Texas A&M President Michael K. Young to retire in May 2021

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

MICHAEL K. YOUNG
PRESIDENT

September 2, 2020

Dear Aggies,

As we continue to navigate the start of the academic year toward what I am hopeful will be a great semester followed by a beautiful springtime in Aggieland, I wanted to let you know that I have notified Chancellor Sharp that I plan to retire as president, effective May 31, 2021. Marti and I have been discussing this for more than a year. We concluded that, after almost a quarter century of serving in senior academic leadership roles and an increasing desire to turn back to topics that occupied much of my previous career, this would be our last year.

In the meantime, I will continue to focus on the priorities at hand, preserving our core educational missions and ensuring that we are well situated to continue our extraordinary progress as a world-class educational institution.

In this academic year we face unusual challenges. Yet we will continue to provide transformational learning opportunities for all our students, as well as produce remarkable discoveries that improve the lives of the people of Texas and our country.

My charge upon arrival in 2015 was to help create a trajectory that would give Texas A&M an international reputation while remembering our core mission as a land grant institution. I am pleased with the significant rise in rankings, the noteworthy expansion of research, our remarkable success in the ambitious $4 billion Lead by Example fundraising campaign, and most of all, the privilege of working every day with our exceptional students and our dauntless faculty and staff.

I remember meeting students on my first visit to Texas A&M before accepting the position. While the students were not aware of the nature of my visit, their core values of respect, leadership, excellence, loyalty, integrity and selfless service shined through. I knew what a wonderful opportunity it would be to serve them. I look forward to joining the faculty of the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the Texas A&M School of Law for that same reason.
Sincerely,
Michael K. Young

The dude came from

THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle)

Why people are surprised at the way his tenure turned out is, itself, surprising!

That POS is going to go scorched earth on the University now that he has announced that he is leaving.

Buh-bye loser

So you can't do that unless you are conservative, or at least not liberal? Only conservatives are fair? or Liberals are never fair?

olin if you remember i told ya a month ago about the meeting of the fat girls would be doing something about the direction of how this thing has been managed . hes not the last that will be moved out . theres two more and the nexts will be right after season.

I think President Young has accomplished many great things since he came to TAMU. I can't imagine the posts above with such vile comments. Too often, people only post negative things. I believe in posting positive and negative things as appropriate.

I will truly miss Michael Young's leadership in our University.

Mike Wilkinson '86

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Psst...he's interested in religious freedom not because of Washington but because of this:

" He served as president of the New York Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 to 1989."

He probably isn't who we think he is, but that's part of his legacy: he's a riddle.

Yahoo. Please move to the West Coast ASAP!

Sorry sir. Michael Young has made tamu a worse institution since arriving, not better.

He jumps to conclusions without all the pertinent facts and does not seem to care about or tradition or history.


And he still owes some texags sleuths $1200.00.

So long Mr. Young. You won't be missed as the leader of Texas A&M.

Adios mother ****er.

mikewilkinson said:

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I think President Young has accomplished many great things since he came to TAMU. I can't imagine the posts above with such vile comments. Too often, people only post negative things. I believe in posting positive and negative things as appropriate.

I will truly miss Michael Young's leadership in our University.

Mike Wilkinson '86

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Can you list what he has done?

Please replace him with an Ag....preferably someone with military background. With our amazing network there should be plenty of qualified candidates.

mikewilkinson said:

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I think President Young has accomplished many great things since he came to TAMU. I can't imagine the posts above with such vile comments. Too often, people only post negative things. I believe in posting positive and negative things as appropriate.

I will truly miss Michael Young's leadership in our University.

Mike Wilkinson '86

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First post in 12 years. That's the best you could do?!

Virtually every academic in the country would be "too liberal" for A&M.

And LOL at hiring someone with a "military background" to lead our university. I love me some Bob Gates, but he's the exception.

Uncle Jimbo said:

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Virtually every academic in the country would be "too liberal" for A&M.

And LOL at hiring someone with a "military background" to lead our university. I love me some Bob Gates, but he's the exception.

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So you LOL at my post and then give a perfect example that supports it.

Makes sense.

mikewilkinson said:

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I think President Young has accomplished many great things since he came to TAMU. I can't imagine the posts above with such vile comments. Too often, people only post negative things. I believe in posting positive and negative things as appropriate.

I will truly miss Michael Young's leadership in our University.

Mike Wilkinson '86

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Username checks out!

Thanks the lawd!!!!

Michael Young is what happens when you hire your President away from the University of Washington.

Sorry we can't get him off the payroll.

This is just a really cushy job offer to get him out.

KnittingNeedleRepairCo said:

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So you can't do that unless you are conservative, or at least not liberal? Only conservatives are fair? or Liberals are never fair?

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LOL you created this account just to reply to this...

Sigh. He still has the capacity to do great harm. I wish that they had dumped him now for cause. I was in school during the presidency of Earl Rudder. He made great changes to A & M but they were positive and made A&M a better place. This left wing's idea of making A & M match the population was flawed in its idea and the implementation was botched in its execution. Gates and Bowtie were better guardians of the institution that I love so well. May God guide us and protect us until this creep is gone.