Texas A&M Provost Issues Two Messages Following The President’s Resignation

Screen shot from https://provost.tamu.edu/index.html
Screen shot from https://provost.tamu.edu/index.html

Texas A&M’s chief academic officer issues two statements since the resignation of president Mark Welsh.

Provost Alan Sams posted on his website the day before last Friday’s special meeting of the board of regents (September 26) that an interim president could be named in the next week or two. And A&M’s annual convocation and state of the university address that was scheduled for this week has been postponed. Following the personnel decisions by Mark Welsh that to his resignation, Sams’s website message said “Professionalism and respect are shared responsibilities of all instructors, teaching assistants, and students and concerns about a class are best addressed when communicated through your appropriate department or college/school channels.”

After the regents special meeting, Sams wrote an e-mail to faculty and staff saying in part that A&M “is not and has never been defined by outside points of view”…something that some believe resulted in Welsh’s resignation. Sams also wrote that he wanted to reaffirm “that academic freedom, intellectual inquiry and freedom of speech are essential to our institution and will remain such. Alongside that commitment, we will work to bring clarity to and uphold academic responsibility as equally important to academic freedom.”

Screen shots from a September 24, 2025 post at https://provost.tamu.edu/news/provost-messages-all.html

Screen shots from https://provost.tamu.edu/news/provost-messages-all.html
Screen shots from https://provost.tamu.edu/news/provost-messages-all.html

Screen shots from a September 25, 2025 e-mail from Texas A&M provost Alan Sams to faculty and staff:

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