Houston businessman Charles Miller announced today that he has submitted his resignation as chairman of The University of Texas System Board of Regents to Governor Perry.
Miller has served five years of a six-year appointment and will continue to serve as chairman until the regents elect a replacement to fill his unexpired term. Then Governor George W. Bush appointed Miller to the board in February 1999, and he was elected chairman in February 2001. Miller was re-elected chairman in 2003, and his term as a regent would have ended in February 2005.
In his announcement, Miller stated that he wanted to resign at this time so that the board had plenty of time to choose his successor ahead of the 2005 session of the Texas Legislature.
The UT System has 15 campuses, including nine academic and six health institutions and an enrollment of approximately 180,000 students. The system’s current annual operating budget is $7.8 billion. UT System institutions in the Houston are include UT Health Science Center at Houston, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Medical Branch at Galveston.