Horner knows quite a bit about the marketplace. She made the nontraditional leap from president of Cargill Meat Solutions in Kansas to president at Midland. She has helped rebuild the university through new academic programming, new construction and a robust boost in athletics—Midland has the biggest concentration of student-athletes among any institution in the state, including the University of Nebraska.

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