This story originally appeared on fortworthreport.org
As the windows of the Texas A&M-Fort Worth downtown campus go up, the vision for the academic programs and business hubs that will be part of the urban university are coming more into focus.
“We’re building this campus, and we’re building this kind of innovation district,” said Robert Ahdieh, chief operating officer of Texas A&M-Fort Worth. “But really it’s the content that’s going to flow into those buildings that really is going to be transformative.”
Ahdieh is directing the academic offerings that the campus will bring. Many of those programs will be in the university’s Law and Education Building that is scheduled to open in 2026.
The campus will have academic programs in engineering, nursing, business and performance, visualization and fine arts, Ahdieh said. One class in visual production is already here, operating in rented space in Winfield Place.
But on the business side, there will be hubs — or academic and industry collaborations — in aerospace, agriculture, entrepreneurship, workforce education, health care innovation, and media and entertainment. More than 100 business and academic leaders fleshed out their ideas for industry-specific business hubs at a Texas A&M Innovation Summit in downtown last week.
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