Legislator, A&M chancellor spar over nixed campus merger talks
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp said Wednesday that the idea of merging system universities in Kingsville and Corpus Christi is no longer feasible, so he doesn't plan to ask the system's board of regents to vote on the idea in the coming weeks.
But that decision didn’t immediately defuse tension around the idea, as a spat between Sharp and a Kingsville legislator over the issue simultaneously spilled out into the public.
The legislator, Republican state Rep. J.M. Lozano, questioned to The Texas Tribune on Wednesday whether Sharp should be allowed to continue to keep his job given how he has handled the proposed merger, which has sparked outrage across the Coastal Bend community.
“This may be a manner that is going to become a personnel matter because it's a character issue now,” Lozano said.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/16/m-chancellor-merger-kingsville-and-corpus-christi-/
