From the press release: > a local donor — a UT Dallas graduate who wishes to remain anonymous From the article: > This is starkly illustrated by comparing Te

From the press release: > a local donor — a UT Dallas graduate who wishes to remain anonymous From the article: > This is starkly illustrated by comparing Texas and Iowa. According to U.S. News and World Report, Texas, which ranks 33rd, is far surpassed in educational quality by Iowa, which ranks eighth. and later: > Think about that: White students do better in Texas than in Iowa. Black students do better in Texas. Hispanic students do better in Texas. Asian students do better in Texas. Given these facts, it is absurd for U.S. News to rank Iowa higher than Texas in terms of educational performance. So... an alumni from the University of Texas was so angry that Iowa was ranked above them in education they partnered up with the Koch brothers to fund an $840K institute at UT Dallas that would publish a study with an alternate way of doing the rankings that would put Texas above Iowa? That's some next-level rivalry right there.