑ "Larry R. Faulkner". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  55. 1 2 "UT President Powers Elected to Chair Association of American Universities". The University of Texas at Austin. October 22, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
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  58. 1 2 Watkins, Matthew (April 20, 2015). "Fenves Named Next President of UT-Austin". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  59. ↑ "About President Fenves". Office of the President. Emory University. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  60. ↑ "Gregory L. Fenves". Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  61. ↑ Najmabadi, Shannon (April 6, 2020). "UT-Austin President Greg Fenves leaving Texas flagship June 30 for Emory University". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  62. 1 2 "McCombs Business Dean Hartzell named interim president of UT Austin". The University of Texas System. April 8, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
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