Regents to Consider Significant Increase in Texas A&M-Fort Worth Construction Budget

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will convene at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, in the Bethancourt Ballroom 2300 in the Memorial Student Center on the campus of Texas A&M University. The Board will immediately recess to executive session. At approximately 1 p.m., the Board will reconvene in open session to consider:

• Significantly increasing the construction budget for the Law & Education Building at the Texas A&M-Fort Worth urban research campus. (See Press Availability Below)
• Construction funding for a new dock and infrastructure for an ocean-going training and research ship for the Texas A&M Maritime Academy.
• A new bachelor’s degree program in journalism at Texas A&M and authorization for the university to seek the approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
• Increasing the cost of the Engineering Classroom and Research Building at Texas A&M University at Galveston to $50,992,125.
• Early procurement of machinery and materials for Tarleton State University’s $110 million convocation center to address supply chain delays.
• A new $15.1 million Nuclear Engineering Education Building that will consolidate research faculty and labs for Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station in College Station.
• $6.4 million to construct a Propulsion Test Facility at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Turbomachinery Lab Project in College Station.

Members of the public may access the meeting at https://www.tamus.edu/regents/live-streams/ PRESS AVAILABILITY: At the conclusion of the meeting at approximately 2:30 p.m., Chancellor John Sharp and Deputy Chancellor Billy Hamilton will take questions about the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus on a WebEx. Join from the meeting link https://tamus.webex.com/tamus/j.php?MTID=mcc4acc7f9228d110ebb166b3181bbf08 Join by meeting number Meeting number (access code): 2594 941 2452 Meeting password: FortWorth23