Details here. He has been a good and honorable President, and served the University well. My God, though, it's a hard job, and I can imagine after the length of his tenure, he's exhausted! I'm sure I speak for most faculty in expressing sincere appreciation and thanks for his service on behalf of our collective enterprise.
Meanwhile, here in the Law School we're worried that our own spectacular Dean, Bill Powers, is a candidate whom many will be looking to as a successor. The University's gain would be the Law School's loss. But Bill Powers is without a doubt the most talented academic administrator I've ever seen: excellent political instincts, shrewd psychological judgment, strong academic and intellectual values, and an outstanding ability to traverse the worlds of "theory" and "practice." If anyone can take UT Austin to the next level (namely, across-the-boards competitiveness with places like Michigan and Berkeley), it will be him. We shall see...
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