1969:

U. T. at San Antonio was established in 1969 as an academic component of the University of Texas System. UTSA is one of the nation’s most innovative metropolitan universities.



The University of Texas at Dallas is a young institution with a great and challenging future. It was created in 1969 on the foundation of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest.

1972:

Founded in 1972, the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center is an institution of the health sciences: medicine, dentistry, public health, nursing, allied health and biomedical science.


1973:

The U. T. of the Permian Basin got its start in 1973 as an upper-level institution— offering junior, senior and masters level courses. In 1991, UTPB entered a new era when it became a traditional four-year university.

 

1973:

In October 1973 OPEC, in retaliation for U.S. and British support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War, began an oil embargo against certain Western nations, including the U.S. OPEC’s influence over the next decade caused the price of crude oil to climb from approximately $4 per barrel in 1973 to a high of $39 per barrel in April of 1980.