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Students lounge in the Memorial Student
Prairie View
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Center at Prairie View A&M University.
(continued from page 1)
posed amendment to the Texas
Constitution passes.
In November Texas voters will
decide the fate of the proposed Per
manent University Fund amend-
1 ment (House Joint Resolution 19).
|T Muse says the proposed amend-
| ment is more important to Prairie
View A&M than any other school in
J the two systems.
If the amendment passes. Prairie
View A&M will receive $6 million a
year for 10 years from the Univer
sity of Texas’s two-thirds share of
the AUF. Prairie View A&M also will
" or gain access to the Available Univer
sity Fund, which it hasn’t had pre
viously.
Prairie View A&M shares prob-
; lems as well as the PUF with Texas
A&M. Both schools need additional
buildings for classroom space, re
search and other facilities. Existing
an.li buildings need renovations and re-
studf pairs. But the reasons for construc-
andl tion are different.
i to: Texas A&M needs additional
space because it has yet to catch up
with the enrollment explosion of the
tudf- 1970s. Prairie View A&M needs new
i inf'”
bef
buildings and renovations on exist
ing buddings because it essentially
was neglected by the System until
the 1960s and 1970s.
“We wouldn’t be going through
this if they (Prairie View A&M and
Texas A&M) had been equal since
the beginning,” Nelson says. “From
this point on. Prairie View A&M will
^ be treated equally.”
se “ Prairie View A&M and Texas
I’ 1 A&M face enrollment problems —
with 180 degrees separating the two.
Prairie View A&M wants to increase
A® enrollment. Texas A&M wants to
curb enrollment.
Prairie View A&M has had a de
cline in enrollment in the past four
years. In Fall 1980 enrollment was
5,528; in Fall 1981 enrollment had
dropped to 4,588. That drop was at
tributed to a stringent new fee col
lection that required students to pay
tuition fees on time. Enrollment con
tinued to decline slightly — for Fall
1983 enrollment was 4,452.
Facing problems is nothing new to
Prairie View A&M. In 1981 a state
representative, Foster Whaley of
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“We wouldn’t be going
through this if they
(Prairie View A&M and
Texas A&M) had been
equal since the begin
ning. From this point
on, Prairie View A&M
will be treated equally. ”
Pampa, introduced a bill that called
for no new admissions to the univer
sity after the summer of 1981 and a
cessation of operations on Aug. 31,
1984.
Whaley argued that continuing
the two separate schools was just as
racist as segregation.
The state Coordinating Board for
colleges and universities and Gov.
Bill Clements disagreed. So did the
Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. De
partment of Education.
While Whaley was arguing for his
bill, the state was trying to meet fed
eral integration requirements in
public cofleges and universities as
outlined by the Department of Edu
cation. The agency had released a
study in January 1981 that blasted
the Texas A&M System for its treat
ment of Prairie View A&M. From
1958 to 1978, Texas A&M received
more than $54 million in bond
money from the PUF, while Prairie
View A&M got $8 million during
that time.
“From day one, the funding was
difficult,” says Dr. Percy A. Pierre,
president of Prairie View A&M.
rrairie View was separate but cer
tainly not equal — not equally fun
ded/’
The Texas Desegregation Plan
was the result of the federal study
and k threat to withhold $250 mil
lion in federal funds.
The plan calls for new academic
E rograms benefitting the state’s
lacK population. Prairie View A&M
is committed to six new degree pro
grams and four others are possible.
The university received $1 million
from the state legislature to imple
ment the new programs in the 1983-
84 academic year.
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As defined by the Texas Legis
lature in 1981, Prairie View A&M is
a statewide general purpose institu
tion of higher education and a land-
grant institution. It is also a special
purpose institution with programs I
dedicated to “enabling students with
latent aptitudes, talents and abilities
and of diverse economic, ethnic and
cultural backgrounds to realize their
full potential; assisting small and
medium-sized communities to
achieve their optimal growth and de
velopment; and assisting small and
mechum-sized agricultural, business
and industrial enterprises to manage
their growth abd development effec
tively.”
Tne main campus consists of
1,475 acres of prairie land in a rural
location, between Hempstead and
Waller. A farm for agricultural in
struction and research is part of the
campus. The clinical program of the
College of Nursing is in the Texas
Medical Center near downtown
Houston.
Prairie View A&M has nine col
leges and one school: the College of
Agriculture, College of Arts and Sci
ences, College of Business, College
of Education, College of Engi
neering, College of Engineering
Technology, College of Home Eco
nomics, College of Nursing, the
Graduate School and the Benjamin
Banneker College.
The Benjamin Banneker College
is a new program created by the
Prairie View A&M president. The
program, which begins this fall with
approximately 60 students, is essen
tially an honors program with a new
twist — it’s residential. Freshmen
participants will live near each other
in a dormitory. The college is only
one of several programs planned to
enhance academics at Prairie View
A&M.
“There’s a plan in place, com
mitted people and people talking
about first class,” Nelson says.
“That’s the important thing.”
Prairie View A&M’s president
agrees.
“I don’t find people dwelling on
the past,” Pierre says. “The impor
tant thing is the future.”
(Tomorrow: Students views of
problems facing Prairie View A&M.)
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