Bill would make UT-Austin center formerly known as Liberty Institute into its own college

Students walk through campus at the University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 25, 2021. (Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune)

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A Texas lawmaker has filed legislation that would turn the Civitas Institute — a center that faculty have criticized as politically motivated because it was originally conceived with the help of conservative donors and state lawmakers — into a formal college at the University of Texas at Austin.