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9 hours ago, Deej said:

Cost of an office visit for my dog at aggy last month was $40. This month? $116. I guess I know how they're paying for the new basketball coach.

aggy vet has been watered down along with the rest of the university. No longer can you trust a vet just because they went to aggy. Older vets are obviously still well trained. 

In Texas, you might not have that much choice in the matter as so many aggy vet grads stay in Texas. 

But if you or someone you know is thinking about vet school, point them strongly towards Colorado state. 

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5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

What happened to aggy’s attempt to block Texas Tech’s new vet school?

Well, according to aggy, the state does not need a new Vet school...imagine that:                                                     

A&M just broke ground on a $22 million, Veterinary Education, Research, and Outreach Facility (VERO) on the West Texas A&M campus, just 17 miles south of where Tech wants to locate its school.elated Stories

And in 2016, A&M opened a $125 million teaching facility in College Station with enough capacity to increase enrollment by at least the equivalent of Texas Tech’s proposed school.

To justify its cause, TTU cites a 48-year-old report of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Perhaps they don’t want to be reminded of what THECB’s 2016 report concluded:

“The high cost of establishing a new veterinary school would outweigh the potential benefits to the state, given the small to moderate workforce demand and the issue that building a new school would not guarantee that any of the graduates would practice on livestock, which is the state’s principal area of need … ”Maybe that conclusion is why TTU chose to bypass the THECB and go straight to the Legislature.

TTU also chooses to overlook the 2016 report’s finding that A&M graduates “make up about 60 percent of the state’s veterinary workforce” – not the 25 percent cited by TTU.

Once Texas A&M’s new teaching facility opened in 2016, Aggies began increasing class size. Today, A&M has the largest entering class in the nation with 162 students.

A&M boasts the largest number of food animal, rural, and mixed animal veterinarians in the nation, with 33 percent of the 2017 class and 40 percent of the 2018 class choosing these paths.

Simply increasing class size does not guarantee more rural and food animal veterinarians. That’s why A&M and WTAMU began a targeted pipeline program that already has doubled the number of Panhandle-area students entering A&M’s veterinary college. Their numbers will increase with the A&M System’s ongoing investment in the Panhandle.

The pipeline program is a model for statewide implementation.  It can be ramped up and down, as needed. Agreements with three other A&M System schools will expand that pipeline into other rural areas.

TTU’s proposed veterinary school is neither innovative, nor cost efficient, and duplicates A&M’s efforts. It proposes a distributed model of veterinary education, a model created by off-shore, for-profit universities without access to clinical training.

TTU uses a Canadian veterinary school, Calgary, as its “affordable” model.  This comparison is flawed.  Calgary is heavily government subsidized. Distributed models are the most expensive models resulting in the highest student debt.

Conversely, A&M, which is ranked fourth in the nation, is one of the most affordable veterinary colleges with student debt that is the second-lowest in the nation.

TTU claims a teaching hospital is not needed.  In fact, teaching hospitals provide students opportunities to work alongside some of the best veterinarians.  They learn not only what is practical, but also what is possible with the latest, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods.

TTU’s estimated costs for a veterinary school are misrepresented.  A&M has invested nearly $400 million for veterinary facilities and infrastructure since 2009.  The costs are ongoing.  TTU’s request for state funds is a fraction of the support they will request over time.

Based on Texas A&M’s quality, wouldn’t it more effective and more cost efficient to invest more in A&M than to build an new veterinary school?

A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

Dr. Eleanor Green is the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

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2 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Well, according to aggy, the state does not need a new Vet school...imagine that:                                                     

A&M just broke ground on a $22 million, Veterinary Education, Research, and Outreach Facility (VERO) on the West Texas A&M campus, just 17 miles south of where Tech wants to locate its school.elated Stories

And in 2016, A&M opened a $125 million teaching facility in College Station with enough capacity to increase enrollment by at least the equivalent of Texas Tech’s proposed school.

To justify its cause, TTU cites a 48-year-old report of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Perhaps they don’t want to be reminded of what THECB’s 2016 report concluded:

“The high cost of establishing a new veterinary school would outweigh the potential benefits to the state, given the small to moderate workforce demand and the issue that building a new school would not guarantee that any of the graduates would practice on livestock, which is the state’s principal area of need … ”Maybe that conclusion is why TTU chose to bypass the THECB and go straight to the Legislature.

TTU also chooses to overlook the 2016 report’s finding that A&M graduates “make up about 60 percent of the state’s veterinary workforce” – not the 25 percent cited by TTU.

Once Texas A&M’s new teaching facility opened in 2016, Aggies began increasing class size. Today, A&M has the largest entering class in the nation with 162 students.

A&M boasts the largest number of food animal, rural, and mixed animal veterinarians in the nation, with 33 percent of the 2017 class and 40 percent of the 2018 class choosing these paths.

