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Hon. C. H. Cavness, page 3 (V-1347)
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at each institution as well as whether those facts
constitute an offering of a degree. This office is
precluded from deciding fact issues and hence we
cannot answer your first question categorically.
Att'y Gen. Op. 0-3382 (1941).
Accompanying your request are a number of
letters from the administrative heads of institu-
tions of higher learning containing expressions with
regard to their interpretation of when a degree is
actually "offered" at their respective institutions.
From these we gather it is the ordinary practice
that prior to, or as a part of, the offering of a de-
gree there must be some action approving the degree
by the administrative and governing board of the in-
stitution. This authorization generally precedes the
actual offering of the degree by several months. af-
ter the degree is authorized, the actual courses re-
quired by the degree program are made available to
students who wish to take the courses for the purpose
of receiving the degree.
Thus it seems apparent that the mere author-
ization of the degree, standing alone, is not suffi-
cient to constitute the "offering of a degree." In
our opinion, before a degree can be considered as "of-
fered" the courses required by the degree program
must be made available to students who wish to take
the courses for the purpose of receiving the degree.
As to whether such courses were actually made avail-
able to students prior to October 1, 1950, will depend
upon the particular facts and circumstances at each
institution of higher learning. Thus, if you deter-
mine in connection with your audit of the accounts and
funds of a particular institution that there had been
authorization for a degree by the governing board and
that courses required by the degree program were ac-
tually made available to students who desired to take
the courses for the particular degree prior to October
l 1950, then we believe you would be justified in de-
termining that the degree was actually being offered
prior to October 1, 1950. Furthermore, the fact that
students with the required background had actually en-
rolled and were taking courses leading to a particular
degree prior to October 1, 1950, would be strong evi-
dence of the fact that the degree was being offered
prior to that time.C
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1347, text, February 19, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth266165/m1/3/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.