What Texas A&M is doing to comply with a governor’s executive order regarding ”foreign adversaries”

This podcast contains comments from the July 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.

In November 2024, the governor issued an executive order banning state agencies, including state universities, from doing business with five countries and a politician he described as "foreign adversaries".

At the July meeting of the Texas A&M faculty senate, members hear the results of a committee that developed how to carry out what is nicknamed G-A 48.

Click HERE to read and download executive order G-A 48.

Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the July 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.

A&M compliance officer Jason Boyle said he is not personally optimistic of any changes being made to the ban applying to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba and the Venezuelan politician Nicolás Maduro.

Boyle also said one obstacle in finalizing the university's policy was getting consistency with other A&M system agencies.


Seven areas that are covered in G-A 48 are:

• Certification that vendors are not listed on an adversaries list
• No personnel can accept gifts from a foreign adversary entity or travel for TAMU purposes to a foreign adversary country
• Applicants must attest they are not connected to a foreign adversary
• Notification of personal travel to a country on the foreign adversary list
• Ensuring personnel that have access to critical infrastructure can maintain security and do not have criminal history or connections to foreign adversaries
• The reporting of foreign gift and contract disclosures to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• The prohibition of faculty and employees taking part in recruitment programs from foreign adversary nations