Simply increasing class size does not guarantee more rural and food animal veterinarians. That’s why A&M and WTAMU began a targeted pipeline program that already has doubled the number of Panhandle-area students entering A&M’s veterinary college. Their numbers will increase with the A&M System’s ongoing investment in the Panhandle.

The pipeline program is a model for statewide implementation.  It can be ramped up and down, as needed. Agreements with three other A&M System schools will expand that pipeline into other rural areas.

TTU’s proposed veterinary school is neither innovative, nor cost efficient, and duplicates A&M’s efforts. It proposes a distributed model of veterinary education, a model created by off-shore, for-profit universities without access to clinical training.

TTU uses a Canadian veterinary school, Calgary, as its “affordable” model.  This comparison is flawed.  Calgary is heavily government subsidized. Distributed models are the most expensive models resulting in the highest student debt.

Conversely, A&M, which is ranked fourth in the nation, is one of the most affordable veterinary colleges with student debt that is the second-lowest in the nation.

TTU claims a teaching hospital is not needed.  In fact, teaching hospitals provide students opportunities to work alongside some of the best veterinarians.  They learn not only what is practical, but also what is possible with the latest, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods.

TTU’s estimated costs for a veterinary school are misrepresented.  A&M has invested nearly $400 million for veterinary facilities and infrastructure since 2009.  The costs are ongoing.  TTU’s request for state funds is a fraction of the support they will request over time.

Based on Texas A&M’s quality, wouldn’t it more effective and more cost efficient to invest more in A&M than to build an new veterinary school?

A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

Dr. Eleanor Green is the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

Yet those rube fucks bought themselves a 4th rate law school for $73,000,000 and are bragging about it to their SEC overlords... just because.

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6 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Well, according to aggy, the state does not need a new Vet school...imagine that:                                                     

A&M just broke ground on a $22 million, Veterinary Education, Research, and Outreach Facility (VERO) on the West Texas A&M campus, just 17 miles south of where Tech wants to locate its school.elated Stories

And in 2016, A&M opened a $125 million teaching facility in College Station with enough capacity to increase enrollment by at least the equivalent of Texas Tech’s proposed school.

To justify its cause, TTU cites a 48-year-old report of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Perhaps they don’t want to be reminded of what THECB’s 2016 report concluded:

“The high cost of establishing a new veterinary school would outweigh the potential benefits to the state, given the small to moderate workforce demand and the issue that building a new school would not guarantee that any of the graduates would practice on livestock, which is the state’s principal area of need … ”Maybe that conclusion is why TTU chose to bypass the THECB and go straight to the Legislature.

TTU also chooses to overlook the 2016 report’s finding that A&M graduates “make up about 60 percent of the state’s veterinary workforce” – not the 25 percent cited by TTU.

Once Texas A&M’s new teaching facility opened in 2016, Aggies began increasing class size. Today, A&M has the largest entering class in the nation with 162 students.

A&M boasts the largest number of food animal, rural, and mixed animal veterinarians in the nation, with 33 percent of the 2017 class and 40 percent of the 2018 class choosing these paths.

Simply increasing class size does not guarantee more rural and food animal veterinarians. That’s why A&M and WTAMU began a targeted pipeline program that already has doubled the number of Panhandle-area students entering A&M’s veterinary college. Their numbers will increase with the A&M System’s ongoing investment in the Panhandle.

The pipeline program is a model for statewide implementation.  It can be ramped up and down, as needed. Agreements with three other A&M System schools will expand that pipeline into other rural areas.

TTU’s proposed veterinary school is neither innovative, nor cost efficient, and duplicates A&M’s efforts. It proposes a distributed model of veterinary education, a model created by off-shore, for-profit universities without access to clinical training.

TTU uses a Canadian veterinary school, Calgary, as its “affordable” model.  This comparison is flawed.  Calgary is heavily government subsidized. Distributed models are the most expensive models resulting in the highest student debt.

Conversely, A&M, which is ranked fourth in the nation, is one of the most affordable veterinary colleges with student debt that is the second-lowest in the nation.

TTU claims a teaching hospital is not needed.  In fact, teaching hospitals provide students opportunities to work alongside some of the best veterinarians.  They learn not only what is practical, but also what is possible with the latest, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods.

TTU’s estimated costs for a veterinary school are misrepresented.  A&M has invested nearly $400 million for veterinary facilities and infrastructure since 2009.  The costs are ongoing.  TTU’s request for state funds is a fraction of the support they will request over time.

Based on Texas A&M’s quality, wouldn’t it more effective and more cost efficient to invest more in A&M than to build an new veterinary school?

A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

Dr. Eleanor Green is the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

So aggy felt threatened by Tech. John Sharp is going to destroy that school with his dick measuring crap. 

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Driving around College Station this weekend my wife and i noted a lot of road repairs, and the general appearance of the campus.  

