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[Bootz]

Really? Whole campuses and universities?

Just give 'em away?

Are you referring to this:

Worldwide Church of God

During the 1950s, Big Sandy [population 1,288] became linked to a religious movement that would greatly influence the community for four decades. Local resident Buck Hammer was a member of the Radio Church of God, (which later became known as the Worldwide Church of God [WCG]) a California-based, Sabbatarian movement headed by radio evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong. Hammer donated a small parcel of land (less than 10 acres) to the church, which in turn built a meeting hall and began holding annual church conventions there by the middle 1950s. The church in subsequent years bought hundreds more acres adjacent to the original small area donated by Buck Hammer. Thousands of church members converged on Big Sandy and surrounding communities for the week-long Feast of Tabernacles each year, creating a significant economic impact. In the mid-1960s Armstrong developed more of the property and established a second campus of Ambassador College, the original campus of which continued to operate at the church's headquarters facility in Pasadena, California. The presence of the college, along with the annual convention operation, influenced hundreds of church members to relocate to Big Sandy and the surrounding area over the years. Although Ambassador ceased operations in 1997, many families once affiliated with it and the church chose to remain in the Big Sandy area.

In March 2000, the campus was sold and became the International ALERT Academy, home of the Air Land Emergency Resource Team (ALERT), a Christian program training young men in disaster relief and emergency services. The Academy also serves as a camp and conference center, and holds four-week summer programs for boys and girls. ALERT is affiliated with evangelical minister Bill Gothard.

Not sure what that has to do with a $9 billion high-tech facility in Austin.

And the state didn't have anything to do with the campus, which appears to have been private from the start

But interesting to note that the WCG was California based.

Kinda like the current Church of California.