Did we get reimbursed with interest?
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After we stole their nursing program, I guess we didnât need them anymore.
Reading the spin on this makes me laugh.
Iâm pretty familiar with how A&M system schools get treated, and the Victoria people are going to be disappointed.
I donât believe that UH really set this in motion, though itâs pretty clear that we didnât put up the same fight as in the past. The A&M push has always come from a group of Victoria locals who have the ear of some representatives.
Growth prospects in Victoria really donât have much of a catalyst. Thereâs been a lot of expansion and hiring at Formosa down in Point Comfort, but thatâs not going to kick-start Victoria to a large degree. But there is an opportunity to grow the school there with the right focus and approach, and UH didnât seem to terribly interested in that.
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It appears that UH shifted its focus to Sugar Land. Lot of land to fill out there, and the local population base is growing fast.
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A&M wonât want a satellite campus to be very successful. The flagship wants to be prominent over satellite campuses. If a school wants to really grow then they go on their own. The name of a school helps if they are independent. Texas st hit a home run with their name and I would have been good if we picked it but Houston as an independent is good also. I guess weâre like Miami , Pitt, Louisville or auburn in name recognition as schools that bare the city name.
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If thatâs really whatâs behind it, then our admin is displaying some short-sightedness.
I suspect itâs more about the growth potential in Victoria and associated costs. They need more space to expand, and some Aggie shills claim that theyâll donate land to make that happen if the school moves into the A&M system. Without a donation, the expansion would be cost-prohibitive.
I donât know enough about UH-Victoria to even have an opinion.
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I mean victoria is a lot closer to corpus? If that is the logic.
Is victoria independent like lake?
I donât understand your questions. Victoria is probably the same distance to Sugar Land that it is to Corpus, but it doesnât make sense for the UH system to voluntarily cede a location to the A&M system unless itâs totally unworkable. Beyond that, A&M has several system campuses that are already closer to Victoria than the main UH campus - Corpus, Kingsville, and San Antonio.
Each of the UH system universities are âstand-aloneâ but theyâre all under the control of the system BOR and Chancellor.
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Supposedly aggies are getting $25million from the state for Victoria.
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced the university has received $25 million in the new state budget to help expand academic programs and services for the region.
âThis is a transformational moment for Victoria and for South Texas,â Sharp said. âThe people of this region deserve a world-class regional university, and thatâs exactly what weâre going to help build.â
Really adds insult to injury. Not money from the PUF but directly from the state.
âincluding new programs in engineering and agribusiness that align with the regionâs petrochemical, manufacturing, and agricultural industriesâ
I bet this more than anything, UH does not fill the needs of the area.
But thatâs the thing - if A&M offers that at other schools, theyâre less than 90 minutes away.
I suspect that UH didnât want to expend the funds to create those programs, and the State was willing to just give A&M $25MM to make it happen. In other words, we got squeezed out.
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This is good self-awareness. Next step on the journey may be to let that realization override the urge to post.
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You were dealing with fanboys and theyâll accept a lesser role just to be in the room with them
UH saves cause they were the only satellite campus with athletics also
I donât really like this, but I trust Renu and our BOR. It is very likely they saw any fight to keep UHV as a lose-lose situation. Iâm sure a lot of this was argued behind closed doors over many years. I am aware of some of the issues UHV had in regards to the UH Sugarland site and such as well.
As far as wanting UHâs money back for the investment. Well, the truth is we are all state funded schools, its the stateâs money thereâs nothing to pay back. However, as has been said, UH absorbing the nursing program looks to have been a great move but it may have also been part of the death of UHV as part of the UHS.
Renuâs Op-ed about the change.
Are you referring to college growth or town growth? I watched that little campus mushroom during the three decades I lived there. I first attended class in a building shared by administrative offices. By the time I moved back to Houston, UHV occupied several new buildings, including a library and an enormous dorm building. Growth potential was clearly exploited like a mushroom farm. The only things growing are the university and the hospitals.
If youâre referring to town growth, forget about it. The mall needs someone to drive a stake of holly through its heart, and I never see any evidence of further growth. Maybe all those good Ags will descend from outer environs that arenât already sending students.
Psst! Someone nudge Google map. They forgot the name change.
This article is behind a paywall. Too bad, because it might just be the only thing worth reading for a year from that outfit. Speaking of shrinkage, that paper puts out a tangible version three days a week at a print shop in Corpus Christi. Itâs as dead as the Victoria Mall.
Well, youâre talking about growth in the past, starting from nothing. Future growth would require substantial investment to add programs and whatnot, not to mention the physical space limitations that point toward a need for additional land somewhere.
It just seems like UH didnât like the value proposition of spending that additional money and the Victoria Aggie crowd didnât like being grounded in neutral.
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And now ATM wants to open a medical school in Houston? In the Med Center? How do they get a place at the big boy table and UH couldnât?