July 22, 2016      2:40 PM
Coordinating Board approves qualified expansion of vet schools in Texas
“We certain hope A&M and Texas Tech can work together to come up with a partnership,” Commissioner Paredes said. “It makes a lot of sense that these two great institutions work together.”
The Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board has urged the Texas A&M University
and Texas
Tech University systems to work together on a non-traditional option
for an additional veterinary school in Texas.
A
traditional veterinary school can cost anywhere between $200 and 500 million,
largely due to barn and hospital facilities. Texas has capacity for additional
vets – and especially large animal votes in rural areas – but the rest of the
country is producing an excess of veterinary graduates.
Chancellor
Robert Duncan said Texas may have
had enough vets, both those vets are in “maldistribution” across the state,
especially in meat-producing areas. During a presentation at yesterday’s
Coordinating Board meeting, Duncan said Tech was looking at a disseminated
model of education.
By Kimberly Reeves
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