An official said Thursday that eight candidates remain in the running for Texas A&M’s presidency.
They include both men and women, but an exact breakdown wasn’t immediately available, said Richard Box, chair of the 16-person search committee looking for the leader.
Box said there also are two “alternates” and that, though the soft deadline has passed last month, he hasn’t “completely closed the door” to exceptional candidates who haven’t yet applied.
The committee met on campus Friday for about two hours and whittled the pool of about 50 applicants down to the current handful, Box said.
“It was a process of elimination,” said Box, an Austin dentist who once served as treasurer to the governor’s campaign fund, Texans for Rick Perry. “The members of the committee had a very active and deliberate manner in which they went about it.”
The candidates come from academia, government, the military and business, Box said. He declined to elaborate further.
When asked if the general public would recognize the names, Box said, “If you read the papers, and you catch up with current events, I think you’ll recognize them.”
The search for Texas A&M’s president began in July, the month after President Elsa Murano resigned amid a clash with Chancellor Mike McKinney, the head of the A&M System, and the Board of Regents.
The committee — which includes students, former students, regents, administrators and faculty — is expected to send three or four names to regents in January. The board is expected to make a final decision in February.
Candidate names won’t be released until one or more finalists are named by regents so applicants’ current jobs aren’t affected, Box has said.
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