SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2-4PM

Bethel Church of Houston - Fellowship Hall

825 Bering Drive; 77057

Please share our Howdy Party details with any new Aggie Moms you know and reply to this message with their names and e-mail addresses so we can invite them!

Founded in 2015, the TAMU Career Closet is a collaboration of the TAMU Career Center and TAMU Student Government Association (SGA). It was created to enhance the professionalism of Texas A&M students while alleviating the financial burden that is inherently associated with launching a career. 

At Texas A&M University, 42 percent of students demonstrate the need for financial assistance. When these students begin searching for jobs and internships, they require a professional wardrobe to obtain employment. Many of these students may not be equipped to purchase professional attire due to strict budgets. The Texas A&M Career Closet helps alleviate this burden by leasing professional attire to students at the subsidized rate of $5 to cover the cost of dry cleaning. The work of the Texas A&M Career Closet will ensure all students have equal opportunity to pursue the career of their dreams. 

How Houston Aggie Moms Can Help

1. Make a Financial Donation or an In-Kind Donation of Good-Condition Business Attire (that may have been outgrown and is still hanging in a closet?) Note that not all In-Kind Donations are accepted due to limited space. For more detailed donation information: Career Closet Donations
2. Tell your Aggies about the Career Closet and have them share the information with friends. You never know who needs this information! 

Links with more Career Closet Information

How It Works

Frequently Asked Questions

Directions to the Career Closet

The cost of textbooks can be astronomical, especially for student veterans living on education benefits alone. The Aggie Shields Textbook Lending Library lends those costly textbooks to our Aggie Veterans for no charge. 

Aggie Shields is a recognized student organization whose primary focus is to help alleviate the financial burden that Aggie Veterans face by providing them with textbooks at no cost through their Textbook Lending Library. In addition to textbooks, they have limited technical supplies available, such as iClickers and calculators. They also provide dependents/spouses with the opportunity to borrow any remaining unused volumes and supplies. The Textbook Lending Library is operated by the organization's volunteer student officers and members and relies solely on donations for operating costs and textbook purchases. 

The library is housed within the Don & Ellie Knauss Veteran Resource & Support Center (MSC, Suite 1500) for the convenience of our veterans and the cost-efficiency of the organization, and also offers quiet study spaces, two open-access labs, a Smartboard, a bluetooth printer, and personal lockers for Aggie Veteran use. 

How Houston Aggie Moms Can Help

Does your Aggie have textbooks, calculators, clickers, etc, that are no longer needed and you don't know what to do with them? This is the perfect home for those items. Pack them up in a box and drop them off at the front desk at the Don & Ellie Knauss Veteran Resource & Support Center (MSC, Suite 1500). Most used textbooks will get very little money when sold back to the bookstore. This is a wonderful home for those items to fill a need at TAMU! No appointment is needed to drop off textbooks and Supplies during open hours (listed below). 

More information is in this link: Aggie Shields Webpage 

Veterans Resource Center 

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm
Phone: +1 (979) 845-3161 

Did you know that many Aggies choose not to walk for graduation because of the cost of the graduation regalia? 

There is a Facebook group, Aggies Helping Aggies (AHA), that has realized this need and has recently organized as a non-profit in Texas. Originally organized to continue using crowdsourcing to fund Aggie rings, they also created a Graduation Robe Closet to help Aggies be able to walk at graduation. The official name of the recently formed non-profit entity is Aggies Helping Aggies, Inc., and their Texas Certificate of Filing for non-profit status is filing #805812450 (as posted on Facebook). 

This group has organized a Graduation Robe (Cap/Gown/Tassel) Closet and helped over 40 Aggies walk this past weekend who would not have without the loan of the Graduation Regalia. 

TC Langford (College Station) and Cindy Dobs Hon (Collin County) are the admins for the AHA Facebook group and are 2 of the 3 founding board members of the new non-profit entity. They also coordinate the Graduation Robe Closet. They can be reached at AggieRobeCloset@gmail.com 

How Houston Aggie Moms Can Help

1. Do you have a recent graduate who does not know what to do with their robe/cap/tassel? The Graduation Robe Closet can put it to great use! Email TC or Cindy at AggieRobeCloset@gmail.com to arrange to send or drop it off. 
2. Monetary donations for Aggie rings and costs to operate the Graduation Robe closet can be made online, and you will receive a tax-deductible receipt. More information on the AHA group is on this page, too. The link to donate is here: AHA Donations
3. Spread the word! Let others know of this great service to help others who need loaned graduation regalia find this resource.