Does this campus benefit UH-Main Campus at all?
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I think it was initially meant to be a open enrollment community college experience and some offerings for part time students working and/or living near downtown with transfer options to main campus.
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Does UH Victoria benefit the main campus?
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I don’t quite understand your question. Why would UHD need to benefit the main campus?
Like does UTSA benefit UT?
These schools are meant to benefit the community and serve a need in the community.
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Well UH blocked UT-Houston for a reason
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It started as a junior college and was brought into the UH system. It serves more non traditional students. Students that might not have qualified right out of high school and/or working students (even more so than UH main campus).
Its slowly evolved to offer them even more than just associates and transfer credits.
It doesn’t benefit UH directly, but it does provide a path for students. I graduated from UHD in 1989. I was married and working. Before online classes, getting to and through UH would’ve been twice as difficult logistically and from a time management standpoint. I was in class with a lot of working parents including single moms, older veterans like me, and younger people working downtown who would go to school after work every night.
Without UHD, my life may have turned out differently.
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Yes but that doesn’t explain your question (and also is irrelevant). Why would you think UHD, UHCL, or UHV need to benefit the main campus?
It is an open enrollment college. It serves the original purpose of the University of Houston while UH-Main grows into world class status.
The University of Houston is the next great public university. It will be an AAU university at some point.
But our original purpose was to provide a great education to first generation blue collar students. UH Downtown is critical to the original mission.
Both missions are critical and noble.
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Its an open enrollment campus.
We should filter our non-Traditional students there.
They will still get a ‘UH’ education just wont have to pay for the things they, and their parents, don’t care about
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UH main was never open enrollment. I don’t get where you guys get this idea. Oh I know where. You listen to your horn and Aggie friends and believe we are cougar high.
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UH- D was open enrollment, i remember comparing the differences between UH-D and UH-Main when I was a senior in High School.
UH-D had a 100% acceptance rate
Do you think that UH main’s students are some unqualified kids that belong at UHD? UH students applied to UH because it’s a top notch school and you want to relegate them to an open enrollment school? You know UHs students are comparable to atm and tech right? Right?
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Yes…once OUR administration made the decision to pursue a spot in a Power Conference, which they achieved, it meant our days have having majority non-traditional students are slowly being phased out.
We are seeing a way larger traditional student base, we are seeing campus upgrades geared for supporting a traditional campus.
The next step is to filter the non-traditional students to our satellite campuses .
Sorry…but Power Conference schools ARE traditional Universities!
Might as well cut and paste from this argument that we’ve had before…
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The difference is that im repeating the narrative that Dr. Khator consistently repeats evetytime she talks about her vision for our University.
The problem is that our timers, and politicians like our Mayor, want to keep us in the 1970s, as a glorified community college, and adamantly resist any measure that help us cement our NEW identity as a Traditional campus…even a destination University
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I don’t know why both aren’t embraced.
If you are a first generation and started your education as an English is a second language student, your grades might not be where they should be to get you into in a top school. But you are super smart and need a secondary education. UH-D would be perfect.
For the city of Houston to be one of the world class cities it needs a top notch public University.
Two needs and two solutions.
It already does. Do you think UH students don’t speak English? You guys have some low regards on UH. It’s tough to get into UH. It’s not open enrollment.
I think you missed the point.
Hugh Roy Cullen’s vision for the University of Houston was that it would be for blue collar kids to get a college education. Very noble, very understandable.
The city of Houston has become a world class city which needs an elite public university.
To keep Hugh Roy Cullen’s original vision UH-D is that.
UH-Main is going to be the next UCLA.
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