First Organizational Meeting of Committee Seeks Widespread Input
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The 15-member search committee to select the next president of Texas A&M University announced at its initial meeting today that it has retained the consulting firm Academic Search, Inc. to assist the committee in finding and recruiting the best and most qualified presidential candidates. One of the firm’s senior consultants, Dr. Robert W. Lawless, a former president of the University of Tulsa, former president of Texas Tech University, and former CEO of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will be the principal consultant.
Academic Search, Inc. (www.academic-search.com/) has assisted The Texas A&M University System in previous searches, including those for new presidents of Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Tarleton State University, and Texas A&M University-Commerce. The Washington, D.C. firm was founded in 1976 and has completed 186 presidential searches since 2004.
The search committee, chaired by Regent Richard Box, also announced that its first priority will be to implement outreach efforts throughout the university and the Aggie community, to include town hall-style meetings, personal contacts and use of its Presidential Search Committee website (www.tamu.edu/president/search/) to facilitate input and nominations from stakeholders.
The website also will provide forms for input from students, former students, faculty, staff, and others, and will feature regular updates on the progress of the search. Further information, including the list of committee members and the charge of the search committee, also is available on the site.
Nominations for the Texas A&M presidential search committee can now be emailed directly to Lawless at rwl@academic-search.com. Nominations should contain full names and sufficient information for contact.
About the A&M System
The A&M System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation, with a budget of $3.2 billion. Through a statewide network of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a comprehensive health science center, the A&M System educates more than 109,000 students and makes more than 15 million additional educational contacts through service and outreach programs each year. Externally funded research expenditures exceed more than $676 million and help drive the state’s economy.
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