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Serve the Panhandle and Its Heart (The I-27 Corridor and Route 66)
ASPIRATION
… the region more generally lack(s) “good” jobs, the kind of jobs that attract and retain college-educated “white collar” workers. It is a familiar story that the region loses its younger generation to other places where opportunity is greater. Many parents help their children through college in full expectation that they will be sending them “away” for jobs elsewhere. 12
The University’s relationship to its community is critical. Schools, industries, businesses and cultural activities all play a pivotal role in building a quality place to live and study. This is a mutually reinforcing phenomenon.
While the Amarillo area has seen growth over the last decade, it has generally
been at the expense of the smaller communities spread across the Panhandle.
WT will work to foster a quality of life and opportunity that will result in
thriving communities across the region. It will succeed at those goals only by
joining with renewed commitment to the communities of the Panhandle to
address needs and expand opportunity.
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Two keys to this university-community cooperation are the need to unite
Amarillo and Canyon in shared effort and to bring the needs and assets of
the rural communities to this work. The heart of the Texas Panhandle is the
I-27 Corridor and Route 66.
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