The Texas A & M University System issued the following announcement.
COMMITTEE NAMED FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH AT TEXAS A&M
A 17-member committee has been created to conduct a national search to find a successor to Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young, Chancellor John Sharp announced Thursday.
Young notified the campus community on Wednesday that he would retire as president, effective May 31, 2021, to return to teaching and lead the new Institute for Religious Liberties and International Affairs within the Bush School of Government and Public Service.
“Selecting a university president for this great institution, particularly in these challenging times, is of paramount importance,” said Chancellor Sharp. “I want to thank this committee for volunteering their time to this critical task. We want a president with superb academic credentials who recognizes and will maintain the special culture and traditions that make Aggies unique in the world.”
The search advisory committee is charged with delivering a minimum of three candidates to Chancellor Sharp who will refer one of them to the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The committee includes two Texas A&M System regents: Chairman Elaine Mendoza and Vice Chairman Tim Leach.
The other voting members are:
Susan Ballabina
Deputy Vice Chancellor
Chief Operating Officer for the Vice Chancellor of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Kristina Ballard
Staff Council Chairperson
Communications Specialist III, TAMU Engineering
Kathleen Gibson
Chair of Trustees
Texas A&M Foundation
Greg Hartman
Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Texas A&M Health
Yava Jones-Hall
Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology
Director of the Core Histology Laboratory
John Junkins
Distinguished Professor and Royce E. Wisenbaker Chair of Aerospace Engineering
Regents Professor; Director, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study
Jack Lafield
Board of Trustees
12th Man Foundation
Arvind Mahajan
Associate Dean, Mays Business School; Regents Professor; Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence;
Piper Professor; Lamar Savings Professor of Finance
Cathy Mann
Chair, Board of Directors
The Association of Former Students
Eric Mendoza
TAMU Student Body President
Mays Business School
Roderic Pettigrew
Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health
Executive Dean for Engineering Medicine
Joe Ramirez
Brigadier General, (Ret.)
Commandant, Corps of Cadets
John Stallone
Professor, Vascular Physiology and Pharmacology
Faculty Senate Speaker
Jorge Vanegas
Dean, College of Architecture
Professor of Architecture
Karen Wooley
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry; W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions
James Hallmark, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, will be the committee staff person and an ex-officio member.
About The Texas A&M University System
The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $6.3 billion. The System is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies, including the Texas Division of Emergency Management; and the RELLIS Campus. The Texas A&M System educates more than 151,000 students and makes more than 22 million additional educational contacts through service and outreach programs each year. System-wide, research and development expenditures exceeded $1 billion in FY 2019 and helped drive the state’s economy.
Contact: Laylan Copelin
Vice Chancellor of Marketing and Communications
(979) 458-6425
(512) 289-2782 cell
lcopelin@tamus.edu
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