page_title: Texas Southern University
section_title: Leonard H.O. Spearman Technology
hierarchical_section_title: Texas Southern University / Notable buildings / Leonard H.O. Spearman Technology
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonard H.O. Spearman Technology building
context_page_description: Texas Southern University is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive HBCUs in the nation with over 10,000 students enrolled and over 100 academic programs. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
  Texas Southern University is an important institution in Houston's Third Ward. Dr. Alvia Wardlaw of Cite: The Architecture + Design Review of Houston wrote that the university serves as "the cultural and community center of" the Third Ward area where it is located, in addition to being its university. The university also serves as a notable economic resource for Greater Houston, contributing over $500 million to the region's gross sales and being directly and indirectly responsible for over 3,000 jobs.
  Texas Southern University intercollegiate sports teams, the Tigers, compete in NCAA Division I and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The university recruits nationwide for its Ocean of Soul marching band.
context_section_description: In 2014, TSU unveiled a $31 million, 108,000-square-foot, four-story structure named after the school's fifth president.  In addition to having 35 labs, the facility is home to a Tier 1 University Transportation Center, the Center for Transportation Training and Research, and the National Science Foundation Center for Research on Complex Networks. The departments of Engineering, Transportation Studies, Computer Science, Industrial Technology, Physics, and Aviation Science and Technology academic programs are housed in the building. TSU is the only four-year state supported university in Texas to offer a Pilot Ground School course and the first HBCU to implement a Maritime Transportation degree program.
caption: Leonard H.O. Spearman building
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