TribLive: Sharp Defends the Margins Tax
At this morning's TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp defended his efforts to implement the so-called margins tax in 2006.
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At this morning's TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp defended the state law allowing college-bound children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.
View ArticleTribLive: Sharp on A&M and the SEC
At this morning's TribLive conversation, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp talked about the school's recent decision to bolt the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.
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A Texas Sensibility That Doesn't Travel Well
Rick Perry’s tuition troubles have a lot to do with the difference between politics in Texas and politics everywhere else.His support for in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants — and...
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The Business of Being a University Chancellor
You’re a university regent. An empty front office means you and your fellow board members need a new chancellor, someone to run the business side so your president, an academician who has written 137...
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A&M Chancellor Sharp Making His Mark, Cutting His Pay
Eight weeks after he was put in charge of the Texas A&M University System, Chancellor John Sharp is shuffling the top staff, hiring management consultants to streamline the administration and...
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At A&M System, Sharp Investing in Faculty Recruiting
In an approach he plans to spread across all 11 schools in Texas A&M University System, Chancellor John Sharp is committing $5 million to an initiative designed to boost faculty recruitment at the...
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Preparing to Outsource Services, A&M System Tells Employees Not to Worry
In an interview with The Texas Tribune on the day he was named chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, John Sharp said would-be higher education reformers had gone about things all wrong by...
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Texas A&M Looks for Savings, Finds a Fight
Sometimes, you go looking for a fight.John Sharp, the new Texas A&M University System chancellor, is out to privatize services at the main campus in College Station, and he’s getting the kind of...
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A&M, Texas Wesleyan to Create New Law School
According to Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, a law school is "one of the few things that have been missing from A&M for a very long time."That era is coming to a close.The...
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A&M's Outsourcing Plans Have Workers Concerned
When the Texas A&M University System announced that its flagship would gain $260 million in new revenue and savings in the next 10 years by outsourcing its building maintenance, landscaping and...
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For South Texas, No Easy Road to Medical School
Part two of a two-part series on the race to expand medical education in Texas. When Travis County voters approved a ballot measure this month that paved the way for a new University of Texas medical...
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Feds Approve New Vaccine Facility in Bryan-College Station
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved a $91 million influenza-vaccine manufacturing facility to be based in the Bryan-College Station area and run by the Texas A&M University...
View ArticleTribLive: Cigarroa and Sharp on Higher Ed Funding
At this morning's TribLive conversation, University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp talked about the per-student decline in state...
View ArticleTribLive: A Conversation With Cigarroa and Sharp
Full video of my 3/28 TribLive conversation with University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp.
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TribLive: A Conversation with Cigarroa and Sharp
Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of The University of Texas System, and John Sharp, chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, join Evan Smith, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Texas Tribune, in a...
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A&M President: Desire to Teach Fueled Decision to Step Down
When Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin was a teenager, he had an epiphany that pointed him to becoming a college professor. In six months, he will get the chance to return to that...
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Texas A&M Will Open "Peace" Campus in Israel
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.On Wednesday in Jerusalem, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp are...
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The Evening Brief: Dec. 12, 2013
New in The Texas Tribune• UT President Powers Keeps Job, Encouraged to Improve: "University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will keep his job for the foreseeable future, following a...
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The Evening Brief: Dec. 13, 2013
New in The Texas Tribune• Stockman, Cornyn Race May Be Tea Party Test: "Now we may have a nice, clean test case for the 'big or merely loud' conversation about the insurgents in the Texas Republican...
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