I don't think not-so-sharp can fully get his hands on the Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute because I believe that endowment is for TAMUK
he fucked them hard trying to cut their natural gas engineering undergrad degree right at the time Eagle Ford was exploding, but he had to do a reverse on that
he has fucked them on horticulture and the citrus program that still "belongs" to TAMUK, but most of the Weslaco researchers are under the USDA or under the TAMU Ag Experiment Station so not a part of TAMUK
in the past TAMU-CS was pretty much closing out their wildlife science PhD program especially as it related to deer and other wild game common in South Texas especially right after the Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute was really heavily funded, but they have done a hard reverse on that as well
there is also TAMU-SA that was a part of TAMUK and that was basically built off of TAMUK until the state finally bought land for a full campus and SA broke away from K......that actually helped the UT System though and especially UTSA because it allowed UTSA to move from being open enrollment (as the only public university in the SA metro area) to jacking their admissions standards up to a level much closer to similar state universities in Texas
the real ass fucking for TAMUK was when that idiot irma lerma derma verma rangel fought to get a pharmacy program for "South Texas" and immediately allowed it to be placed under the TAMU Health Science Center instead of the Kingsville Campus even thought it is located on the Kingsville Campus.....at that time the HSC was not under the administration of college station, but not long after that 100% of the HSC was moved under the administration of college station
the highest enrollment for TAMUK was 9,726 in 2016 and in 2020 it is 6,915 (for some reason 2021 and 2022 are not available)
the UTRGV merger was approved in 2013 and TAMU-SA was approved in 2009 as stand alone and in 2016 as a 4 year school (vs upper division enrollment)
so those two factors probably played a part in what is happening to TAMUK, but TAMU-CC peaked in 2017 with 12,236 and they are at 10,820 in 2021
of course not-so-sharp fucked up the merger of those two schools that would have saved them a ton of overhead and that would have merged two universities without a great deal of overlap (besides core departments that can easily be administered from one or the other campus) and a lot of very complimentary programs that would have fit together very well.....because of course no one trust him especially those at TAMUK and TAMU-CC is worried they will start getting shitted on like TAMUK has been for a long time
it is pretty pathetic when your goal is to have an engineering college at your main degree factory with a larger enrollment than a COMBINATION of two of your other larger system universities
and in fact the desire to have a college of engineering at the main degree factory that is larger than any of your other system universities and that would be only very slightly smaller than a combination of the two largest universities in your system (Commerce and Tarleton) is extremely pathetic