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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday named Christopher Maynard the sole finalist to become the next president of Texas A&M International University, following the unexpected death of the school’s former president last year.

Pablo Arenaz, who had led the 10,000-student campus in Laredo since 2016, died in early October. In November, regents appointed Juan J. Castillo, the university’s longtime finance chief, as interim president while they conducted a national search for Arenaz’s successor.

Maynard currently serves as provost at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Before that, he was associate vice provost at Sam Houston State Univers

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