re: Texas AM endowment supremacy challenged

Considering TAMU and Utx have the PUF and VU does not this is more impressive for VU (a small private university in the South).

Also, for all those just commenting on VU's baseball natty's, lest you forget bowling bitches!

Point is, you and Sidewalk are a couple of ignorants. Lol...you two aren’t the guys to match up with anyone education wise.

A&M was founded under the Morrill Act in 1871, while the Constitution of 1869 was in effect in Texas, prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1876, as a standalone instituion complete with its own board of regents, seperate and apart from UT, and has never been merged into the UT system, despite the clause you reference in the Constitution of 1876.

The horse had already left the barn by the time the Constitution of 1876 was ratified, A&M was already established and operating, and nothing was ever done to reorganize the two universities to match the language in the document. It's a vestige of reconstruction era Texas, operating under three constitutions plus a federally appointed reconstruction governer all in less than 20 years. Just because one document adopted by one of the operating governments after the fact says something, doesn't mean that's what actually happened in reality.

A&M operates, and always has, as a seperate university system, just like Tech, UH, UNT, etc.

It's very tiresome discussing this with you and your lack of understanding of the PUF and the politics involved with it.

Yes, the PUF was changed in '37 but the reason it hasn't been changed is because A&M and to a much greater extent Texas have invested heavily in their other System schools that are covered by the PUF. Essentially they have been making a huge push for schools like UTSA and UTD to become solid Tier 2 schools instead of commuter schools. UTD especially has an excellent Computer Science Department. I did college recruiting and they are probably on a similar level to NC State academically now. Texas is essentially trying to model the UC System with Austin being Berkeley but it is unlikely the other campuses can become Tier 1 for several decades (UC has multiple Tier 1's in their system). A&M and Texas protect their PUF access as their top political priority and they work in concert to make sure it isn't shared outside of their System, that requires compromises.

As stated by others A&M has never been a part of the Texas System. The original language establishing the schools in that one version of the Constitution talked about it but it never happened. A&M was formed in 1876, Texas in 1883. By the time Texas opened it's doors A&M was already separate and that never changed, the schools have never been a part of the same system nor has Texas ever had any real power over A&M. The PUF also is technically administered by the Texas Board of Regents but UTIMCO that actually manages the money has reps from both schools. That's really just about where they are investing though and not any relation to how the money is dispersed.

Well now yall made me look up my alma mater because I was curious. Apparently, the endowment has 1.29 million for each current student enrolled-- not bad.