Texas A&M System Regents to Consider How to Reopen This Fall

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents will consider how to reopen the System’s 11 universities and eight state agencies for the 2020-2021 academic year during a special telephonic meeting on Friday.

The board will convene at 8:30 a.m. and go immediately into executive session.

Upon the board’s return to the public meeting, the agenda includes consideration and action on the following items:

1) Approval of the A&M System’s COVID-19 Response Plan for Reopening Member Campuses and Programs for 2020-2021

2) Establishment of the SecureAmerica Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Members of the public may access the meeting, except for any posted executive session held in compliance with the Open Meetings Act, at https://www.tamus.edu/regents/live-streams/

About The Texas A&M University System
The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $6.3 billion. The System is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies, including the Texas Division of Emergency Management; and the RELLIS Campus. The Texas A&M System educates more than 151,000 students and makes more than 22 million additional educational contacts through service and outreach programs each year. System-wide, research and development expenditures exceeded $1 billion in FY 2019 and helped drive the state’s economy.

Contact: Laylan Copelin
Vice Chancellor of Marketing and Communications
(979) 458-6425
(512) 289-2782 cell
lcopelin@tamus.edu