Texas A&M system chancellor John Sharp announces a 17 member search committee to select the next president at Texas A&M.
This comes the day after Michael Young announced his retirement effective May 31, 2021.
The committee is charged with naming at least three candidates to the chancellor. Sharp will refer one of the finalists to the board of regents.
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News release from A&M system chancellor John Sharp includes members of the A&M presidential search committee:
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 President, 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 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.