Frank Sanchez, Jr.,, Director of Enrollment services said, “It’s right about where it should be right now, and we are shooting for next fall to hit close to a thousand.”
Enrollment still has not reached the 1,500 students needed to build a facility or the 2,500 students needed to become a stand-alone university.
Janet Quintanilla, a freshman Elementary Education major at Palo Alto, said, “It is great to be able to start at one campus and finish your education there. I really look forward to the next years. I will be able to make lasting ties, instead of just moving on after two years.”
Texas A&M University-Kingsville-System Center located on the Palo
Alto campus is growing. Seven hundred students are enrolled now, and more
are expected in the Spring of 2004.
Frank Sanchez,
Jr.,, Director of Enrollment services said, “It’s right
about where it should be right now, and we are shooting for next fall
to hit close to a thousand.”
Enrollment still has not reached the 1,500 students needed to build a
facility or the 2,500 students needed to become a stand-alone university.
Janet Quintanilla, a freshman Elementary Education major at Palo Alto,
said, “It is great to be able to start at one campus and finish your
education there. I really look forward to the next years. I will be able
to make lasting ties, instead of just moving on after two years.”
Anyone interested in applying to Texas A&M-System Center can visit
their Student Services, which moved on November 24 from the Student Center
to the portables on Villaret, in front of the Ozuna Learning Resource
Center. Their new location will be Rooms 401 and 402. For those applying,
there is a $15 fee.
Sanchez said, “I would suggest that students sign a joint admission
agreement, where an admission representative or a counselor from PAC will
sign off on it, and one of our counselors will sign off on it, too. You
then attach your 2+2 degree plan to it. In case degree plans change, you’re
logged into it and we have to honor that degree plan.”
Myrella Gonzalez, a Business Management major and junior at the System
Center, said, “The best part is that it is close. I am able to stay
in one area instead of having to drive to go to college. It really makes
a difference, because you get to save so much time.”
Valorie Miller, a junior Accounting major at the System Center, said,
“The classes are harder than at Palo Alto, but the benefit is that
the class is small and the professor has time to help you.” Also,
“The change from Palo Alto to here is simple because you stay on
the same campus.”
This fall, 48 students will graduate from Texas A&M University-Kingsville
System Center. The 100th student teacher will also graduate. This will
make 210 graduates since A&M opened in the Fall of 2000.
The majors available through the System Center are Accounting, Computer
Information Systems, Business Administration, Human Relations, Sociology,
Criminology, Elementary Education, History, English, Kinesiology, Management,
Math, Psychology and Secondary Education.
For more information on the Texas A&M University-Kingsville-System
Center, surf over to their website at http://www.tamuk.edu/sanantonio/index.shtml.
There, you will find the course schedule for Spring 2004, admission
and application information, registration and information.
For more information, call toll-free 877/ 593-2733 or 210/ 921-5488, or
drop by their new offices in the portables.