Texas State University in San Marcos is one of the seven institutions where the faculty senates are dissolving Sept. 1 due to a new state law.

Texas State University

Faculty senates across the seven Texas State University system institutions will dissolve Sept. 1, but the system’s Board of Regents plans to approve new ones, a system spokesperson says.

Under a new Texas law, only a public college or university’s governing board, such as the Board of Regents, can create a faculty council or senate. If a board keeps one, Senate Bill 37 further says the university president gets to pick the “presiding officer, associate presiding officer, and secretary” and prescribe how the senate conducts meetings.

Also, unless the board decides otherwise, faculty senates must shrink to no more than 60

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