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April’s update on the Texas A&M president’s website includes the status of the searches for five leadership positions.
President Mark Welsh reported 120 applications for chief operating officer has been reduced to 17 candidates. Welsh expects finalists will be selected for campus visits in May.
According to A&M’s executive search website, next week there will be four finalists on campus seeking the dean’s position at the Bush School that became vacant when Welsh became president. One of the four finalists is from A&M. The others are from Southern Methodist, the department of defense, and The Baldwin School.
The executive search website also showed finalists were on campus last week for two other dean vacancies that will be known as colleges on August. There are three finalists for dean of what is still the architecture school. None of those finalists are from A&M. There are three finalists to lead performance, visualization and fine arts. One is from A&M.
And the president reported the application period has closed for A&M’s internal search for dean of the graduate and professional school.
Welsh also announced that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved requests to change eight schools to colleges. The official rebranding becomes effective August 15th for architecture, dentistry, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and performance, visualization and fine arts. A WTAW listener pointed out the name changes reverses decisions made by former president Katherine Banks. Click HERE to read and download president Katherine Banks decisions that were announced December 14, 2021, including name changes of academic units that are found on pages 9 and 10.
And Welsh provided updates on the work of two committees. Welsh reported members of A&M’s capacity study committee recently met with the cities of Bryan and College Station to discuss the off campus impact of the growing student body. And another committee is reviewing responses following on campus meetings and three thousand survey responses to what can be done to make the Aggie student experience number one in the nation.
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