UT Chancellor McRaven’s priorities: Houston, diversity, brain health
University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven outlined a sweeping strategic plan Thursday that calls for establishing a campus in Houston as well as a national security initiative to address cyber, biological and other threats.
McRaven’s five-year plan also calls for boosting literacy rates among elementary school students, the leadership skills of students graduating from the system’s schools and brain health for residents of Texas and beyond.
The chancellor’s speech at a Board of Regents meeting was long on vision and short on such details as cost. He said he would seek the board’s approval and funding for the various initiatives in the coming months and years as the proposals are fleshed out. The UT System’s multibillion-dollar endowment is the likely source of much of the money.
McRaven made it clear that a top priority of his administration is stepped-up collaboration among the system’s 14 campuses, an operational philosophy that he learned from 37 years in the military. The retired four-star admiral and Navy SEAL, who coordinated the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed, told the Board of Regents that it was “a bold gamble” on the board’s part to hire “this old sailor,” but one that he was confident would pay off.
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