Council of Presidents Elects Universities into SURA Membership

The SURA Council of Presidents voted into SURA membership Baylor University and Oklahoma State University. Baylor University (President Robert Sloan, Jr.) becomes the fifth SURA member from Texas, in addition to the University of Houston, Rice University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A & M. Oklahoma State University (President and CEO David Schmidly) is the second SURA member from the state of Oklahoma, in addition to the University of Oklahoma. With these two new members, SURA becomes a 62-member university consortium with a geographic footprint covering 16 southern states and the District of Columbia. The presidents from these two new member universities will be appointing their institutional trustees to the SURA Board.