TEXAS (1080 KRLD)- Move over Matthew McConaughey, another celebrity is joining the faculty at UT-Austin.
Texas jewelry mogul Kendra Scott has joined the staff at the University of Texas at Austin.
She's teaching a Women in Entrepreneurship class designed for women who would like to launch their own business someday.
Scott started her company with just $500 dollars out of a bedroom in her home back in 2002 and she has grown her company into a billion dollar business.
Her business now has over 2,000 employees and more than 100 stand-alone stores.
Her jewelry has made Oprah's list of favorite things.
Scott says she is honored to join the university as a professor of practice.
The school's other celebrity professor is actor Matthew McConaughey who teachers a film production class at the Moody College of Communication.