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Board of Regents

Welcome to the Board of Regents web page. The Board of Regents is the governing body of the University of Houston System (University of Houston, University of Houston-Clear Lake, University of Houston-Downtown, University of Houston-Victoria, UH System at Cinco Ranch, UH System at Sugar Land, KUHT Television, and KUHF Radio).

The Board of Regents is composed of nine members (chair, vice chair, secretary, and six members). Every two years, the Governor of the State of Texas, subject to Senate confirmation, appoints three members to the Board of Regents. Each member serves a six-year term.

Board responsibilities include: preserving institutional independence and defending each UH System component university’s right to manage its own affairs through its chosen administrators and employees; enhancing each university’s public image; interpreting the community to each of the universities and the universities to the community; nurturing each university so that each may achieve its full potential within its role and mission; and providing policy direction, insisting on clarity of focus and mission, to each of the universities.

Additional responsibilities of the board are listed in the bylaws of the Board of Regents.

The board staff support includes Executive Administrator, Gerry Mathisen and Executive Secretary, Marquette Hobbs.

University of Houston System
Board of Regents Office
4800 Calhoun
128 E. Cullen Building
Houston, TX 77204-6001

Telephone: 832-842-3444
Fax: 713-743-3495
email: glmathisen@central.uh.edu