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www.utpa.edu. The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) was a public university in Edinburg, Texas. Founded in 1927, it was a component institution of the University of Texas System. The university served the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas with baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees. The Carnegie Foundation classified UTPA as a ...
The institution was formed from a 1991 partnership between the two-year Texas Southmost College and University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. The partnership ended in 2011 as UTB became a standalone University of Texas institution, and Texas Southmost College returned to being an independent community college.
The Texas–Pan American Broncs (also UTPA) were the varsity athletic teams representing University of Texas–Pan American in Edinburg, Texas in intercollegiate athletics. . The university sponsored 15 teams including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, tennis, and track and field (indoor and outdoor); soccer and volleyball for women only; and baseball for men on
On December 6, 2012, the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved a proposal to merge, eliminating both the University of Texas–Pan American and the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. This led to the creation of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
On June 14, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a law officially approving the creation of a new university in South Texas within the UT System and replacing UT Brownsville and UT Pan American. The initiative resulted in a single institution, including a medical school , spanning the entire Rio Grande Valley , with a presence in each of the ...
The Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas ( USA ). The exhibition promoted the city of Dallas as the cultural and economic capital of an emerging Pan-American civilization stretching from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska. It followed the successful Texas Centennial Exposition, which was held to ...
Nelsen served as the eighth President of the University of Texas–Pan American from January 2010 to August 2014. [6] [7] Prior to this, Nelsen was an associate vice president for academic affairs and professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. Earlier, Nelsen was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. He ...
The University of Texas–Pan American (1926−2015) — former unit of the University of Texas System in Edinburg, merged into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as the Edinburg campus in 2015.