https://www.myvetcandy.com/careerblog/2020/4/17/texas-a-amp-m-receives-approval-for-new-program-that-aims-to-increase-the-number-of-large-animal-veterinarians

https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/ttus-school-of-veterinary-medicine-complex-taking-shape-in-amarillo/

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According to Billy Breedlove, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning & Construction for the Texas Tech University System, construction of the School of Veterinary Medicine is on time and progressing as planned. The steel structure of the main academic building and school headquarters is beginning to take shape, and construction of the Mariposa Station, the large-animal facility for the school, also has begun.

Work to date on what is known as the School of Veterinary Medicine Amarillo Campus, located just to the north of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Amarillo campus, has included installation of all in-ground electrical and plumbing infrastructure, pouring concrete footings, slab on grade, utilities and erecting steel.

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https://news.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=210&Id=9817255

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Leaders at Texas A&M have been opposed to Tech's plan for a veterinary school since it was announced in 2015, believing that it duplicates the institution's efforts to expand to West Texas A&M University in Canyon, a half-hour drive from Tech's Amarillo campus, and could siphon state funds allocated for the program. " A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas," former veterinary school Dean Eleanor Green wrote in an opinion piece published in a local newspaper in February 2019.

Eight months later, however, Green announced plans to leave Texas A&M for a senior position with the Animal Policy Group, a consulting firm that promotes growth in veterinary academia by providing advice to emerging programs on how to earn accreditation from the AVMA COE. A committee at Texas A&M is conducting a national search for her replacement. Dr. John August, serving as dean in the interim, has not spoken publicly about the Texas Tech ven

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Lungblood said:

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Texas Bad Ass Tech

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Bad Ass Tech??!! Tech was put on probation for having weak cirriculum in 2007. They'll never have a vet school.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Accrediting-group-puts-Texas-Tech-on-probation-1826368.php

Texas Tech receives Reasonable Assurance of Accreditation. Que Lasitma

Aggie1 is sad

What's sad is to have two vet programs 15 miles apart from each other...

https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-releases/two-vero-faculty-hires-expand-texas-ams-veterinary-missions-in-texas-panhandle/

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The Veterinary Education, Research, & Outreach (VERO) program, a partnership between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) and West Texas A&M University (WT), has hired two new faculty to bring their extensive experience in the field and in the classroom to the students, veterinarians, livestock producers, and citizens of the Texas Panhandle.
Dr. Benjamin Newcomer, a dairy cattle expert, and Dr. Jenna Funk, an expert in beef cattle production, will support the fourth-year veterinary students who choose to participate in clinical rotations in Canyon and the surrounding areas.
"The Texas A&M University System has put its full backing behind the VERO program and these top-notch hires are evidence that we are serious about its success," said John Sharp, chancellor of The Texas A&M University System.

Newcomer will join the VERO team in November from Auburn University, where he completed a residency in internal medicine and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and, since 2013, has been a faculty member.
Board certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and the American Board of Toxicology, Newcomer also has six years of experience in private dairy practice.
The 2002 University of Florida graduate brings strengths in herd health medicine, infectious disease control, veterinary clinical instruction, and health care worker training.
Newcomer said that Texas A&M's tradition speaks for itself and made the position one that he was immediately interested in.
"There are a lot of things that attracted me to this position," Newcomer said. "Certainly, the history and tradition of Texas A&M is unrivaled and well known. They're known for producing quality veterinary graduates and the VERO program is geographically situated in a growing area where there are lots of cattle where students can get hands-on experience."

VERO Director Dr. Dee Griffin said Newcomer's expertise in dairy veterinary management will have a tremendous impact on the CVMBS' efforts in the region. He also pointed out that while many know of Texas' contribution to the beef industry, Texas is also the fifth largest dairy producing state, and 80% of all dairy produced in Texas is produced in the panhandle and the high plains.
"Dr. Newcomer is perhaps the most academically prepared clinical dairy management professor in the United States," he said. "The extremely large dairies such as we have in this region are extremely sophisticated. Dr. Newcomer also is one of the few in the United States that the college could have recruited who are capable of navigating the level of expertise required to work with dairies of this magnitude and be able to develop a dairy clinical veterinary and management program for our CVMBS students."

Dr. Jenna Funk: Griffin witnessed Funk's work ethic first hand when Funk was a student enrolled in a feeder cattle veterinary clinical skills and management summer education program, at which Funk spent 60-80 hours a week learning tasks ranging from ultrasound pregnancy exams to cleaning the water tanks.
"Dr. Funk is not only an extremely talented beef veterinarian, but she also has a love for students," he said. "The opportunities for her here are tremendous. Over 25% of all of the beef eaten in the United States comes from within a two-hour drive of our VERO facility, combining that opportunity with Dr. Funk's expertise will provide unique clinical and livestock management opportunities for our veterinary students."
An Iowa State University graduate, Funk received extensive training in beef cattle medicine at the Clay Center and as a feedlot intern, both in Nebraska. She also taught veterinary students on clinical rotations as a post-doctoral student at Iowa State.

Newcomer and Funk are among the 12-13 new hires the CVMBS plans to make in support of the fourth-year clinical rotations and the new 2+2 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program by the Texas A&M University System.

"We know the success of any academic program is built on the foundation of excellent faculty," said Dr. Walter Wendler, WT president. "We are pleased with the partnership of Texas A&M University and West Texas A&M University, supported by Chancellor John Sharp and The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Our teamwork is attractive to high-caliber people. These programs will serve the Texas Panhandle with distinction because of the faculty."

Fourth-year clinical rotations in the Texas Panhandle coordinated at the VERO facility include feedlots, dairies, and rural veterinary practices, through which students can get hands-on experience working in areas in which there is a critical need for veterinarians. Announced in September 2019, the 2+2 DVM program will allow veterinary students to complete their first and second years at the VERO facility, before completing the third and part of their fourth years at the CVMBS in College Station; the first cohort of up to 18 students participating in the 2+2 program will begin classes at VERO in the fall of 2021.

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How long do you think it will take for the A&M program at WTA&M and the fledgling TTech program to meld into a single entity? It is crazy to have two competing programs doing the same thing founded for the same goals and purposes 15 miles apart.

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What's sad is to have two vet programs 15 miles apart from each other...

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I agree. You should be supporting Tech's program.

Ha ha ha - nice one...

Duplicate funding is criminal...
TT program will never be a vet doctoral program without a real animal teaching hospital - which already exists in College Station. And the city and diners will never fund. The TT program is akin to an undergraduate preparatory program - which duplicates the already existing at WTA&M in Canyon -15 miles away.

As a person who grew up in Amarillo I appreciate what TT is doing at the Medical Center complex but the vet thing is just a duplication and waste of state funds.

It is, and will continue to be, a clown program.

The West Texas politicians will subsidize and carry that program for decades.

So has the Tard vet school released a new venereal disease in cows, horses and pigs that spreads like wildfire and threatens the notional food supply yet??