Delay in the formation of Texas A&M's new faculty advisory council

This podcast contains comments from the August 29, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.November 1 was the target date for Texas A&M's new faculty advisory council.This body, controlled by the board of regents and the president, was created by a new state law that eliminated A&M's faculty senate.Among other things, Senate Bill 37 requires the president to appoint the leadership and some members of the new faculty advisory council.The last speaker of the faculty senate, Andrew Klein, told WTAW News Wednesday (September 24) that "The next step will be to create a university rule that establishes the Faculty Advisory Council in compliance with the System Rule passed by the Regents at their August meeting and Senate Bill 37. Given the current administrative changes, it is unclear when the university will start the process to review the rule. Once the rule passes, new members of the committee would be appointed and elected. But at this point it is unclear when this would occur. So the brief answer is no appointments have been made as the rules establishing the new Council have yet to be established."Click HERE to read and download Senate Bill 37.Click HERE to read and download the Texas A&M system policy complying with SB 37 as passed by the board of regents August 28, 2025.Click HERE to read and download a DRAFT of Texas A&M rules complying with SB 37.The former faculty senate met for the last time on August 29th. The senate's final action was unanimous passage of a resolution regarding the transition to the new advisory council.Click HERE to read and download the resolution that was approved at the August 29, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.Before the resolution, speaker Andrew Klein gave a presentation about the 43 years of the faculty senate's work and looked ahead to the new advisory council.Click HERE to read and download Andrew Klein's presentation at the August 29, 2025 faculty senate meeting.WTAW News has e-mail an A&M spokesperson about the process of establishing the faculty advisory council following the resignation of president Mark Welsh.