Military Hero McRaven Having Trouble as Texas Chancellor

Note: UH is mentioned in this article.

Link: Military Daily News

Excerpt:

McRaven’s troubles began when he sidestepped the governor and the Legislature to move forward with a bold plan to build a data center in Houston. To some, it seemed a natural fit for a large university system to have a presence in the nation’s fourth-largest city. But it was also seen as a territorial invasion launched without informing legislators and a threat to the University of Houston, which is striving to become a major research institution.

Tensions over the Houston move bubbled for more than a year, and lawmakers pounced during a January budget hearing when John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat, told McRaven in a testy exchange, “I don’t think you give a damn what the Legislature thinks.”

McRaven bristled at the comment, but he apologized for how he handled the project and killed it a month later.