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Royce West

State senator, D-Dallas

Royce West was first elected to the Texas Senate in November 1992. He is Vice Chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee and is a member of Senate committees on Administration, Education and Finance.

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Higher Education

Long road of U.S. race relations passes through Texas A&M campus

By Royce West, Feb. 18, 2016

The discourse that began after a race-related incident this week on the Texas A&M campus is not new to the state or the country. It is a road that has been traveled before and lingers to be frequented again.