The names of the Referees Council at Texas A & M Glenn Hegar as a leader coming to the university system

The Texas Glenn Higar observer will be the next adviser to the University of Texas A and M system, as he supervises 11 universities that educate more than 157,000 students and eight government agencies, including the Texas Emergency Management Department.

On Friday, the Referees Council chose Higar to succeed Chancellor John Sharp, who has held the job since 2011 and is scheduled to retire in June. The vote was unanimous.

Hegar inherits the regime’s colleagues at a turning point where Republican leaders examine what they see progressive policies and a curriculum in higher education. He will have to confront the ongoing accusations that public universities violate the state’s ban on diversified policies, shares and integration, and transfer intensive threats to academic freedom.

“The Board of Directors is confident that Galin Higar is ready to enter the next era of excellence in the University of Texas A and M.”. “Hegar realizes the unique breadth and the depth of the effect of the system on each corner of Texas through its eight government agencies and 11 universities. We, as members of the Referees Council, are keen to see what it will accomplish.”

In his own statement, Hayar thanked the rulers for their confidence.

He said: “Texas A & M will focus on our basic values, increase and improve students’ experiences, and expand economic opportunities and services through our system and our country,” disturbed! “

The selection of the board of directors for Har as the latest final final leads to a mandatory waiting period of 21 days before setting a deadline.

Higar, a Republican of Katie, was elected observer in 2014. He previously worked as a representative of the state and then Ksenator in the state, from 2003 to 2014.

The financial observer is the state’s financial manager, accountant, the amount of revenues and the secretary of the fund.

As an observer, Hegar drew attention to the problems that afflicted other states such as maintenance of infrastructure and pensions for employees in the country. He worked with the Legislative Commission in Texas to pay the debts of pensions. It also helped create the first deposit of precious minerals run by the state and to deposit Texas alloys.

The bold development office in Texas and settlement funds are located from a lawsuit resulting from the Obuni material crisis under the scope of the financial observer. If a school voucher proposal to allow families to use public funds for their children’s special study passes this session, the office may also be responsible for overseeing how the program works.

Hayar put forward some policy to preserve the role when he nominated for his re -election in 2022 as a “real conservative defending the values ​​of faith, family and freedom.” At that time, his office issued a list of financial companies that Higar said was hostile to oil and gas. He also threatened Harris Province to reduce her law enforcement.

In the legislative body, Hayar presided over the sunset consulting committee and said that he canceled the inefficiency in the government and canceled six government agencies, providing taxpayers for more than 160 million dollars.

During his last session in the Senate, he chaired the sub -committee for financing in local and local revenue matters and said that he helped reduce taxes of one billion dollars.

That year, he also sponsored a draft law in 2013 that set additional restrictions on abortion before the Roe V Supreme Court turned. Wade in 2022. (This law was the one that launched Wendy Davis in fame for 11 hours). It also authored a draft law that allowed students who have hidden pistol licenses to store firearms in their cars on the campus. Now, Texas does not have to obtain a hidden pistol license.

Higar is the same Agie, graduated from the University of Texas A & M in 1993. He later obtained a master’s degree and law from St. Mary University, a private school in Saint Antonio, and a master’s degree in laws from Arkasas University.

He has three children with his wife, Dara, who also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Texas A and M. She is a lawyer at the Lanier Law Office and was the head of the Texas University Student Association A &M in 2022.

The Board of Directors of the University of Texas A & M also considered other candidates for the consultant, according to a source familiar with the operation: President of the Texas A & M Tyson Voelkel; President of Alabama University Stewart Bell; The state, MP Trent Ashbi, R. Lukkin; The United States, MP Michael McCall, R Austin. The second source confirmed four of the five names. The rulers met all day on February 24 in Houston to meet the candidates, most of them behind closed doors.

“It was pleased with the members of the Board of Directors to see his search for the advisor for great attention and many qualified candidates. We thank everyone who participated in this intensive search and selection process.”

Hegar’s political path, Sharp’s, who also occupied an observer before becoming a 2011 consultant.

Sharp, who has gone democratically, also worked at tasks as a representative of the state, Senator Commissioner and Railway Commissioner. As a consultant, he began in the era of prosperity of the system while moving in the changing environment in higher education as universities became increasingly polarized.

He obtained his highest level ever at a billion dollars in a new financing for the regime during the same session. The legislators banned the diversity, shares, inclusiveness of offices, programs and training, and threatened to eliminate the period. Thanks to the suggestion that legislators are writing this practice instead. Tenure, which provides the employment of faculty and the protection of academic freedom, has been a fundamental role in the state’s rise in the ranks of the research.

Sharp Hegar congratulated on Friday and pointed to their similar career in public service, noting that they represented the same boycott in the Senate in Texas.

“He has become an observer of public accounts several years after the office occupied. Now, he is scheduled to assume his duties as a consultant to the University of Texas A &M system. It seems like a fate for me!” Sharp said.

Earlier this year, the governor of the state, Greg Abbott, said that the President of the University of Texas A & M, Mark Welsh III, must lose his job if he continues to allow faculty members to recruit doctoral students at a limited conference of participation for black people or of Spanish or original American origin. Wales was appointed as head of the name of his predecessor, Catherine Banks, resigned from the failed recruitment of Catholine McLrawi, a black press professor who was some rulers in the university system, feeling the liberal bias. The university was also fired at the time of the faculty and graduates after Texas Tribune informed that the professor was suspended after being accused of a political student who was linked to the criticism of the ruler Dan Patrick during a lecture.

Abbott, Patrick and other conservatives criticized the professors to push him “for waking up.” Several draft laws have raised this legislative session that would limit the inputs of faculty members in the curricula and employment, and to challenge long education practices.

“I hope that the best desertion is the best in this very important position,” said Danny Bratin, Secretary of the Texas A &M Antonio branch of the American University Professors Association. “I hope that he will remember that the working conditions of faculty members are the conditions for learning students, and I also hope that he will remember that academic freedom and joint governance focus on all its decisions because these are the principles that made the American system of higher education envy the world.”

Leonard Bright, Vice President of the AAUPA Texas University branch, said he was concerned about Hegar’s association with legislators who are believed to be trying to reshape higher education without fully understanding how he did. Bright said he hoped that Hayar will be open to learning and hearing the view of faculty members as Sharp did. I had no sharpness nor Higar backgrounds in the academic circles.

“We are in a difficult environment and now we will have someone who will have to learn on their feet,” said Bright, who studied at the university for 14 years. “I hope he can rise above his policy and protect us because this is what he will require.”

ABBOTT can appoint an observer to serve until the next general elections in 2026.

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Correction, 7 March 2025 at 12:42 pm : A previous version of this story mentioned incorrectly when Glenn Hagar, the Texas Observer, was elected. It was in 2014.