The Resolution:
Members, Board of Regents
The Texas A&M University System
Subject: Resolution Recognizing the Importance of the Bryan-College Station Community to
Texas A&M University
Approval of the following resolution honoring the historical connections and importance of the
Bryan-College Station community to Texas A&M University is recommended:
"WHEREAS, Aggieland has grown beyond the boundaries of any one municipality; and
WHEREAS, College Station is known as the "Home of Texas A&M University"; and
WHEREAS, the City of College Station and the City of Bryan have had an entwined history since
the City of College Station was incorporated in 1938; and
WHEREAS, Bryan and Texas A&M University's historical ties go back to 1871, when Bryan was incorporated and the Texas Legislature established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; and
WHEREAS, College Station and Texas A&M University are synonymous, with the city owing
its name and existence to the Agricultural and Mechanical College's location along the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, receiving the designation "College Station, Texas" by the U.S. Postal Service in 1877; and
WHEREAS, the City of College Station was incorporated after a petition was submitted to the
A&M College of Texas board of directors, and the first city council was comprised of A&M faculty members and met in the administration building; and
WHEREAS, Kyle Field, home to Aggie Football since 1905, is located in College Station, and
in 2013 College Station guaranteed up to $36 million in hotel tax revenues toward the renovation
of Kyle Field; and
WHEREAS, Bryan Army Air Field was used as the Texas A&M University Annex for incoming
Corps of Cadets freshmen and returning veterans in 1946; and
WHEREAS, in 1962, Bryan Air Force Base was deeded to Texas A&M University, adding 1,991 acres; and
WHEREAS, the former Bryan Air Force Base was operated as the Texas A&M University
Research and Extension Center for a quarter of a century before being designated as the Texas A&M University Riverside Campus in 1988; and
WHEREAS, the Texas A&M University Riverside Campus grew into the Texas A&M University
Research Annex before transforming into the RELLIS Campus in 2016, home to Texas A&M University System entities including ten regional universities, the Texas A&M Engineering
Extension Service (TEEX), the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI); and
WHEREAS, in 2007, the City of Bryan gifted more than 200 acres to the Texas A&M University
Health Science Center; and
WHEREAS, recognizing the long history and partnership between the City of Bryan, the City of
College Station and both Texas A&M University and The Texas A&M University System; and
WHEREAS, recognizing that over the past decade, Texas A&M University and The Texas A&M
University System have expanded into the City of Bryan with seven Texas A&M University System colleges, ten Texas A&M University System universities and multiple Texas A&M University System state agencies on more than 2,200 acres with more than $1 billion in investment; and
WHEREAS, Texas A&M University will always be the institution's official name; and
WHEREAS, there is no intent to change the university's official name; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System and the President of Texas A&M University will use "Bryan-College Station" only in any general location references where College Station would have been used in the past, including references at
all sporting events, academic events, press releases, marketing collateral, letterhead, and other
representations of Texas A&M University and The Texas A&M University System where a
specific postal address is not required.
ADOPTED, this 20th day of August 2020