Pizza with the President rolls out with pizzazz

Christian Hardigree, Texas A&M University-Victoria president, slices into a larger-than-life pizza during the Pizza with the President event on Oct. 15 at the Health & Wellness Center lawn. The event was part of the presidential investiture week festivities and invited the university’s students to come have lunch, play yard games and get to know President Hardigree in person. The pizza was cooked by Dirt Road Cookers, a family business based out of Hondo that specializes in producing large 8-foot pizzas.

Texas A&M University-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 50 academic programs in the colleges of Business, Education & Health Professions, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, and Natural & Applied Science. A&M-Victoria provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as online classes that students can take from anywhere. The university supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.