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The Sam Houston Sanders Corps of Cadets Center is a museum on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, dedicated to the school's Corps of Cadets. Since its opening in 1992, the Center has become home to thousands of Aggie artifacts, the Metzger-Sanders gun collection, over 60 exhibits, and over 600 photographs.
The history of Texas A&M University, the first public institution of higher education in Texas, began in 1871, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was established as a land-grant college by the Reconstruction-era Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876.
It included greetings from the A&M President and a poem by Dr. John Ashton of A&M's class of 1906, which he had written at McQuillen's request. Entitled "The Heroes' Roll Call" and also known as the "Roll Call for the Absent", it also commemorates the 1942 Muster and is designed so that the number of years since 1942 can be inserted. [8]
In 1998, graduate school dean Keith D. McFarland was named the 10th president in the history of A&M–Commerce. [6] By 1999, the university was offering classes at its Metroplex Center in Mesquite, the Universities Center at Dallas (through the Federation of North Texas Area Universities), and at Navarro College in Corsicana, in addition to at its main campus.
The Corps is a link to the early days of Texas A&M's history, when all students were required to be members and receive military training. [30] Although Corps membership became voluntary in 1965, [ 30 ] as of 2001 it was the United States' largest uniformed student body outside the service academies , [ 31 ] with an enrollment of over 2,500 ...
Lack, Paul D. (1992), The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 978-0-89096-497-2; McComb, David G. The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp.
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The university was renamed Texas A&M University–Commerce and admitted into the Texas A&M University System in 1996. Since 2000, growth in student enrollment has again become consistent. The university is a charter member of the Lone Star Conference (LSC), and has won NAIA national championships in football and men's basketball.