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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 02:26 AM Sep 2015

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp signs new five-year contract

COLLEGE STATION -- The Texas A&M University System and Chancellor John Sharp finalized a new employment contract Saturday that will give him an almost $400,000 annual pay raise, according to officials.

While the full details of the contract were not immediately available Saturday, Sharp will receive a $900,000 annual base salary for the next five years. Board of Regents member Phil Adams served as board vice chair in 2011 when Sharp first took the reins of the system and said the pay raise from $507,300 was long overdue.

"I've been here a long time and John Sharp has been outstanding," Adams said. "If there's a better chancellor in the country, I don't know who he or she is."

Regents authorized board Chairman Cliff Thomas to negotiate an employment agreement with Sharp during a regular meeting in September.

Read more: http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/texas-a-m-university-system-chancellor-john-sharp-signs-new/article_f3d24da9-0cc5-5d98-bfde-b26e8abcb175.html

[font color=330099]As far as I'm concerned he might as well have been a Republican. He was the comptroller that began the push to privatize state services and also made cutbacks in other state agencies while he was in office. The fact that he has landed a cushy job when so many others lost their jobs because his nonsense makes me want to .[/font]

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Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp signs new five-year contract (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2015 OP
I smell Rick Perry in all this. (nt) Paladin Sep 2015 #1
The Perry-Sharp Connection: DhhD Sep 2015 #2
If there are buttloads of money turning up at A&M, I figure Perry's involved. Paladin Sep 2015 #3

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
2. The Perry-Sharp Connection:
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 05:32 PM
Sep 2015
http://www.reporternews.com/opinion/the-rick-perry-john-sharp-connection

snip
Sharp was elected sophomore class president, and student body president their senior year. Perry was elected yell leader as a junior and senior.
more at link

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
3. If there are buttloads of money turning up at A&M, I figure Perry's involved.
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 05:49 PM
Sep 2015

I still think he'll end up with a high position at the school, awash in cash.

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