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Regents name interim president
Murano named President Emerita, will return to faculty after one-year leave
By: Meagan O'Toole-Pitts
Issue date: 6/16/09 Section: News
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The Board of Regents named Elsa Murano President Emerita upon her resignation Monday, and appointed Texas A&M University-Galveston Vice President and Chief Executive Officer R. Bowen Loftin interim president. Murano will rejoin the faculty in the College for Agriculture and Life Sciences after a one-year leave.
"Over the course of her distinguished career, Dr. Murano has served this University with distinction and has lived the Aggie core values of excellence, integrity, selfless service, leadership, loyalty and respect," said Board of Regents Chairman Morris E. Foster. "We look forward to her continued service to the University, its faculty and students."
The Board of Regents meeting was convened to address the fiscal hardship the University is facing, Foster said.
"Our country is in the midst of extraordinary economic turmoil," Foster said. "Of course, this Board's responsibility to be a good steward of taxpayer resources is not limited to tough economic times - it is and must be our ongoing mission."
The chancellor and president positions will likely not be combined, Foster said.
"The combination of these two positions would be difficult at the least and possibly detrimental to the system's institutions," Foster said. "It's not the direction that this Board, in my view, cares to pursue."
Though regents overturned the requirement for a search committee in the search for a University president in March, Foster said the board is still open to the use of a search committee. Foster said he was aware of the bill passed by the student senate imploring the use of a search committee.
"Dr. Loftin will lead the University ably until the Board completes its search for a new president," Foster said. "My goal is for this process to be completed within six months from today."
Shared governance, as mentioned in Vision 2020, is a necessity, Foster said, and input should be collected from all stakeholders.
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