Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Lawmakers approve full-fledged Texas A&M San Antonio campus - San Antonio Business Journal:

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The law allows the state to releaswe $40 million in tuition revenue bonds to begi n construction on the firsyt building on thecampus site. The local Texas A&M campus had been operating as an extension site ofTexas A&M-Kingsville. Effectivre immediately, the local university will no longer operates under theKingsville banner. Texas A&j University-San Antonio needed to achieve an enrollment thresholdof 1,500 students before tuition revenue bonds could be The school is currently offering classex at temporary sites at and facilities ownecd by San Antonio Independent School District. State Rep. Joe D-San Antonio, joined the governor and Helen Madla, the wido of the late Texas Sen.
Frank Madl a Jr., at a bill signing for Senate Bill 629. Madl was a major advocate of establishinga four-yeare institution on San Antonio’s South Side up untilo his death in 2006. “Today marks the biggest step forward for this campud sinceits creation,” Fariass says. “Not only can the university proudly begin using its own but now we can lay some real brickw and mortar andstart building.” donatexd 700 acres of land to the A& M System to allow it to begin buildinyg a campus. Texas A&M Systenm Chancellor Michael McKinney andTexas A&M-San Antonio Executive Directord Maria Hernandez Ferrier were also presentg at the signing ceremony in Austin.
“Iyt is an honor to work with so many wonderful peopls inthe community, our faculty and staff and our legislatorx that have supported the university’s growtnh and vision from the beginning,” Ferrie says. “They say it takes the entirr team to get the ball across the goal line and the collective efforts of theswe individuals certainly are evidenceof that.” Texasx A&M-San Antonio will now work to unveil a new logo, school colors, seal and ring as part of its new

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