The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

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The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas
Southmost College

• Board of Regents
• Faculty, Staff and Student Campus Life Committee
  February 4, 2004

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Agenda

• Student Characteristics
• Classes
• Community
• Leadership
• Extracurricular Activities
• Whats Needed?
• Closing

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At Home on a Commuter Campus

• Our paseo was designed to let people connect in
  passing from the historic Fort Brown buildings to
  the state-of-the art facilities.

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Who Are Our Students?

• Part time
• 6.9 hours
• 27 years old
• Freshman level
• Full time
• 13.2 hours
• 23 years old
• Freshman level
• Graduate
• 4.9 hours
• Second year

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Life in the Classroom

• Faculty load
• 6.3 classes per semester
• Class size
• faculty to student ratio of 281

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Life in the Classroom

• Faculty Demographics
• 53 white
• 47 minority
• 58 male
• 42 female

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Connecting Classrooms with Community

• . UTB/TSC seeks to be a community university
  which respects the dignity of each learner and
  addresses the needs of the entire community
• excerpt from Mission Statement

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Service Learning School of Education

• Buena Vida Learning Center
• Longoria Elementary School

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Service LearningSchool of Health Sciences

• Community-Based Nursing  
• Associate Degree Nursing Students
• Provided free services to over 500 neighborhood
  adults and children.
• Called local clinics, pharmacies and hospitals to
  donate the materials needed for the event. 

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Student Leadership Development

• Presidents Circle Fund gave money
• Sponsored for professional conferences
• Developed to teach determination
• Raise matching funds
• ADN students raised money
• Taught us about appreciation

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the
last product of civilization. Bertrand
Russell
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Campus Housing

• One of our most dynamic ventures to date.
• Initially, facilities opened to about 65
  occupancy rate
• In less than 8 months at 90 capacity and still
  growing

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Student Organizations

• 40 Growth in Student Organizations
• Examples
• Student Government Association
• Criminal Justice Association
• Health Occupational Students of America
• Students Towards Excellence in Medicine
• Phi Theta Kappa

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Collegiate Sports

• Golf
• Womens team top 13 at nationals
• Volleyball
• Winning Season
• Young fans to campus

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Recreational Sports

• Flag football
• Increase from 100 participants last year to
  almost 200 this year
• Basketball and Soccer
• Had to cut our soccer league midway through the
  season because the field could not sustain
  level of use

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Music

• Jazz Band
• Mariachi Escorpion
• Bravo Opera Company
• Kids College

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Whats needed?

• Better residential housing
• Funding, facilities, and personnel to run a large
  Recreational Sports Program and Wellness Facility
• Sports at the upper level
• Performance Hall
• Faculty and Staff

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Looking to the Future
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Realizing a Dream
. When you teach the people, you will reap a
hundred harvests. Kuan Chung
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The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas
Southmost College
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