A&M Chancellor Mike McKinney Stepping Down
Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney is stepping down effective July 1, 2011. "The time has come for me to step aside," he explained this morning in a memo to System employees.
McKinney is a former chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry, former commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and a former state representative. Just prior to joining the A&M System in 2006, he was senior executive vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Senate Higher Education Committee Chairwoman Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, said she ...
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John Reiser via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pretty clear what happens next: Jeff Wentworth is offered the Chancellorship, but turns it down because he doesn't want to make his living on a heavily armed campus. Of course, the campus carry legislation is Wentworth's own special legislative baby, so he should have to spend his days among armed students.
Matthew Reavis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Heavily armed haha. Because, so many college students have CHLs.
Barbara Avila Marvin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The same man who said at the ground breaking for the Ag bldg. in 2008, "The A in Texas A&M is for agriculture, the world's oldest profession...or the second oldest profession." It was also reported that he threw away the letter from the American Association of Colleges warning about implementing the "solutions" touted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation...the TAMU student body voted against carrying weapons on campus.
Richard Salvucci via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nah. Jeff is an Aggie. He could sit there behind a big desk, cut academic budgets, and feel like a player. Don;t bet against it.
WUSRPH
The next chancellor will clearly have to be acceptable...if not handpicked...by Gov. Perry. I doubt Sen. Wentworth is that close or has done that much for Perry to make him the Governor's choice. I would supsect another high-level staff member will be the first choice, even if they lack the "academic credentials"....In any case, whoever gets it will be "a Perryman". (no pun intended)
Suzy Hagar via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Remember the Governor is an VIP Alum and he receives his sage advice from the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
martha loudder
Rick O'Donnell needs a job....
Dale Curry
Is it possible they will offer the job to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates? Gates was President of the Univeity until he had to go to Washington to clean up Rumsfeld and Dubya's screw-ups in Iraq. He has served our nation well!
Al Sarria via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Robert Gates?
?èydànùr ÀYd?ñ via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Türkce konusun :)
Jimmy Alan Hall via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ba, bye!
Healthy Texan
Wentworth would run the institution into the ground if he had to lobby the legislature where republicans control. While Wentworth has the R by his name his colleagues in the GOP have little to no respect for the guy so his connections would not pay like one would think.
God save Texas from Jeff "The Tool" Wentworth.
kevin mcnamara
There are a lot of nations that would like to raise their research abilities.
Texas has a gaping budget hole and a couple R-1 universities it doesn't seem to want anymore.
I think the solution is obvious.