TEXAS A&M CHANCELLOR JOHN SHARP TO RETIRE IN 2025

  

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp has announced his plans to retire.

In a letter and a video message from the Chancellor released today (Monday), Sharp said his retirement will be effective on June 30, 2025. 

Sharp first became Chancellor in September 2011 and is the university system’s longest-serving official in that role.  He said his time leading the university has been “one of the great privileges of my life, a challenge, and an honor.”

Sharp said that while he may be retiring from this position, he will never retire from work completely and will “never be too busy or too old to help Texas A&M and the A&M system.”

Sharp is a 1972 graduate of Texas A&M University and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science.  He was a member of the Corps staff of the Corps of Cadets and was elected student body president.  He went on to serve in the Texas House of Representatives, Texas Senate, Texas Railroad Commission and as Texas Comptroller. 

Among Sharp’s accomplishments as Chancellor include increasing the A&M System’s student enrollment to one of the largest in the nation, overseeing $11.4 billion in over 300 building and facility improvement projects across the system, and supporting key research initiatives.  Sharp said he is most proud that “our culture, our traditions, and the patriotic fervor of our students remain intact.”

Sharp is scheduled to speak in Brenham on September 10^th as part of The Barnhill Center’s Speaker Series. 

The Board of Regents will conduct a national search in the coming months to name the next chancellor.  Board of Regents Chairman Bill Mahomes said, “It’s an understatement to say we have giant boots to fill,” adding that Sharp has “made the System smarter, more innovative, and more responsive to the needs of Texans in every corner of the state.”