Davidlfj

Let's see, first of all, I have attended both universities, and I prefer UHD. I think the faculty is more competent, I know that the staff is, and I prefer the small classroom environment. I am graduating this spring with a BBA in Accounting (not Accountancy Ford_Guy) from the UHD College of Business. Both UHD and UH-Main are accredited by the AACSB, which only about 15% of universities in the US are, and the classes needed for graduation at UHD are the same as at UH-Main, except that UHD requires one extra class (Business Cornerstone). I will agree with you that UH-Main is more prestigious than UHD, but that is exactly the point. UHD is for real people, who have lives, jobs, family, and responsibility. This is one of the reasons it costs far less (about 30-40% compared to UH-Central), has open admissions, and FULL-TIME FACULTY. Not all of the faculty at UHD are adjuncts, in fact most are full-time. When I was at UH-Main most of what I saw was what I was, an irresponsible teenager. I see some of that at UHD, but in my experience it is a much smaller percentage. Most of the people I see are there to get a degree that doesn't cost them a small fortune, and UH-Main is expensive if you are paying for it yourself, like I was. Let's face it, if you are a white male in this country there aren't ANY scholarships just for you, like there are for EVERY minority, and the ones you can apply for you are competing with everyone including the minorities that applied for that minority scholarship too. My high school, in Cy-Fair ISD, gave us out a list of scholarships that was about 35 pages long, and out of that only about 6 scholarships were even available to me as a white guy (there were about 65 scholarships in that list btw). I am completely ok with UHD changing its name, so long as it is something that stays in-line with their mission statement (University of Hopes and Dreams isn't one of them). The students of UHD recently were given a survey of possible names for UHD and were asked to pick the 5 they most liked. Some of the stuff on there was just plain ridiculous. Gulf State University, Gulf Coast University, Seguin State University...the list of epic fails goes on. Personally, I would prefer something like Houston Central University or maybe Diversity University (just kidding on that one, lol). On the same subject, I know plenty of people who recognize that UHD and UH-Main are different campuses, but not that they are autonomous institutions belonging to the same board of oversight. To confuse where the campuses are is just lunacy though because UH-Main isn't even in downtown Houston, it is a few miles from it in an area significantly less safe than UHD. Simply put, if an HR employee in charge of hiring business students, for example, doesn't know the difference between UH-Main and UHD, then they need to gain some insight and perspective. I do agree that most of the time (not always though) a company is looking for the piece of paper rather than what is on it, and the gpa helps some. As a final note, UH-Main is too expensive, as well as almost all Texas public universities...thanks Gov. Perry for being a moron.

I would just like to say that first of all, Ford_Guy, you should really re-read your posts for errors..."but never late than ever," pretty sure the saying is "better late than never." UHD, UH-Main, UH-Clear Lake, and UH-Victoria ARE CONNECTED. The president of each school sits on a UH board of presidents. They are the ones who make the decisions for each school. To say that they aren't connected is pretty silly. Even if UHD wasn't connected, UH-Main Campus would still be referred to as the central or main campus because you still have the Clear Lake and the Victoria Campus. For someone talking about how people lying is so wrong, why do you lie about the fact that you only attended UH-Main Campus? In an earlier post on this very discussion you said that you attended UHD for one class. One is not the same as none, so you went to both UHD and UH-Central. Also, UHD has not changed its name yet. It will probably be taking place late next year (2010).