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Unlike the previous plan of the Texas A&M University System to rename ASC "Texas A&M University at Arlington", UTA's new name was received positively by students, faculty, and administrators. It was widely perceived as increasing the university's prestige, name recognition, and funding and recruiting abilities. The first degrees with the new ...
Texas Southern University: Houston: Texas: 1927 Public Founded as "Texas State University for Negroes" Yes Tougaloo College: Hinds County: Mississippi: 1869 Private [z] Founded as "Tougaloo University" Yes Trenholm State Community College: Montgomery: Alabama: 1947 Public Founded as "John M. Patterson Technical School" [21] Yes Tuskegee ...
From 1917 to 1965, what is now the University of Texas at Arlington was a member of the Texas A&M University System. In March 1917, it was organized as Grubbs Vocational College (GVC), a junior college that was a branch campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (AMC), which later became Texas A&M University. Open only to white ...
Nov. 7, 1974: Lanny Bassham, kneeling, shows a University of Texas at Arlington student some points in target shooting at UTA’s range. Bassham is recognized as one of the world’s two or three ...
In April 1965, the Texas Legislature transferred Arlington State College (ASC) from the Texas A&M University System to the University of Texas System (UT System). [3] [56] In 1966, Maxwell Scarlett became the first African American graduate in ASC's history. [57] [58] [59] In March 1967, ASC was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) – institutions founded prior to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that were created primarily to educate African Americans (e.g., Alabama State University, Morgan State University, and Texas Southern University) [13]
Some historically black colleges and universities now have non-black majorities, including West Virginia State University and Bluefield State University, whose student bodies have had large white majorities since the mid-1960s. [13] [67] [68]
One school system, Texas Woman's University, opened a center for first-generation students in the months following SB 17’s implementation. Chancellor Carine Feyten described it as “race- and ...