The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted unanimously Sunday evening to make acting President Mark A. Welsh III the interim-president of its flagship university,
Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp attends the special meeting of the Board of Regents on Sunday, July 30, 2023 at the Texas A&M campus in College Station., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Banks, who had served as president for two years, resigned amid fallout from the bungled hiring of Kathleen McElroy, a Black journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to revive A&M’s journalism program., dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service, as acting president until regents could pick an interim. The board plans to conduct a national search for a new president.
The board also authorized the university lawyers to negotiate a potential settlement with McElroy over the failed hiring and directed the system office of the general counsel to conduct a “complete and thorough investigation” into what happened, pledging to release the results of the investigation to the public.Regents met for more than three hours in executive session, which is closed to the public, before voting without public discussion of either agenda item. Regent Mike Hernandez was absent.
But in the weeks after the signing ceremony, administrators started to renegotiate amid conservative backlash to her hiring. University officials presented her with multiple new offers that provided less job security. In early July, McElroy was offered a one-year contract teaching position and a three-year appointment as the director of the journalism program, though it noted that she could be fired at any time, she said.
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