{"id":13465,"date":"2016-03-14T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T23:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2016-03-14T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T23:10:43","slug":"welcome-back-james-hallmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13465","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back, James Hallmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If I were a betting man — and I’m not; heck, I don’t even play the lottery<\/em> — I would wager\u00a0that\u00a0Texas A&M University System has just installed the next president of its campus in Canyon.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it goes.<\/p>\n

The A&M University System Board of Regents has named James Hallmark as the interim president of West Texas A&M University, effective upon the upcoming retirement of Pat O’Brien.<\/p>\n

Interesting, yes? Sure it is.<\/p>\n

Why? Because Hallmark just recently — I think it was a year or two ago — moved from the Panhandle to take an administrative post at the A&M “mother ship” campus in College Station.<\/p>\n

Hallmark had served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at WT before he left for College Station to assume a vice chancellor post at A&M.<\/p>\n

Now he’s coming back to become the “interim” head man at WT.<\/p>\n

My strong hunch is that the regents might go through some kind of perfunctory search for a permanent president. It just looks for all the world, though, that they’ve found their man.<\/p>\n

Is it a good thing? That depends. I don’t know Hallmark well, but I do know of his reputation, which my understanding is that it’s quite stellar.<\/p>\n

My preference would be for regents to conduct a real national search to find a WT president and if Hallmark is one of the applicants and he competes with others, then he — and the school — are strengthened if he demonstrates an ability to lead the campus.<\/p>\n

Then the system regents can ratify their decision to send them back to WT to take the reins of a growing university.<\/p>\n

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If I were a betting man — and I’m not; heck, I don’t even play the lottery — I would wager\u00a0that\u00a0Texas A&M University System has just installed the next president of its campus in Canyon. Here’s how it goes. The A&M University System Board of Regents has named James Hallmark as the interim president of … Continue reading Welcome back, James Hallmark<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2381,6060,4579,5312],"class_list":["post-13465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-j-patrick-obrien","tag-james-hallmark","tag-texas-am-university","tag-wtamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}