Education
BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
Texas State plans for 50k student enrollment
Enrollment growth
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Round Rock campus
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Texas State University is preparing for future growth with a new proposed campus master plan
for 2025-2035. The overview
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SOURCE: TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY IMPACT
The plan shows Texas State’s total enrollment is projected to increase by 31% between 2022-2033. The proposed plan reimagines Spring Lake, Sewell Park, The Ponds & Chautauqua Hall. It also calls for signicant recapitalization of existing infrastructure—which means the university will be taking any aged, existing buildings and renovating them, said Dan Costello, Texas State’s associate vice president of facilities.
educate at least 60% of Texans in some sort of post-secondary degree, which would require every institution of higher education in the state to double in size—including community colleges. He said the university’s primary focus is to grow its Round Rock Campus, create more partnerships with community colleges and grow online. The proposed plan will go to the Texas State University System board of regents for approval in February.
Digging deeper Gordon Bohmfalk, Texas State’s architect and director of facilities, said they plan to build three additional parking garages. However, the number of parking spaces and parking garage stories remain uncertain. Eric Algoe, executive vice president for oper- ations and chief nancial ocer, said the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s goal is to
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