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How can our community and Coastal Bend universities work together?

COVID-19 continues to affect the state of higher education in our community, with both Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Texas A&M University-Kingsville struggling with a myriad of challenges. Enrollment continues to be of concern, as do maintenance and upgrades – of infrastructure, academic and otherwise. However, the envisioned future looks promising, and the upper administration… Continue reading How can our community and Coastal Bend universities work together?

What’s “high” in Higher Education

Higher Education is emerging to be one of the most prominent battlegrounds over competing ideologies. The right versus left battles over controlling school agendas have reached dull stalemates, with all sides firmly in their respective corners, and no new voter base being created or excited. Higher education, at the same time, offers a much richer,… Continue reading What’s “high” in Higher Education

Battery Recharge

The future of transportation Electric cars, trucks, and buses are being touted as the future of transportation, which they may very well be. Clean and efficient, they are being sold as the one answer to environmental concerns, and (sometime in the) future impending oil-shock, which they again may very well be. There are however legitimate… Continue reading Battery Recharge

Enrollment declines at South Texas Universities a worrying trend

Thank you for your timely article on student enrollment numbers at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (“Enrollment continues to fall at Texas A&M University-Kingsville,” Oct. 19). As the article suggests, the Coastal Bend community’s two renowned institutions of higher learnings – Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, both universities of national and… Continue reading Enrollment declines at South Texas Universities a worrying trend