Two of the longest-tenured members of the Texas A&M University athletics department lost their jobs Thursday in a budget-cutting move that eliminated 17 positions from the department.Billy Pickard and Jim Kotch have a combined 73 years of service in ... full story
Seventeen people in the Texas A&M athletics department will take early retirement or were laid off in what the university is calling a “reduction in force.”The employees were informed Thursday morning and some of them met with human services repr ... full story
E-mails flooded Stephen McDaniel's inbox on Tuesday after news spread that Jeffrey Conant, a Texas A&M University department head and marketing professor, had died.Conant died early Tuesday at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan after cont ... full story
Angel has four favorite sayings: "Hello," "I love you," "I'm Angel" and "What you doing?" The white-crested cockatoo recently sat on top of a wooden bird block fluffing her soft feathers inside the Schubot Exotic Birth and Health Center at Texas A&am ... full story
An estimated 83 percent of faculty have "no confidence" in Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney's leadership, according to results of a survey released Monday that received more than 1,300 responses. Even more faculty members -- 9 ... full story
Over the past few weeks, former Texas A&M President Ray Bowen said, he's been asked a question by countless colleagues across the country: "What on Earth is going on at A&M?"Jeff Pilchiek, a guidance counselor at Westlake High School in Austin, said ... full story
A Texas A&M group that represents 2,500 researchers decidedly passed a resolution of "no confidence" in Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney on Friday.The 27-to-2 vote by the Council of Principal Investigators came the week be ... full story
Citing concerns about shared governance, improper influence and "irresponsible behavior," a pair of Texas A&M University groups have drafted resolutions of "no confidence" in A&M System Chancellor Mike McKinney. Members of the Council of Prin ... full story
About $800,000 will be sliced out of the Texas A&M University president's office budget, Interim President R. Bowen Loftin announced Wednesday. "I will never ask of you what I won't ask from me," Loftin told a few hundred members of the campus co ... full story
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin's plan to slash administrative costs by $20 million includes scaling back the university's merit increase program. The Texas A&M System Board of Regents embarked last week on a broad but unclear pla ... full story
Texas A&M University's incoming vice president for research says his plans to begin in the role July 1 have not changed.With embattled President Elsa Murano's resignation and as-yet-unclear cost-cutting plans in the works to share services betwee ... full story
The chairman of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents defended the system's move to cut costs in a newspaper column last week.But it was one paragraph -- an aside about the 2007 search process that led to the hiring of former Texas A&a ... full story
Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney will address the Faculty Senate at 3:15 p.m. Monday in Room 601 of Rudder Tower. He will be joined by interim Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin. The senate will convene for a s ... full story
His bosses made the goal clear: Save money.In his first media interview since beginning work as Texas A&M University's interim president, R. Bowen Loftin said Wednesday that his first order of business would be to assess the university's finances ... full story
R. Bowen Loftin began work as interim Texas A&M University president on Tuesday, meeting with top-level administration officials and others the day after Elsa Murano officially resigned as president. On Monday, Texas A&M University System reg ... full story
After serving on six search committees at Texas A&M University for high-level posts, Jerry Cox thought he knew what to expect. But the 2007 search for Texas A&M University's president that ended with the selection of Elsa Murano, the alumnus ... full story
A presidency born from controversy will end in controversy Monday as Elsa Murano -- the first woman and first Hispanic to lead Texas A&M University -- officially resigns.But the fate of top-level administration remained unclear late Sunday, as regen ... full story
Rick Curry said news of Texas A&M University President Elsa Murano's resignation on Sunday hit hard.Others said they didn't agree with the way Murano ran things as president, but that they thought she was treated unfairly.Many students and faculty me ... full story
Most sitting college presidents within the Texas A&M University System opted not to comment when asked recently about the idea of merging the positions of the system chancellor with the presidency of the flagship university. But several of their ... full story
Elsa Murano on Sunday announced her resignation as president of Texas A&M University, saying her term will end Monday.Her resignation came a day before the Texas A&M System Board of Regents planned to meet in a special closed session to discu ... full story
Elsa Murano, Texas A&M University’s first Hispanic and first female president, will resign Monday. The details of the resignation were unclear. Murano’s lawyer said she will not comment today. And he said he was uncertain whether Murano wou ... full story
The Texas A&M Singing Cadets perform the national anthem at Fenway Park in Boston on Thursday night before the Red Sox-Yankees game. The group visited Kennebunkport, Maine, on Saturday to sing at former President George H.W. Bush's 85th birthday ... full story
Two Hispanic groups have sided with Texas A&M President Elsa Murano in a rift between her and Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney.The A&M System's Board of Regents will meet at 9 a.m. Monday to discuss personnel matters r ... full story
The employment status of Elsa Murano -- Texas A&M University's first Hispanic and first female president -- could be decided Monday. Texas A&M University System regents have called a special meeting in which they will consider -- in closed se ... full story
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