Student member of the Texas A&M system board of regents summarizes his one year appointment

This podcast contains comments from the May 29, 2025 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting.The May meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents was the last one of the academic year for the one member who does not get to vote. But the student regent for the 2024-2025 academic year says his input was welcomed.Cage Sawyers of Van Alstyne, north of Dallas, thanked the board for allowing him to contribute.Sawyers, who graduated last month from the Texas A&M law school, said his A&M story goes back to 2003 when at five years old he attended an Aggie football game.Sawyers says during visits at 11 system universities, students wanted the system to embrace Hispanics, go all in on rural Texas, and do more tangible things to prepare graduates for the workforce.The student regent is appointed by the governor to represent 165,000 attending A&M system universities.The student regent for the 2025-2026 year is Prairie View A&M student Jaquavous Doucette of Fort Worth.And the governor appointed a Texas A&M student, Lisa Cantu of Mission, to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.