JUST IN -- “The recent challenges regarding Dr. McElroy have made it clear to me that I must retire immediately,” Banks wrote in her resignation letter. “The negative press is a distraction from the wonderful work being done here.”
Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks at the Zachry Engineering Education Complex in College Station on March 30, 2021, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Mark A. Welsh III, dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service, will serve as acting president. Banks’ resignation is effective immediately. The decision comes after the university’s faculty senate passed a resolution Wednesday to create a fact-finding committee into the mishandling of the hiring of McElroy. During that meeting, Banks told faculty members that she did not approve changes to an offer letter that led a prospective journalism professor to walk away from negotiations amid conservative backlash to her hiring.
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