KINGSVILLE (Sept. 2, 2025) — Over the last two and a half years, Yorktown native Harley Davis has spent his time serving his peers as the Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) Student Government Association president.
After continuing to answer the bell for the TAMUK student body, Davis will now be able to serve students from the entire Texas A&M System after being voted in as president of the 2025-26 Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council (CSAC) late last month.
Davis is the first TAMUK student in recent memory to serve in this role and said it was a culmination of a proactive effort of learning the needs of system students.
“I did the groundwork,” said Davis, who previously served on the CSAC as a TAMUK representative. “Over the summer, I had been at conferences, reaching out to different members and inquiring about issues they face on their campus. I asked them how serving on this council would impact their respective campuses and how I would be able to help them achieve these things or what resources would they need to be successful.
“I am happy to not only represent myself, but this institution, “I had a lot of excitement and a lot of emotions.”
Davis, who has also served as an SGA senator, and executive staff treasurer, will now lead the advisory council made up of himself, a vice president, a secretary/historian and two representatives from each A&M System institution, including the Texas A&M Health and Science Center in Galveston. TAMUK’s other representative on the council is SGA senator Juan Vela.
The CSAC serves as the official liaison between students and the Texas A&M System leadership with the primary objective of advocating for and communicating and consulting on behalf of system students.
“This is a big role where you have the opportunity to meet with some pretty important people across the whole system,” Davis said. “I'm also working with some people who are also pretty important at their own home campuses. So yeah, it's super exciting and I'm super excited to lead our university with pride and give it all I have for a whole year. Something that I learned in my first term as president is a year is a really short time to get things done, so that's something that I want to consider as CSAC president. If I don't get to pass things or create proposals for big projects, I want us to leave the organization better than I found it as well as lay the foundation for the next group of people.”
Still, Davis had a couple of projects in mind that involve a leadership exchange program and student care pantries.
The “Tex Leads” exchange program will pair system schools from different regions together to exchange student leaders, creating a way for students to see firsthand what works and what ails other system institutions.
Meanwhile, the need for a care pantry system is something Davis found as a common issue at other campuses.
“A lot of us are struggling across the system to keep the food pantries stocked with enough resources for their students,” Davis said. “Something that I want to do this year as CSAC president is write a proposal to the Chancellor's office and to the system office about finding ways to establish more funds to meet the needs necessary for student pantries on campuses. It’s about finding a balance between these projects and then, of course, graduation.”
As Davis nears the end of his undergraduate career this and his term as SGA president this semester, he will lean on all his experiences help him make a difference leading the CSAC.
He also wants to leave a legacy that tells his peers and those students who come after him that these opportunities are for everyone.
“I never thought that I would be able to be in this role. serving as SGA president and now CSAC president,” Davis added. “I just want to show students that it doesn't matter where you come from. You can literally be from anywhere in the world and these opportunities are here for you. It doesn't matter if you came from a 6A school or the biggest areas in Texas or a little bitty school from nowhere, you could definitely be something.”
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