{"id":282825,"date":"2026-05-07T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282825\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:35:07","slug":"texas-am-has-a-new-leader-with-deep-texas-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282825\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M has a new leader with deep Texas roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Susan Ballabina has spent more than 30 years working within the Texas A&amp;M system, most recently as executive vice chancellor, overseeing system-wide operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/05\/06\/susan-ballabina-becomes-texas-ams-28th-president\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/05\/06\/susan-ballabina-becomes-texas-ams-28th-president\/\">Susan Ballabina becomes Texas A&amp;M\u2019s 28th president<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She has held numerous senior leadership roles such as chief of staff to the president and deputy vice chancellor of AgriLife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her resume is built entirely in Texas with a bachelor\u2019s from Tarleton State, a master\u2019s from Stephen F. Austin and a doctorate in public affairs from UT Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chancellor Glenn Hegar said Ballabina\u2019s familiarity with the institution is exactly what A&amp;M needs right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">\u201cLeading this university requires an understanding of that responsibility and a willingness to keep the focus on what matters most. Dr. Ballabina has shown throughout her career that she understands that, and that is a big part of why she is the right choice to lead Texas A&amp;M forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The appointment comes after eight months without a permanent president following the resignation of Mark Welsh last fall after controversy over a recorded classroom discussion on gender identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ballabina will now lead a university of more than 72,000 students while navigating the political landscape for higher education in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ballabina will assume her new role on May 11 as she steers Texas A&amp;M through its 150th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Susan Ballabina has spent more than 30 years working within the Texas A&amp;M&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-282825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}