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Chancellor hosts meeting Staff Reports |
 McKinney |
As part of Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney’s increased emphasis on transparency in A&M System operations, the annual Programmatic Budget Review Presentation was held on our campus rather than at the System Office, Monday, April 28.
The meeting was open to TAMUK students, faculty and staff and was held at the Rooms 221 A&B of Memorial Student Union Building at 12:30 p.m..
Outgoing TAMUK President Rumaldo Z. Juárez, Ph.D., and members of the TAMUK Administrative Team joined Chancellor McKinney and his staff for the review of the university’s success in Fiscal Year 12008 and to review plans for Fiscal Year 2009.
Among the highlights reviewed was the growth of the Texas A&M University-Kingsville System Center San Antonio which had its 1,000th graduate this past May. The TAMUK SASC started offering classes in 2000 on t he campus of Palo Alto Community College. Today it has its own campus in south San Antonio offer upper level division classes and some graduate degrees. The campus is slated to become the Texas A&M San Antonio campus once it. The Texas Legislature has authorized $40 million in tuition revenue bonds if the center can enroll 1,500 full-time students by 2010. Until then, it has been under the control of the Texas A&M University-Kingsville administration.
“For many years—long before being named chancellor in November 2006—I have respected the A&M System and what it stands for. As a family physician, academic and business administrator and former member of the Texas Legislature, I have seen firsthand how the A&M System adds value to the lives of Texans. This value is best illustrated through teaching, research and outreach performed by dedicated faculty and staff throughout the state,” McKinney notes on a column on
“For the students at our nine universities and health science center, this means interacting with top-notch professors and fellow students who reflect the intellectual and ethnic diversity of our great state, while building the skills that will lead to success both on and off the job,” he said.