bachanon Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Vaughn Construction to build TWU urban campusMary Ann AzevedoHouston Business JournalTexas Woman's University has awarded a $27.7 million contract to Houston-based Vaughn Construction to build the university's new urban campus in the Texas Medical Center. The new campus will more than double the educational institution's Houston enrollment to 3,000 students. Construction is set to begin early next year. In preparation for the move, TWU participated in a land swap with The Methodist Hospital for the new site. The deal called for TWU, which has a primary campus in Denton, to build a new local campus on land previously owned by Methodist. In exchange, Methodist will build a patient tower on the soon-to-be abandoned TWU Houston campus as part of its own multimillion-dollar expansion in the medical center. The new 10-story, 202,000-square-foot TWU campus will include seminar rooms designed for traditional instruction, conferences, video conferencing and distance learning. Classrooms will be located on every academic floor of the building, which also will include several 120-seat lecture halls and a 250-seat auditorium. TWU established a Houston campus in 1960 by expanding its nursing program to the Texas Medical Center. Today, the campus serves almost 1,200 students majoring in nursing, physical therapy, library science, health care administration, occupational therapy and nutrition. TWU has the largest nursing program in Texas, with more than 2,200 nursing students, and produces more new nurses than any other program in the state. A nursing college will serve as the centerpiece of the new TWU Houston campus. TWU recently received a $3 million grant from the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation for the nursing center. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Friend is getting her Masters here. As you can tell, nobody really talks about this (building) and school. Does anyone have experience with the school, and staff, here? I asked why she didn't go to Anderson's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She said it was too expensive. Seems like it would be expensive indeed! I wonder if the TWU Houston campus would ever expand? They used to have several buildings near Methodist's campus but all that's left is this new building built 19 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 One of the cooler-designed building in the medical center. Very prominent stance, being the first building once you come from the underground METRO tunnel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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