The growth of Texas A&M University-Commerce was spotlighted Thursday by A&M Chancellor John Sharp following tours of the campus and meetings with TAMU-C administrators.
In a public forum following the chancellor’s tour of the campus, Sharp said the growth of the Commerce campus — “Our rising star” — is greater than any other campus in the A&M System.
“There is no institution in this entire A&M System that is growing faster than this university,” said Sharp, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts from 1991 to 1999.
Growth of the Commerce campus and the significance of the university system in the health care field will lead to further expansion of the Commerce campus.
“A nursing school is going to come along as soon as I get you that $5 million,” he said. “This is a great, great jewel of the A&M System.”
Sharp has served as chancellor of the A&M System since September 2011. As chancellor, Sharp leads the 19-member system, which has an annual budget of $3.3 billion. Enrollment at the A&M System’s 11 universities and health science centers has grown to more than 120,000, and externally funded research expenditures are in excess of $780 million.
Texas A&M-Commerce, founded in the late 1889 as East Texas Normal College, is home to more than 11,000 students, four academic colleges and a graduate school and offers more than 100 degree programs.
For the past decade the university has undertaken an unprecedented construction program, updating and creating new facilities that range from a world-class science building and a planetarium to new student center, a fully equipped recreational facility and a recently completed music hall.
Texas A&M-Commerce also has partnerships and satellite campuses in Corsicana, Midlothian, Mesquite, Dallas and other locations.
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