Below you can find information and resources for anyone impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Please note that this is the only official communication outlet for the TAMUG Administration. If you have additional questions regarding the state of campus or additional services, please email infoline@tamug.edu.
With the passing of Tropical Storm Harvey, we are holding to our previously announced plan to reopen the campus for classes on Monday, Labor Day, September 4. This has been a challenging time for all of us and we thank all of you, immediate and extended Aggie family, for your patience, flexibility, and support as we work to reopen our campus. We will get through this together. Personnel have already begun returning to campus and are currently correcting any issues to get campus ready for operations. Friday, September 1
We would like to reiterate that safety is paramount. Please do not travel if it is unsafe. Also, be aware that it will be a couple of days before stores and gas stations will be fully restocked on the island, so plan to get a full tank of gas before you travel as well as water, bug spray, and anything you might need for the trip. Continue to monitor www.tamug.edu and Sea Aggie Alert for the latest updates and information. If you have any questions, please contact us at infoline@tamug.edu.
Classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, Labor Day, Sept 04. All classes for undergraduate and graduate students, including TAMU Engineering at Galveston, will begin on Monday, Labor Day, September 4, 2017. The adjusted academic calendar is presented below. All faculty are developing plans of how they will incorporate the missed contact hours (lecture, labs, etc) into the first 5 weeks of classes. This will be posted on Howdy before the first class day.
We understand that a number of our students have been impacted by Harvey. We will be flexible to facilitate your semester. We know that many of you have family and loved ones in harm's way. For the impacted students, we are declaring any needed absences as University Excused absences pursuant to Student Rules. Student Rule related to absences can be found here.
If you need to use this excused absence, please notify your professors in writing (email is acceptable) prior to September 4th (the start of school).
If you need advising support to change your schedule, please contact your academic department advisor, Office of Graduate Studies or Academic Enhancement. All offices will be open and available on Monday. We ask your patience as we return to work.
Our Counseling and Disabilities Services staff will be in place on Monday and throughout the semester to help support you. Thank you for your flexibility. We are doing our best to get the school year started but safety remains our main priority. Please continue to monitor www.tamug.edu and Sea Aggie Alert for the latest updates and information. If you have any questions, please contact us at infoline@tamug.edu.
Due to the outpouring of support from the Aggie community, Texas A&M University at Galveston has partnered with The Texas A&M Foundation to channel donations to help our students, staff and faculty who have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey.
Anyone who would like to donate can give online to the TAMUG Hurricane Relief Fund. Your gifts will help support immediate needs, such as housing, food, clothing, transportation, and other services. One hundred percent of donations to the TAMUG Hurricane Relief Fund will be used to help our Aggie community.
Thank you for showing the strength and resilience of the Aggie Spirit, especially in times of disaster.
If you discover any damage in our work space that you believe is storm related, do not enter your own work order into Maintenance Connect. In order to track expenses properly for possible FEMA reimbursement, email Carmel Julian and copy Belinda Webber. They will respond as quickly as possible. Your subject line needs to be DISASTER RECOVERY.
FEMA is offering assistance with housing, employment, finances, food, housing, legal aid and medical expenses. Please visit www.disasterassistance.gov or call 1.800.FEMA (3362) for more information. Please have the following available:
When you register with FEMA, you will be given a FEMA registration number. Write down your number and save it. You will need this number whenever you contact FEMA.
We know there are a lot of questions regarding driving routes. Unfortunately, there are too many variables for all of our students scattered throughout the region. Please use www.drivetexas.org and do not travel until your particular path is clear and safe!
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Code Maroon Galveston is the Galveston-campus-specific instance of the Texas A&M System Code Maroon emergency notification system — TAMUG operates parallel alert infrastructure from the College Station flagship
Noon Friday deadline, about 30 hours before Harvey's first landfall (Rockport, Texas as Category 4 at 10:00 PM CDT Friday August 25), reflects tight Galveston evacuation timeline
Friday August 25 was originally fall 2017 residence-hall check-in day; the cancellation of check-in is a distinctive feature of this evacuation
Supervisor rule-0 audit (2026-07-18): demoted from isVerbatimConfirmed:true -- the text describes Harvey as already past and confirms the Sept 4 reopening (with a stray embedded 'Friday, September 1' fragment), making it a later multi-topic hub-page compilation from the tamug.edu index page rather than a single dated message that could have been sent as the Aug 24 initial evacuation order.