He has a column dated October 11, 2001 and he was at Texas A&M then.
http://www.skiff.tcu.edu/fall_2001/101101/atm.html
My concern is that he DID graduate from Texas A&M with whatever degree is on his resume, but subsequently dropped out of the graduate School of Journalism? That program is no longer offered at Texas A&M, so I cannot find anything else.