TEXARKANA, Texas – Texas A&M University-Texarkana has announced the official opening of the new Center for Financial Literacy and Investment (CFLI). A part of the university’s Better East Texas Initiative,
Graduates attended a December Texas A&M University commencement ceremony at Reed Arena in College Station. The A&M System is among higher education institutions that will still require people to wear face masks. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
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Several Texas colleges and universities
will still require people to wear face masks after Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he will lift the statewide mask mandate and other COVID-19 restrictions starting Wednesday.
Those institutions’ decisions come as COVID-19 continues to spread across the state and Houston became the first city to record cases of all major COVID-19 variants. As of March 3, only 7.5% of Texans have been fully vaccinated far below the recommended threshold for rolling back safety restrictions. Local leaders criticized Abbott’s decision, sayi