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South Texas Normal School, South Texas State Teachers College, Texas College of Arts & Industries, Texas A&I University 1917, 1925, 1967, 1989 [78] Texas Southmost College: The Junior College of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, The University of Texas at Brownsville – Texas Southmost College, 1931, 1991, 2011 [79] Texas State University
Main building and Cadet Corps of Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1916. 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 ...
Thomas Sanford Gathright (January 5, 1829 – May 24, 1880) was an American educator and the first president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now known as Texas A&M University, and the second president of Henderson Male and Female College.
Agriculture and the Life Sciences have been part of the university since its founding in 1876 as the "Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas." The college was formally recognized in 1911. A part of the land grant university system, the college offers more than 80 undergrad and grad degree programs across 15 departments. It is also one of ...
John Nielsen-Gammon, Ph.D., Texas state climatologist and Regents Professor in the Texas A&M Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Bryan-College Station, said the heat wave produced eight "all-time ...
In 1871, the Texas Legislature used these funds to establish the state's first public institution of higher education, [17] [18] the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, (Texas A.M.C.). [17] Brazos County donated 2,416 acres (10 km 2) near Bryan, Texas, for the college's campus. [17]
Consistent with terms of the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which provided public lands for the establishment of colleges, the State of Texas authorized an "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Benefit of Colored Youth" as part of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) System.
Texas A&M in 1883. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, later known as Texas A&M University was established by the Texas State Legislature on April 17, 1871 as the state's first public institution of higher education. The legislature provided $75,000 for the construction of buildings at the new school.