I wouldnt be surprised… theyre partnered with Houston Methodist and have the buildings in the medical center…
They are doing more than us. Why wont anyone sign a petition to stop it?
This is such b.s. They can’t stand that our lowly school has a medical school in Houston and they don’t. Rather than the state give A&M money to start another med school in Houston, they should give that money to the UH med school to expand. This is our city. The Aggies tried to do the same thing with a law school in Houston. I hope we can put a stop to this.
EnMed has existed for a while y’all, just about the same time UH did. This isn’t a political move, it’s engineering medicine and classes have graduated. It’s a pathway for engineers to get in.
I don’t see the big deal and I think it’ll remain small/niche.
Well, it seems as if A&M found thier niche medical school for Houston which is similar to what UH did.
Unfortunately, the state will approve it since they have the Texas legislature behind them and PUF money.
The way I read that article the school will be a component of the A&M System not a component of their flagship university,
Our medical school is part of our university.
I think there are too many “systems” in Texas. All the systems do is establish their own political Bureaucracies.
My shirts say Houston not Houston System.
I went to a UH alumni event this week I got the impression that losing Victoria was the best thing that happened to us.
Is this because there is no ROI or real value added as far as branding that Victoria added to UH?
To be honest, there would be 20 other schools before even thinking about going to UH-Victoria
currently all of the medical components of the aggy system are under the administration of college station and count in their metrics
that is the Bryan medical school, the lerma derma erma Rangel pharmacy school in Kingsville, the dallas Baylor College of Dentistry, and any other part of the medical school
and even with independent accreditation there are universities that have two colleges of medicine including Rutgers and South Carolina and Michigan State has an MD and a DO college…all of the other aggy medical infrastructure in Houston is under College Station so I see little chance this would be in the “system” and not under College Station
Out city needs more trauma centers, not more research.
Did we really lose UH-Victoria? Sorry for the question?!
Edit: I just saw that. What are the reasons?
area leaders were upset that the UH System would not take some “free land” on the edge of town to build a new campus from scratch…that died down and then the UH System made sure to drive them away by taking their nursing program from them and then kicking their programs out of the Sugarland System Center
it was the correct decision to say no to the land and to build the campus new because the cost was not worth it for the enrollment and really it was just some connected developers in the area looking to bump the value of their land…but the theft of the nursing program and kicking their programs out of Sugarland was uncalled for and they should have left because of that
the UH System treats the other member universities worse than the aggy system treats campuses outside of college station…UHV had shopped themselves in the past after the refusal to take the land and build the new campus, but no one was interested at the time
as bad at the aggy system treats their members this is still probably better for UHV than being in the UH System
UH system treats UHD and UHCL much better than UH treated UHV. I’d say UHD is a much more respected school than any of Texas A&M’s system schools except maybe PVA&M.
not a chance
TAMU-CC, Kingsville, West Texas A&M, Tarleton, Laredo, and East Texas A&M would be better schools than UHD
TAMU-CC is about to become eligible for TUF funding
and UHCL is treated like crap…look at the history of UTD and then what the intentions of it were when it was transferred to be a university and how much it still interacts with the technology sector in dallas along with their biosciences…then look at what the history of UHCL is and what it was suppose to accomplish and how it was suppose to work with NASA and then look at the fact that it has zero engineering programs, no aerospace program, no electrical engineering, no astrophysics, and really nothing at all to do woth NASA currently
I’m looking at the UHCL website now, they list aerospace engineering bs, computer engineering bs/ms, mechanical engineering bs, software engineering ms, systems engineering ms all under the department of engineering in the college of sciences and engineering.
you are correct, but it is still a single department with areas of emphasis which is light years apart from UTD
it looks like those would have started in about 2016 not long after their downward expansion approval…but I have looked at their site since then and missed they had those programs
but still in 2024 they did slightly over $5 million in research and development which is not even a blip on the radar
they should be much further along than they currently are, but the UH System only looks out for the main campus
the only thing they have “done” for UHD is let them keep the name so that people that graduate from there can put they went to “UH” on their resume and conveniently leave the D off
they should have renamed it a number of years back when that popped up or really what they should do is hand it and UHCL off to The Texas State System and let UH be a stand alone university with no system…and probably merge TSU and UHD under a single administration (with a new name), hand off a part of the TSU campus to UH and sell off the rest for redevelopment
but all of that would save too much money and make too much sense and people that cling to history (or poor results) would get upset along with the “our town” types
Wow. Seems like you’ve got it all figured out.
it is a lot better than what is going on now
Why can’t a university build a trauma center and really help the city?
I’m not a medical administrator. I really don’t know much about it.
