President's Quick Departure Raises Concerns at Texas A&M Flagship

Elsa A. Murano, the embattled president of Texas A&M University at College Station, resigned last week, after less than two years in office. Within a day, the leader of the system's Galveston branch was named to temporarily replace her.

In choosing R. Bowen Loftin as interim president of the flagship campus, the university's Board of Regents avoided the fireworks that might have ensued if it had chosen someone who had been involved in the recent power struggle between Ms.

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