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UT is doing it right. Why are we wasting time at Texarkana, Kingsville, and wherever the F Commerce is
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UT is doing it right. Why are we wasting time at Texarkana, Kingsville, and wherever the F Commerce is
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OP has had a hard on for the UT system for a long time. This is also a subtle attack on Sharp.
quote:Congrats I guess?
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It seems the UT system's long term goal is to have the highest ranked public university in every major Texas metro.
quote:Dude, it's in SW Houston. I'd rather be in the RGV.
UT is doing it right. Why are we wasting time at Texarkana, Kingsville, and wherever the F Commerce is
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OP has had a hard on for the UT system for a long time. This is also a subtle attack on Sharp.
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UT is doing it right. Why are we wasting time at Texarkana, Kingsville, and wherever the F Commerce is
quote:The land is in the inner loop about a miles from the Dome.quote:Dude, it's in SW Houston. I'd rather be in the RGV.
UT is doing it right. Why are we wasting time at Texarkana, Kingsville, and wherever the F Commerce is
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"We're in the midst of thinking through this strategic plan of how do we best serve the state," Young told the Houston Chronicle editorial board in response to a question about a possible Houston presence. "Stay tuned."
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It seems the UT system's long term goal is to have the highest ranked public university in every major Texas metro.
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It seems the UT system's long term goal is to have the highest ranked public university in every major Texas metro.
Uh...Rice University says hello.
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Four Texas universities Texas Tech University, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Dallas have reached a major milestone in their quests to join the top tier of the nation's colleges.
quote:The current TAMU leadership will probably want to issue A&M degrees from a Houston community college. I wouldn't get excited.
Might A&M follow suit? Michael Young didn't say No.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-M-leader-Stay-tuned-for-possible-expansion-6810037.php?t=e45e7b4b56&cmpid=twitter-premiumquote:
"We're in the midst of thinking through this strategic plan of how do we best serve the state," Young told the Houston Chronicle editorial board in response to a question about a possible Houston presence. "Stay tuned."
quote:UT Arlington enrollment tops 50,000
Enrollment of Texas-based students at the University of Texas at Arlington jumped 6 percent to a record 38,650 for the spring 2016 semester, pushing overall enrollment over 50,000 students, the university said Tuesday. The biggest gainers were the College of Engineering, now the third-largest in Texas,
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The plot of old oil land in southwest Houston where the University of Texas is planting its flag began to take shape 15 years ago.
The more than 300 acres were nearly home to several projects, including a master-planned community, hotels, shops and office space. It wasn't until last summer that another option for the land emerged.
The big land sale to UT, which sparked excitement and concern in Houston, happened almost by chance - and nearly didn't happen at all. An architect and a real estate developer spent a decade and a half buying dozens of little connecting parcels, creating one of the largest undeveloped swaths in Houston. Last year they were set to sell some of the desirable land to commercial developers when leaders of the state's largest university system made an offer.
"I would have put the odds as very low that this transaction would have happened," said John Kirksey, founder and owner of the Houston-based Kirksey Architecture and a UT alumnus who owned much of the land. "It just seemed like such a big undertaking and a long shot. It's amazing that something so fractured, that the pieces could all come back together again and then for that unified whole to be put in the hands of an institution like the University of Texas. I think it's wonderful that it was able to happen."
The deal came together quietly last summer before UT Chancellor William McRaven announced in November that he wanted to expand UT's footprint in Houston by building something "bold" and "innovative." His vague announcement caught many by surprise, and the project continues to be a tough sell to some. A group of state lawmakers last week blasted McRaven for not telling them of his plans before pulling the trigger on the land deal that will cost more than $200 million. Opponents already fear UT will steal top faculty and siphon research funding as the University of Houston strives to become a top-tier university. UH boosters have called the land purchase an "invasion."
"I would strongly have recommended that y'all send the balloon up before you did it," state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican, told McRaven at a Senate higher education committee hearing Tuesday in Austin. "No one even saw the balloon on the horizon, so obviously somebody was doing a pretty good job of not talking about that issue."
Sen. Kel Seliger, an Amarillo Republican and chairman of the committee, said the move showed a "total lack of transparency."
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A&M is starting a 4 year school on that basic model
http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-A-M-building-research-campus-on-old-air-base-7387778.php#photo-9931034
quote:They are trying to emulate the University of California system. Lot's of people care about UCLA, UC Davis, UC San Diego, etc. If you want to get techincal, those are system schools with UC Berkeley as the original.
Do people really care about what the system schools do? I sure as hell don't.
