Starr, who is not related to the university’s president and chancellor, declined to disclose the terms of the settlement offer but said it followed the framework of the earlier talks this summer. The offer had been approved by the BAA’s board of directors and would have gone to the full organization had the regents approved it.

“It addressed four areas that we thought were important to allow us to move forward,” Starr said. “This has to do with trying to maintain some kind of discourse here (with the university).”

Starr said the regents previously aired frustration about the speed of the BAA’s approval process, which involves both the directors and the full membership before a measure can go into effect, in accordance with the group’s bylaws.

2013 agreement

In 2013, a team of leaders from Baylor’s board of regents and the BAA’s former executive committee hashed out a transition agreement that would have dissolved the BAA and transferred much of its alumni outreach activities to Baylor. The agreement would have allowed for the creation of a separate organization to continue publishing the group’s “The Baylor Line” alumni magazine as well as an alumni advisory committee that would report to the board of regents.