Texas Southern University, one of the nation's largest HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), possesses an impressive array of undergraduate and graduate programs, a diverse faculty, 80-plus student organizations, and an alumni network comprised of educators, entrepreneurs, public servants, lawyers, pilots, artists, and more, many of whom are change agents on the local, national and international stage.
Texas Southern is located in the heart of the city, in Houston's historic Third Ward, giving its students and faculty easy access to the Museum District, neighboring educational institutions (Houston Community College, the University of Houston, Rice University, and the University of St. Thomas), the Texas Medical Center, City Hall, downtown Houston, and all of the city's major freeways.
More than 9,500 students, along with nearly 1,500 faculty and staff comprise the University's community, and like its curricula, the student body is characterized by diversity. While many of the undergraduate and graduate students enrolled are native Texans, the student and faculty population is represented by almost every state in the country, including the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and by more than 50 nations. Texas Southern's international student population hails from such places as Africa, Canada, the Canal Zone, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Europe, Mexico, South Asia, and the West Indies.
The Root provides a needed specialized ministry to students during their college years while working in conjunction with local Baptist churches. The BSM is a student lead organization, headed by students who will implement the program areas. The BSM is three things in one: a fellowship of the students, a program for the students, and an organization involving the students.
The mission is twofold: To help ourselves and other persons find their identity through a personal relationship with God and man. To achieve a full and purposeful life through collaboration with God in loving service to others.
The vision provides us with a picture of what the mission will look like as it is realized. We exist as an organization to glorify God on the campus of TSU by sharing Christ so students can know Him as personal Savior and Lord, becoming fruit bearing follows in both character change and reaching the lost. (Col. 1:28-29, Matt. 9:37-38, Matt. 28:19-20)
