{"id":31722,"date":"2018-08-11T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31722"},"modified":"2018-08-11T02:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T02:46:30","slug":"texas-tech-preparing-to-enlarge-its-panhandle-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31722","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech preparing to enlarge its Panhandle footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Tech University really wants to build a school of veterinary medicine in Amarillo. For that the entire Panhandle should be grateful to the Lubbock-based university system.<\/p>\n

Two committees comprising Tech regents have approved a degree plan for the school and a design for the way they want it to look.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be erected near Tech’s health sciences center in west Amarillo. It’s going to cost more than $80 million over five years to operate; construction will cost around $89 million. The Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, with the blessing of the Amarillo City Council, has committed around $69 million in public money to lure the veterinary medicine school to Amarillo.<\/p>\n

The school isn’t a done deal just yet. Tech’s regents, along with Chancellor Bob Duncan, are acting as if it is.<\/p>\n

That’s fine. The Texas Legislature will be able to weigh in next year.<\/p>\n

However, Tech has made the case for a new school of veterinary medicine. It wants to build it in Amarillo, cementing its commitment to the Panhandle.<\/p>\n

Read the Amarillo Globe-News story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tech will build this school over the objection of the Texas A&M University System, which has the heretofore only vet school in Texas. A&M officials don’t want Tech to build the school. The reasons why escape me, given that the state is large enough to field enough students for both veterinary medicine schools.<\/p>\n

The Tech vet school is going to specialize in large animal veterinary medical care.<\/p>\n

This is a huge boon to the Panhandle. My perch from some distance away doesn’t lessen my own support for this worthwhile and stunning advance in the region’s economic well-being.<\/p>\n\n

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