UT-Brownsville, Texas Southmost Face Difficult Breakup
BROWNSVILLE — This weekend, along the border’s southern tip, homecoming at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will be bittersweet for many. It will be one of the last, at least for the unique partnership between a community college and upper division university that operated as one institution for 20 years.
“Everything this year is going to be that way,” said Juliet V. García, who has been the only president in the history of the joint institution.
The partnership was conceived in 1991 as a cost-effective way to attract upper-level degree programs to one of ...
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Joshua J Caldwell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If the students are the "children" in this divorce, what does that make the professors?
Andrew Keese via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The children in this case are the trustees who acted up when they didn't get their way. Ring a bell, Mr. Oliveiria, Dr. Robles?
Patricia A Brownsville via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, let's hope both parties can put the children first then.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
In my opinion, this a step backward for community education as a whole. It's not just the kids, but adults as well who need the advantages of a hybrid learning system. This is not a way to help educate the masses.