AGOSS Programs

Aggieland Market

Aggieland Market is a one day community-to-campus connection for students, faculty, staff and area businesses at the beginning of the Fall semester. On the Friday of Gig 'Em Week (Aggieland's Week of Welcome), approximately 80 businesses come to campus to promote their services and to sell goods. You can pick up coupons, buy food, learn about new technologies, and much more. Looking for a new hair salon or trying to find out where to get your car serviced before you head home? This can all be answered in one visit.

Aggie Up!

The Aggie Up Campaign is a cooperative campaign between Texas A&M University and the Cities of Bryan and College Station to help integrate students into community and neighborhood living in a respectful and safe manner so their Aggie experience will be positive both on and off-campus.  The Texas A&M Office of Student Life, Off-Campus Aggies, College Station Police, College Station Fire Department, College Station Code Enforcement, Neighborhood Services and Community Relations Office, and the Bryan Police Department Neighborhood Enforcement Team collaborate on various community outreach projects. The Aggie Up Campaign is an effort to bring all the programs and services under one umbrella that are working to give students the information and education that they need to become fully integrated citizens of Bryan and College Station while they live here.

Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week

Texas A&M University participates in the nationally recognized appreciation week for graduate and professional students. Graduate students comprise 18% of our campus population, and this week, in early April is a way to recognize the outstanding accomplishments and contributions each student makes to the campus community. While recognition events change yearly, events are posted at the beginning of the spring semester.

Graduate Student Wine Tasting

Graduate students may register to attend this annual event held in the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Building. Each fall, The Association of Former Students, the Office of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Student Council, and Adult, Graduate and Off Campus Student Services welcome 250 graduate students to taste the flavors of a highlighted vineyard. Keep your eyes open for more information on this year's event.  Registration for the Fall 2009 Graduate Student Wine Tasting available here.

Housing Fair

The Housing Fair is an annual event that takes place each spring semester. It is an opportunity for you to do one-stop shopping for a new place to live. Each February, 50+ leasing agencies and apartment complexes reserve tables in the Memorial Student Center to provide detailed information to students and parents looking for information about living off campus. Local community services, such as the Bryan/College Station police departments and recycling, and university departments, such as Transportation Services and Dining Services, also sponsor booths to provide valuable information for you as an off campus student

Non-Traditional Student Appreciation Week

Held the first full week of November each year, Non-Traditional Student Appreciation Week is designed to recognize both the contributions made by adult learners and the efforts made by others to support adult learners at Texas A&M University. This national week of recognition is coordinated by the Association for Non-Traditional Students in Higher Education. Recognition events change yearly, and events are posted at the beginning of the spring semester.

Off Campus Marketing Package

The Marketing Package offers several opportunities for properties to publicize their housing options. The property will be added into AGOSS publications, allowed to keep brochures in our office for student use and list their property in AggieSearch. Purchasing the Marketing Package also enables properties to purchase graphical ads in the Off Campus Survival Manual and register for the 2010 Housing Fair.

Roommate Survivor

Description coming soon.

Spring Aggieland Market

The purpose of Spring Aggieland Market is to foster a relationship between Texas A&M University and the Bryan/College Station community through those businesses and community agencies that serve the students, faculty and staff members of Texas A&M University. Sponsored by TAMU Adult, Graduate and Off Campus Student Services, Aggieland Market is a vendor fair connecting campus and community through activities, and giveaways. Aggieland Market provides an opportunity for Texas A&M students, faculty, and staff to become familiar or reacquainted with the TAMU campus, fellow Aggies, and the B/CS community.

Student Research Week

Student Research Week (SRW) is the signature program of the Graduate Student Council. SRW occurs the last week of March and is the largest student-run research competition in the United States. SRW is designed to highlight student research at both the undergraduate and graduate level through both poster and oral presentations. Faculty and staff from across the institution volunteer to judge presentations that are clustered based on specific research taxonomies. Prizes are awarded at several levels throughout the week-long competition. Keynote speakers and special panels offer highlighted information based on each year's topical theme.

Walk & Talks

The Neighborhood Walk and Talk Program has been designed as an educational opportunity for our students living in residential areas. The walks occur during the first few weeks of the fall and spring semesters. The purpose of the walk and talk is to distribute information to the residents of that neighbor about what it means being a good neighbor. Items distributed can include information on code violations and enforcement, community standards, who to call in an emergency, seat belt safety, and other safety information. Neighborhoods are selected based on accumulated data for health, safety and general code violations issued, along with the number of rental property or owner occupied rental property in the neighborhood.