With the Capitol looming large in the window of his corner office in downtown Austin, the new chancellor of the Texas State University System muses, "It's like Joan Rivers says: 'It's not who you know — it's whom.'" Fresh off of nearly two decades as the Republican state representative from Plano, Brian McCall has amassed a considerable Rolodex — and he plans to make full use of it, calling upon whomever it takes to raise the profile of a system that often finds itself in the shadow of its larger brethren.

McCall was first elected to the Legislature in ...

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