I remember when UH- Clear Lake was considered the crown jewel of academia in UH land.
You don’t hear much about them now that UH main campus is growing.
What gives?
I don’t remember when UH- Clear Lake was ever considered the crown jewel of academia in UH land.
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Me either.
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Yeah no. Main campus has always been THE campus.
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Do you have articles or anything else on this? I don’t remember ever hearing this at all.
@Coog51 - what are you talking about?
Put down the margarita!
Come on, you don’t remember UH Clear Lake being the graduate program that was the star of UH?
On a side note, I dislike it when people say the main campus is the downtown campus.
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Which graduate program? I only remember clear lake being a place where mostly part time students went at night.
I never remember any of the programs being particularly good.
I do remember something, like maybe a nursing or health care administrator graduate degree being very popular there.
But never was it the crown jewel of the houston system from what I remember.
I remember when the Rep from that area wanted to change the name to UH Clear Lake At Pasadena
It wasn’t health related it was astronauts taking classes there is what I remember. Which makes UH high on the list of alumni in space.
space x, boeing, lockheed, and axiom are just a short list of contractors in webster-pasadena.
Nope.
The building on the top right is new, it is the new Natural Sciences building. Many of the other labs are still in the bayou building. They got a rec center, dorms, and new campus apartments.
I don’t EVER remember that being th case.
Far from it, actually.
I always heard more the opposite.
I don’t recall anyone disparaging it.
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Main campus gets 0% of grant money and they have separate endowments. I believe main campus just assists with board decisions.
If you have a kid looking to do high throughput sequencing or nucleotide synthesis, you might want to go to a bigger school. Im sure every school has people who apply themselves well and others who do not.
Id ask yal this, what value do you get from getting an education, accounting, etc degree from main vs lake?
Also, what is the benefit of being in an university system vs not? SFA being the perfect example.
1970s UHCL was the “extended “ graduate school (masters) for engineering and sciences because of NASA. I think as UH entered the 1980s, Main campus started to tighten things up for research and programs. UHCL gained the undergraduate upperclassman coursework.
Recently, UHCL gained R3 status for PhD and a comprehensive undergrad program. It’s a good school with a lot of potential: big campus space. I think it should be a research polytechnic school (like UT-D) in the areas main (the comprehensive university) doesn’t want, can’t have, or needs overflow.
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