Texas A&M U. Picks New President Over Faculty Objections

Texas A&M University’s governing board has picked Elsa A. Murano as sole finalist to head the university’s flagship campus, in College Station, despite objections from angry faculty members who say they were not included in the selection process, Katherine Mangan reports on The Chronicle’s Web site.

“Under state law, faculty and staff members, students, and alumni will have 21 days to comment on the selection before the regents’ final vote,” Mangan writes. If approved, Murano, who is vice chancellor of agriculture in the A&M system and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will become the university’s first female, and first Hispanic, president, Mangan notes. Read more.