The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has given Texas A&M University “preliminary authority” for “the proposed purchase of an existing private law school . . .,” according to a Sept. 13 letter that THECB assistant commissioner MacGregor Stephenson sent to Texas A&M provost Karan Watson.

But the proposed Texas A&M University School of Law at Texas Wesleyan University, which A&M and Texas Wesleyan School of Law announced would open in June 2013, does not yet have all the approvals from accrediting bodies that are needed to open.