Meetings and Events
Council meeting dates and information regarding traditional events
are provided below.
CPUPC Meetings
Above: Council members with Dr. Charles L. Welch/AASCU (January 2024).
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UPCOMING CPUPC Meetings and Events:
--CPUPC Quarterly Meeting (Q4 FY26)
July 21, 2026
(Coordinating Board, July 22, 2026)
--CPUPC Quarterly Meeting (Q1 FY27)
October 20, 2026
(Coordinating Board, October 21, 2026)
When scheduling permits, Council meetings are held Tuesday afternoons before the quarterly THECB meetings.
Annual Texas Higher Education Distinguished Service Award
The 2025 Award Ceremony honored The Moody Foundation as the award recipients for this year's Texas Higher Education Distinguished Service Award. Chair of the Moody Foundation, Ms. Frances Moody-Dahlberg, and Vice President Ross R. Moody attended the luncheon representing the Moody Foundation.
Galveston College nominated The Moody Foundation for the award, and members of the nominating committee overwhelmingly concurred with the selection. The nomination is testimony to the Moody Foundation's dedication and long-standing partnership supporting educational institutions.
The Moody Foundation has invested over $500M in educational support over the last decade. Most recently, the Foundation pledged a total of $1B to Texas Education including a commitment to the M-Pact fund by the year 2035. Many public universities and colleges have benefited from endowments supported by the Moody Foundation.
The Council is pleased to partner with colleagues represented by the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT) and the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) to present the annual Texas Higher Education Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to higher education in Texas.
The Association of Texas Colleges and Universities (ATCU) initially sponsored this award, beginning in 1977. Since 2008, CPUPC, ICUT, and TACC have continued the tradition of this award and look forward to the ceremony each January.
Honorees are listed here.
Promoting Texas Research
Council members are pleased to support the following initiatives highlighting and promoting the value of Texas' public university research:
(1) The Council and THECB co-hosted a Higher Education Innovation Leaders Roundtable with DARPA Leadership on March 11, 2024.
(2) NIH All of Us Research Program: A webinar was conducted November 8, with resource information provided below:
--Overview of All of Us and Texas participating institutions, here.(updated 11-7-23)
--Texas All of Us webinar slide deck, here.
--Texas All of Us webinar recording link.
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--Q&A responses from the webinar, here. (added Nov. 30, 2023)
(3) Membership opportunity with the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS).
(4) Support programming with the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology (TAMEST)