My wife went to Texas A&I and doesn’t consider herself an aggie.
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I have two words that folks shy away from: ‘eminent domain’.
Two word response: “good luck.”
It would be politically difficult, but if UH could clear portions of Scott st. and move south and west of the campus and attract new investment?
Something I’d want to check is the reputation of the area around UH and see who cares and who doesn’t, but more importantly, what has the demographic of Houston been over the years? Maybe our enrollment is aligning more with the demographic of the city? We still have 48-49 percent of Harris County enrollment at UH. A MINORITY compared to outside of Harris
As far as it’s known the population of Texas is majority (50%) Hispanic, and Houston as a diverse city can probably support that stat vs cities like Austin and DFW.
We would have to look into where the majority of UT students come from. TAMU would be very specific in the case that probably more with conservative/Christian alignments would go vs that of UT/UH.
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What are “SEC kids”?
Great streets too.
Honestly, I care little for what the cows and farmers do. Why do we care what the other guys do? It doesn’t affect UH.
I was wondering that myself.
It’s more a demographics in enrollment thing. Some go to self-align, others don’t care or prefer a liberal/diverse school.
Economics will be a bigger part of the equation is the future.
Quick fact-check on this – Texas is only about 40% Hispanic. Hispanic Texans only recently (post-2020) became a plurality. Harris County and Houston are also only about 45% Hispanic, although that’s a much clearer plurality here because Houston and Harris County are much less White than the State of Texas more broadly.
Source:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/harriscountytexas,houstoncitytexas,TX/PST045224
In any case, though, you’d be correct to indicate that nobody’s putting together a campus in Texas or especially Houston with the kind of lily-white demographics you see at the Auburns of the world. Even Baylor (the first school I’d think of if someone asked me to name a school in Texas that probably has a lot of White folks) is only about 57% White.
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We opened up 48 billions threads on this subject. It always come back to:
The City of Houston doing nothing to help gentrify the entire Third Ward due to political pressures. This has been going on for 60 years.
By doing nothing the City of Houston has the middle finger to U of H and TSU.
The latest insult was rice o roni and the City of Houston partnering on “urban” issues. You can’t make that up. The Third Ward is the way it is because of the people that lead it.
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I guess that’s a question of your beliefs. Should commercial land development be part of the University of Houston’s mission? Or should we leave it up to commercial land developers to take that risk and provide the capital to redevelop properties adjacent to the University?
Governments don’t have a great track record in redeveloping land. Leave it to the experts, the ones that have motivation to make a profitable development.
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Timmy, I’ll ask you this:
60 years since the Third Ward has not seen major redevelopment(s)
60 years of the same local/Third Ward political leadership.
60 years of the same City of Houston leadership toward The Third Ward.
Is this a coincidence?
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The stereotypical kid that goes to SEC schools
You can find them at A&M in the non-STEM/non-Mays departments
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You’re suggesting that the government has failed the Third Ward. So what’s the solution?
What specifically should be done?
Does City of Houston and/or UH need to spend public money to redevelop Third Ward?
Are there policies or regulations that could be enacted to encourage development on Scott Street?
I do. 60 years of status quo is not a coincidence. One major point is that there are no zoning laws within the Houston City limits.
Not sure about UH, but I’d like to see various levels of our government involved in something precisely to that effect.
When UHCC offers a BS in Criminal Justice, then you can discard us