That's a fact. In 1992, a state court in Brownsville agreed that lawmakers had failed to provide a quality system of colleges along the border. The case was reversed in 1992, but by then legislators already were shuffling money southward via the South Texas Border Initiative. Public health scholars and medical residents will arrive once the Regional Academic Health Center is built. But there are no plans for a traditional medical school or a law school.
Students still face holes and shortfalls in the undergraduate curriculum.
More advanced students are offered a limited number of masters' programs. It's important to realize that we're not through. Hemmed on the south end by the Border Patrol trucks and barbed wire of the Rio Grande, the Brownsville campus is a 19th century army base built, as Garcia quips, to keep out the Mexicans. Garcia is frustrated. Equal funding isn't really equal, she argues, when her university started the race 100 years behind.