Rebranding is one of the main subjects at this week’s meeting of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
Chancellor John Sharp says adding the phrase “Texas A&M” to the names of seven agencies means millions of dollars of additional exposure.
The change, effective September 1st, would not apply to Prairie View and Tarleton State Universities because legislative action would be required.
WTAW’s Bill Oliver visits with John Sharp.
WTAW’s Chelsea Reber visits with Peggi Ondrasek, United Way of the Brazos Valley President and CEO, and Leiha White and Kim Dimmett from the Sexual Assault Resource Center of the Brazos Valley. Listen to “United Way of the Brazos Valley update with partner agency SARC” on Spreaker.
The winner of the College Station city council place six race is Scott Shafer. After provisional, military, and overseas ballots were counted at the Brazos County elections office Tuesday night (November 12), Shafer won by 221 votes. Shafer gained 46 votes and Tre Watson gained 40. The final result was up in the air after election night results on November 5th showed Shafer led Watson by 215 votes with more than 800 provisional, military, and overseas ballots to be considered. The report issued by the elections office Tuesday night shows voter turnout of almost 70 percent, with 92,626 voting out of 132,601 who are registered in Brazos County. Click HERE to read and download the final unofficial cumulative results of the November election, courtesy of the Brazos County elections office.
The Texas A&M system board of regents agrees to raise fees for three existing graduate level programs at the flagship campus. But two of the nine regents voted no to increase fees for two existing graduate programs at the Mays Business School and one existing graduate program in the College of Arts and Sciences because they were against any increases. There were unanimous votes approving a fee change in another Mays graduate program that was determined to be cost neutral, and to set fees in two new Mays graduate programs. Click HERE to read and download background on what was approved at the November 7, 2024 board of regents meeting. During the November 7th meeting of the regents finance committee, John Bellinger of San Antonio said he will continue to vote against increases until the system adopts an efficiency program at all system universities. Mike Hernandez of Fort Worth also voted no. That’s after president Mark Welsh told Hernandez during the finance committee meeting that he did not know if an attempt was made to offset some of the additional expenses. Welsh did say that he is calling on next year’s budget submissions from the colleges on the main campus to identify a percentage of their budget that could eliminate existing programs to pay for new programs. Click below to hear comments from the November 12, 2024 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting.
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