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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents unanimously voted to authorize a settlement with former Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III during a meeting on Friday.

A system spokesperson said Friday they couldn’t share details of the agreement with Welsh until it was finalized. Chair Robert L. Albritton said the regents had seen the agreement before voting to authorize it.

The vote follows weeks of turbulence at Texas A&M, after state Rep. Brian Harrison posted a video on Sept. 8 that went viral on X of a student confronting a professor over gender-identity content in a children’s literature course. Republican lawmakers called for firings ov

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