6 Texas A&M International University 1 - OVERVIEW Campus Evolution From Concept to Campus Texas A&M University was established by the Texas State Legislature in 1969 (originally known as Texas A&I University at Laredo and later Laredo State Univeristy), and shared space with Laredo Junior College for its first two plus decades. Beginning in with the completion of the original campus master plan in 1992 and the donation of 300 acres of land by the Killam family shortly thereafter, Texas A&M International University took its first steps to establish a new and permanent campus on the northeast edge of Laredo. The original plan for the campus was laid out along a north-south pedestrian axis with buildings closely framing building plazas, courtyards, and one larger quad, surrounded by a ring road and parking. Beginning with Killam Library, the campus plan has hewed to this original concept with a high degree of fidelity, earliest and northernmost buildings which frame the main and most formal quad in particular. Moving further south and later in the development of campus, the original form of the campus plan becomes somewhat looser, but continues the north-south axis which forms the backbone of the campus. The newest buildings, the Academic Innovation Center (AIC) and University Police Department expand on the east west spine that further draws out the cruciform shape shown in the original plan. Over the first 30 years of the TAMIU campus, an extraordinary amount of development has taken place, growing to its current size of 24 buildings and approximately 1.2 million square feet of total space. The original campus plan vision has largely been realized and built out as it was first intended. This plan, therefore, seeks to establish a new vision for the next thirty years and perhaps beyond, to imagine what the TAMIU campus may be a full generation or more into the future. Original Campus Plan, early 1990s
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