An excerpt from page 162 of the book, The Story of North Texas: From Texas Normal College, 1890, to the University of North Texas by James Lloyd Rogers, 2002

In 1932, during the height of Great Depression, the Texas Joint Legislative Committee on Organization and Economy proposed that:

"...Various board of regents would be eliminated... Three schools would be abolished: the School of Mines and Metallurgy in El Paso, North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington, and Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Four teachers' colleges---East Texas, Stephen F. Austin, West Texas, and Sul Ross---would become junior college branches of the University of Texas, as would Texas A&I College and John Tarleton Agricultural College. Sam Houston State and Texas Tech would become four-year liberal arts colleges, the latter to become West Texas State College..."

That would be (what is now) UTEP, UTA, and TXSU getting the shaft. Sam Houston State could've been a powerhouse. Some interesting turn of events.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uEqJXwQ...ge&f=false

(08-09-2014 08:10 PM)theothermav Wrote:  An excerpt from page 162 of the book, The Story of North Texas: From Texas Normal College, 1890, to the University of North Texas by James Lloyd Rogers, 2002

In 1932, during the height of Great Depression, the Texas Joint Legislative Committee on Organization and Economy proposed that:

"...Various board of regents would be eliminated... Three schools would be abolished: the School of Mines and Metallurgy in El Paso, North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington, and Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Four teachers' colleges---East Texas, Stephen F. Austin, West Texas, and Sul Ross---would become junior college branches of the University of Texas, as would Texas A&I College and John Tarleton Agricultural College. Sam Houston State and Texas Tech would become four-year liberal arts colleges, the latter to become West Texas State College..."

That would be (what is now) UTEP, UTA, and TXSU getting the shaft. Sam Houston State could've been a powerhouse. Some interesting turn of events.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uEqJXwQ...ge&f=false

or without being under the thumb of the ut system, arlington state and texas western and texas a&i may have become powerhouses..

There are only going to be two super-sized universities in Texas. After that, I contend that UTEP and UT Arlington have done very well for themselves in the UT System. Many advantages. Probably some negatives, but, net, we have thrived and both occupy important positions in the Texas higher education landscape.

(08-10-2014 10:08 AM)UTArlingtonMaverick Wrote:  There are only going to be two super-sized universities in Texas. After that, I contend that UTEP and UT Arlington have done very well for themselves in the UT System. Many advantages. Probably some negatives, but, net, we have thrived and both occupy important positions in the Texas higher education landscape.

certainly uta would not have had nearly the resources as they have had to build such a first class university with some top notch programs and facilities. But I can remember not that long ago that not one single member of the board of regents had ever even been to uta...yet they were making yes and no decisions on every matter important to the school.

Your first sentence in your above post is right on. Pretty much rest my case with that, and see that we have no disagreement. Regarding the rest, there are also advantages to to having some distance between Arlington and the, of late, horrendous politics playing out in Austin. I'd rather be a little under the radar in many cases.