UTSA Merger with UT Health SA

MCMLXXX · August 22

UT System approves merger of UTSA and UT Health in San Antonio (mysanantonio.com)

Ross Hodgeson · August 22

Good news for them but not sure it will impact athletics. It's not like UNT Health Science Center is sending big check to UNT AD or anything. It will help their academics.

MeanGreen22 · August 22

I keep seeing them throw out the combined endowment numbers as if the athletic program will get to touch any of the UT Health SA money.

UNTcrazy727 · August 23

2 hours ago, MeanGreen22 said:

I keep seeing them throw out the combined endowment numbers as if the athletic program will get to touch any of the UT Health SA money.

Or any other part of the university. They have a great medical school now which will likely help years down the road with more alumni with lots of cash. But right now the rest of the university is still subpar with a lot of first generation college students. That’s not changing anytime soon.

bstnsportsfan3 · August 23

They do get about 8,000 new students to charge an athletics fee too

MeanGreen22 · August 23

12 hours ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

They do get about 8,000 new students to charge an athletics fee too

Agreed on that. It's definitely a positive for them in the long run.

Ross Hodgeson · August 23

23 minutes ago, MeanGreen22 said:

Agreed on that. It's definitely a positive for them in the long run.

Yeah which is why I keep wishing we could try to merge with TWU.

UNTcrazy727 · August 23

16 minutes ago, Ross Hodgeson said:

Yeah which is why I keep wishing we could try to merge with TWU.

https://blogs.library.unt.edu/unt125/2015/03/02/this-shall-not-pass-the-1986-merger-proposal-of-ntsu-and-twu/

Its been discussed in the past. It would be A LOT more complicated since UNT and TWU are their own university systems. The UTSA and UT Health merger is just the UT System deciding to merge a medical school into one of their universities.

NT80 · August 27

On 8/23/2024 at 10:37 AM, UNTcrazy727 said:

https://blogs.library.unt.edu/unt125/2015/03/02/this-shall-not-pass-the-1986-merger-proposal-of-ntsu-and-twu/

Its been discussed in the past. It would be A LOT more complicated since UNT and TWU are their own university systems. The UTSA and UT Health merger is just the UT System deciding to merge a medical school into one of their universities.

It was discussed in the past with NT/TWU because it would save the State million$ in reducing duplicate administration, classes, infrastructure, etc only 8 miles apart. But because it's a "Women's" university (so-called, but men attend too) it won't be touched by the Legislature, otherwise gender equality may be endangered. Do think if there was a Men's University it would still be called as such?

Stix · August 28

10 hours ago, NT80 said:

Do think if there was a Men's University it would still be called as such?

There WAS a men's university: A&M. But, no, it wasn't called as such, and it no longer has that reputation, unlike TWU.

NT80 · August 28

10 minutes ago, Stix said:

There WAS a men's university: A&M. But, no, it wasn't called as such, and it no longer has that reputation, unlike TWU.

I got accepted to A$M. They had started admitting women in the mid-60's, but by the mid-70's there were still very few on campus...so I went elsewhere. I found love in Denton instead, lol.

Udomann · September 25

On 8/27/2024 at 9:27 PM, Stix said:

There WAS a men's university: A&M. But, no, it wasn't called as such, and it no longer has that reputation, unlike TWU.

I've met more guys from TWU than women. The name is the only barrier there

Edited September 25 by Udomann