Bowers Scoreboard project

The installation of the Bowers Stadium scoreboard is complete, having started May 15.

Regents Report - April 2006

The Texas State University System Board of Regents approved the construction of a $30 million Academic Building V and a $2 million expansion to the present Campus Mall that requires removal of the Frels-Wilson complex.

James F. Gaertner, Sam Houston State University president, told the regents that the new academic building will house the College of Humanities and Social Sciences offices and classrooms, in 143,301 square feet of space.

Also housed there will be additional faculty offices, the Post Office, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, the Business Office and Human Resources. I t is currently planned for the area south of the Smith-Hutson addition and east of the Lee Drain Building.

Gaertner said that the 80,000 square feet expansion of the mall south of the Lowman Student Center "will give our expanding student population a spacious area to gather for relaxing and socializing, and to conduct student activities and events."

The Fastest Growing University in Texas

Last fall in the 35 public Texas colleges and universities, there was an enrollment increase of 2,875 students. At Sam Houston State University alone, the increase was 975 students, or just over a third of the entire state total.

Even with the increase of students, University President James Gaertner notes, “...we are not running out of space on our grand old campus."