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Rift Brews Between Texas A&M Chancellor, President

AUSTIN, Texas

Texas A&M President Elsa Murano’s job could be on the line in the coming week when the A&M System’s Board of Regents meets.

The university system’s governing board, according to an agenda item for a meeting scheduled for Monday in College Station, will discuss “Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Reassignment, Duties, Discipline or Dismissal of Executive Level Officers and/or Employees of The Texas A&M University System.”

The meeting comes less than two weeks after release of a highly critical performance review of Murano, who received low marks for leadership and management, including the lowest marks possible for decisiveness and for not being a team player in her first full year on the job.

The five-page review of the first female and first Hispanic president in the school’s 132-year history was done by Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney. He has told The Eagle of Bryan-College Station he’s considering consolidating his post with Murano’s as a cost-cutting measure.

Murano, in a 10-page typed response, described the review as “ludicrous,” “besmirches my character” and is “not based on facts.”

System spokesman Rod Davis has denied any merger plans are in the works.