{"id":36762,"date":"2020-12-17T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/?page_id=36762"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:22:42","slug":"jacob-a-becker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/biographies\/jacob-a-becker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob A. Becker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jacob A. Becker is a member of the Student Affairs section in the Office of General Counsel. His practice involves advising universities and agencies on issues such as campus safety, the Clery Act, Title VI, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act\/Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the First Amendment, policy development, student conduct, behavioral intervention teams, animals on campus, student success initiatives, student recruitment, student organizations, the Texas Public Information Act, and the Texas Anti-DEI Law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jacob joined the Office of General Counsel in December 2020.\u00a0 Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel, Jacob maintained a civil and commercial defense practice with a national law firm in Dallas, Texas. He served as Higher Education Law Fellow and Assistant Counsel at Southern Methodist University from 2016-2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>\nJ.D., Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, 2016<br \/>\nB.A., University of Texas at Arlington, 2013<br \/>\nThe Archer Center, Fellow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Affiliations<br \/>\n<\/strong>State Bar of Texas<br \/>\nBrazos County Bar Association<br \/>\nTexas Bar College<br \/>\nNational Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)<br \/>\nNational Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admissions<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited States Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob A. Becker is a member of the Student Affairs section in the Office of General Counsel. His practice involves advising universities and agencies on issues such as campus safety, the Clery Act, Title VI, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act\/Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the First Amendment, policy development, student conduct, behavioral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":14214,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36762","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"grogers","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/author\/grogers\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36762\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}