Ut President Jay Hartzell Biography 2025. We congratulate ut austin president jay hartzell on being named the new president of southern methodist university, ut system board chairman kevin eltife and chancellor j.b. Jay hartzell, the man who held the key to texas’s bid to the sec, announced on tuesday in an email to students his decision to resign at the end of the semester to join the texas nil powerhouse, southern methodist.

He previously served as the 12th dean of the mccombs school of business and has been a member of the ut austin faculty since 2001. “i am very grateful to chairman kevin eltife and the ut system board.