Building student housing south of Wheeler Street is a bad idea. You are completely dissociated from campus student centers. Might as well live off campus. It’s ok for married students I guess. When I lived at the Quad, I felt like I lived ON campus, not nearby campus.
And it’s outstanding! I toured UofA when my sister was about to start and I was applying for a PhD program there.
That entire town was built around the University. Businesses and districts moved over to support the UofA.
Not many students live on campus compared to the whole body. It’s mainly freshman. The rest are in apartments near campus or in districts or even at home with family.
Their student support services are through the roof.
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I hope it happens now honestly. Not the funding side. An actual focus on student support.
Campus was good looking with ugly stuff on the inside. Now it’s just ugly. Let these two years of ugliness be some cocoon for fixing all the student support stuff.
Where is the 80mil per year from Prop Five even going?
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Under the terms of the legislation it can ONLY be used to fund research related activities.
The take is misleading because it exaggerates the impact of moving technology students—many were already commuters, and the Sugar Land move is about growth and partnerships, not eviction. It also ignores that UH already has one of the largest residential campuses in Texas, even without a freshman housing mandate. Overall, UH has invested heavily in dorms, student life, and facilities, so it’s not moving away from being a traditional campus.
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Actually UH isn’t very residential, despite the dorm numbers.
Why not?
Because while we may have a significant number of people living in dorms, UT and especially aTm have a WAY LARGER percentage of students living in close proximity to campus. Dorm space at aTm is limited, but apartment and shared house space within either walking distance or a very short drive from campus is super abundant, and as a result,most aTm undergrads are far more deeply involved in campus life than those at UH.
It’s no accident that a FAR LARGER percentage of their grads become lifelong aTm sports fans and donors, and then send their kids there as well.
It’s not like at UH where you have masses and multitudes of long distance commuters who are only stopping on campus long enough to pick up a few classes on the way to their waitressing, barista, clerical, or grocery store job, never getting involved in any aspect of campus life, never developing any fandom or loyalty, and never truly calling the school HOME.
Those grads are way less likely to become fans and donors, by comparison.
aTm is a school that most students “go off to college” to in a traditional way.
NOT so at UH.
And the Technology argument is valid even though many of those students were already commuters.
Why?
Because by moving the school to Sugar Land, you’ve literally taken away the ONE connection that those students had to UH and its campus life: THEIR CLASSES!!!
That means that they’ll never be on campus most semesters, and never develop a close connection to the school.
They become even more disconnected than regular UH commuter students so often are.
SUPER commuters in that regard.
It’d be different if Technology were a small program like the traditional four year BSN out at UH-Katy. That’s fewer than 200 students per year.
The Technology move, by contrast, disconnected over 4000 undergrads from campus life. How many of them do you think will grow up to be big UH sports fans and donors?
Probably very few.
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Indeed the city is built around the university or has evolved around the university. Tucson is a great town surrounded by beautiful landscapes. We all have to remember our origins. TSU and U of H were one campus. We now have two campuses only separated by a fence. I can’t remember the City of Houston doing anything to “help” UH. You all have to stop comparing campuses like UA, UCLA with ours. These communities have nothing in common with ours. The City of Houston has to decide to help UH. These goes with helping businesses to do business on UH campus or right next to our campus. Favorable loans, permits priority, lower interest rates come to mind. This is valid for TSU too. We are forever tied. We ought to benefit from one another. Ideally both U of H and TSU should be “reunited” I understand the need for an African American University decades ago but we are in 2025. How many African American Universities do you see in the West? We are one people.
Improvements? I have seen some improvements but so much more needs to be done. U of H has to become a destination. How can this be achieved? That is the “real” question and the city of Houston has the keys.
Also, TAMU students are so involved in campus life because there is no life off campus. It’s a small town. Bryan is a dump and College Station is a suburban style neighborhood with strip centers.
In my opinion, UH has a much nicer campus than TAMU.
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It happens
Most of my aggie alum friends would literally come to Houston almost every weekend when they were Juniors/Seniors.
From what I can tell and witnessed, A&M/College Station is a fun place when you’re a Freshman/Sophomore. After that, it really loses its luster.
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How would this logistically be achieved?
- UH and TSU both have different rankings. They have different professors. They have different curriculums - You can’t just conjoin two universities that are on completely different levels nationally.
- TSU was positioned to serve residents of Third Ward, who historically did not get opportunities to attend other universities whether it be due to racism, financial circumstances (which stem from historical racism), and most importantly to give African Americans a safe space - You can’t just erase this history, and you can’t pretend like it doesn’t exist anymore in some elements today just to appease UH and/or Houston.
We’re gonna have a great campus after the 100 yr plan and the World Cup. They are closing off 7 blocks downtown a light rail away
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The 100 year anniversary is in 2027.
The World Cup is in summer 2026.
I saw where Dr Khator said we had 48,000 freshmen apps for this fall !!. We accepted only 6600 . That’s very impresssive. I probably wouldn’t have gotten accepted back in my day. Does anyone know why we only take 6600 freshmen when we have over 50,000 total students ?
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I’m sure the 48k applying are also applying to other schools.
Some just put UH as a filler option.
It’s not that hard to get into UH.
I got accepted due to being top 10% back in high school but this was 2007-08.
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Depends on the school.
Bauer School of Business is climbing in rankings very quickly, so acceptance is getting more and more difficult each year.
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Are you seriously pretending to be another person dude.
It’s not that serious - I doubt mods will ban you
This is seriously psycho behavior lol
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I’m not a math major but top 10 percent seems way above average
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Ban everyone with a 2 after their name 
Then i would be screwed
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