The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will meet Nov. 11 and 12 in College Station and vote on the next construction phase of the semiconductor institute going up at its research campus in Bryan.
The board set that project’s budget at $205.5 million in February and broke ground in April. The institute is a system-wide research and training center on the RELLIS campus, about eight miles from the main campus, and is paid for in part with $113.7 million from the state semiconductor account the Legislature created in 2023 and $48.1 million borrowed against the system’s endowment. November’s item asks for the same three things February’s did — project scope, money for construction services and approval to build part of it. The notice does not say how much, and the system had not posted its agenda book as of Nov. 6.
Thirteen other building items travel with it, among them a residence hall at Prairie View A&M, a sea turtle hospital at Galveston and a health building in McAllen. Further down the consent agenda, where items pass in a single motion unless a regent pulls one, sits the establishment of a Center for the Study of War and Society at Texas A&M. The Dispatch found no announcement, board document or prior coverage describing what the center would do.
The regents will spend most of Nov. 11 behind closed doors, and the litigation they plan to discuss there runs to five cases. Two are before the full Fifth Circuit, which heard argument Sept. 23 on the system’s 2025 ban on drag performances and on a related case from West Texas A&M; neither has been decided. A third, filed in August by the American Association of University Professors, challenges the system’s review of course content on constitutional grounds. No ruling on the professors’ request for an injunction has been reported, and no findings have been made in any of the five.
Three of the nine regent seats, the chairman’s among them, expire Feb. 1, 2027 — about two weeks after Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa takes office. The board elects its own chairman.
Meeting at a glance
- When
- 11:00 AM, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, recessing immediately to executive session. Open session will resume 9:30 a.m. Thursday, November 12. TRD 2026006624 was filed November 5 at 5:08 p.m.
- Where
- Board Meeting Room, Board of Regents Annex, 100 Gene Stallings Blvd., and the Bernard C. Richardson Zone at Kyle Field, fourth floor, College Station.
- Governing body & chair
- Texas A&M University System Board of Regents — nine members appointed by the governor to six-year terms, plus a non-voting student regent. Robert L. Albritton, chairman. Glenn Hegar is chancellor.
- Format
- In person over two days. Five standing committees meet Thursday morning and afternoon; the full board then acts on roughly fifty items. Public testimony requires written notice 24 hours ahead.
- Live video
- Open sessions stream at the system’s live-streams page, which carried no November link as of Nov. 6.
- Full agenda
- Secretary of State Open Meeting Viewer · agenda book
Board members
- Robert L. “Bob” Albritton — chairman; Fort Worth; chairman and CEO, Mayfair Investments.
- Jay Graham — vice chairman; chairman and CEO, Spur Energy Partners.
- David C. Baggett — Houston; chairman and managing partner, Opportune LLP.
- John W. Bellinger — San Antonio; co-founder, Food Safety Net Services.
- James R. “Randy” Brooks — San Angelo; partner, BNB Ventures.
- Michael A. “Mike” Hernandez III — Fort Worth; owner and CEO, D&M Leasing.
- William “Bill” Mahomes Jr. — Dallas; of counsel, Bracewell LLP.
- Kelley Sullivan Georgiades — executive, Sullivan Brothers Family of Companies; Santa Rosa Ranch.
- R. Sam Torn — Houston; owner, Camp Ozark and Camp OTX.
- Lisa D. Cantu — student regent; Mission; Texas A&M doctoral student.
All nine seats are filled. Names and identifiers are from the system’s regents page, checked November 6, and cross-checked against the governor’s appointment releases. Three home cities are in dispute between the two sources and are handled accordingly: the system places Graham in Bryan and the governor’s office in Houston; the system describes Georgiades as a Galveston native ranching near Navasota and Millican, the governor’s office as of Houston; the system’s bio for Brooks omits a city, and San Angelo is the governor’s. Albritton was elected chairman in April 2025. The terms of Albritton, Brooks and Mahomes expire February 1, 2027.