John Sharp, Texas A&M’s longest serving chancellor who has transformed the university system and boosted the flagship’s academic and athletic brands over his 13 years at the helm, will retire in June 2025.
“It’s an understatement to say we have giant boots to fill,” Regents Chair Bill Mahomes said in a statement. “The A&M System has become a dynamo nationally since John Sharp became chancellor,” said Phil Adams, who served on the Board of Regents during the first 10 years of Sharp’s tenure, in a statement. “Every year he had a big idea, and it got done.”
That higher education governance has become increasingly political has flustered many university leaders who rose through the ranks of academia. But not Sharp, whose background as a politician makes him uniquely equipped to bend the Legislature to his will. Sharp attributes the steadfast support from state leaders in part to the fact that as the A&M System has grown in size and prestige, it has maintained the same culture as when he attended in the 1970s.
In recent years, Sharp has taken heat on campus for not doing more to defend the interests of diverse students and faculty that have found themselves in the Legislature’s political crosshairs.
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