My six year old son in the backseat was listening to all of this and he blurted out "it looks like the prison from Despicable Me."

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35 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Hypothetically, could the state decide to transfer ownership of the vet school from aggy to tech?

hypothetically, politicians could do all sorts of things that in reality meet with way too much political fallout-- even legitimate, serious mismanagement would never produce consequences on that kind of scale, because the twits who make politics their careers want to be re-elected above anything else

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25 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Well,  shit.   I have the  title and deed   to a bridge in Brooklyn and some ocean front property in Arizona.   You think they might bite?

well, does the University of Texas have a nicer bridge in New York and better oceanfront property? Because if we do then fuck yes they'll bite

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On 5/3/2019 at 1:19 PM, Dennis Taylor said:

he gets more action in a week than Jimbo's had his entire life

Friend of mine went to the same all-boys Catholic high school as him. Said he was an absolute legend, did extremely well with their partner all-girls school.

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On 5/5/2019 at 4:33 PM, Cairn Horn88 said:

Well, according to aggy, the state does not need a new Vet school...imagine that:                                                     

A&M just broke ground on a $22 million, Veterinary Education, Research, and Outreach Facility (VERO) on the West Texas A&M campus, just 17 miles south of where Tech wants to locate its school.elated Stories

And in 2016, A&M opened a $125 million teaching facility in College Station with enough capacity to increase enrollment by at least the equivalent of Texas Tech’s proposed school.

To justify its cause, TTU cites a 48-year-old report of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Perhaps they don’t want to be reminded of what THECB’s 2016 report concluded:

“The high cost of establishing a new veterinary school would outweigh the potential benefits to the state, given the small to moderate workforce demand and the issue that building a new school would not guarantee that any of the graduates would practice on livestock, which is the state’s principal area of need … ”Maybe that conclusion is why TTU chose to bypass the THECB and go straight to the Legislature.

TTU also chooses to overlook the 2016 report’s finding that A&M graduates “make up about 60 percent of the state’s veterinary workforce” – not the 25 percent cited by TTU.

Once Texas A&M’s new teaching facility opened in 2016, Aggies began increasing class size. Today, A&M has the largest entering class in the nation with 162 students.

A&M boasts the largest number of food animal, rural, and mixed animal veterinarians in the nation, with 33 percent of the 2017 class and 40 percent of the 2018 class choosing these paths.

Simply increasing class size does not guarantee more rural and food animal veterinarians. That’s why A&M and WTAMU began a targeted pipeline program that already has doubled the number of Panhandle-area students entering A&M’s veterinary college. Their numbers will increase with the A&M System’s ongoing investment in the Panhandle.

The pipeline program is a model for statewide implementation.  It can be ramped up and down, as needed. Agreements with three other A&M System schools will expand that pipeline into other rural areas.

TTU’s proposed veterinary school is neither innovative, nor cost efficient, and duplicates A&M’s efforts. It proposes a distributed model of veterinary education, a model created by off-shore, for-profit universities without access to clinical training.

TTU uses a Canadian veterinary school, Calgary, as its “affordable” model.  This comparison is flawed.  Calgary is heavily government subsidized. Distributed models are the most expensive models resulting in the highest student debt.

Conversely, A&M, which is ranked fourth in the nation, is one of the most affordable veterinary colleges with student debt that is the second-lowest in the nation.

TTU claims a teaching hospital is not needed.  In fact, teaching hospitals provide students opportunities to work alongside some of the best veterinarians.  They learn not only what is practical, but also what is possible with the latest, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods.

TTU’s estimated costs for a veterinary school are misrepresented.  A&M has invested nearly $400 million for veterinary facilities and infrastructure since 2009.  The costs are ongoing.  TTU’s request for state funds is a fraction of the support they will request over time.

Based on Texas A&M’s quality, wouldn’t it more effective and more cost efficient to invest more in A&M than to build an new veterinary school?

A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

Dr. Eleanor Green is the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

Wait, if they just opened a new teaching facility 3 years ago, why are they sending me emails asking for donations to build a new teaching facility? Never should have given them my email address when I took my dog in. Somebody needs to audit those fuckers.

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10 minutes ago, Deej said:

A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

Er... since there is a need for more vets then it seems like aggy has NOT been meeting the need in Texas.  

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Somebody needs to audit those fuckers.

That place need an audit going back to WW2 at least.  Corrupt and incompetent runs deep.

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Wait, if they just opened a new teaching facility 3 years ago, why are they sending me emails asking for donations to build a new teaching facility? Never should have given them my email address when I took my dog in. Somebody needs to audit those fuckers.


Busy on Harvey relief, brah
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Yes, clay travis. Because good livestock is only available in Cameron, TX and you have to be employed nearby to bid. 

"There are no good places to keep cattle near Baton Rouge!" Clay Imadipshit Travis, 2019.

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