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Margaret Spellings elected president of University of North Carolina system

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has been elected president of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system. Spellings is currently president of...

Mary Sue Coleman named the next president of Association of American Universities

Mary Sue Coleman, a former president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa, has been named the next president of the...

Brian W. Casey named president of Colgate University

Brian W. Casey, president of DePauw University in Indiana, will become the 17th president of Colgate University in New York. Casey has led “DePauw 2020,”...

James R. Johnsen named president of the University of Alaska System

Effective Sept. 1, James R. Johnsen becomes the 14th president of the University of Alaska System. Formerly UA’s vice president of administration and chief of...

Michael H. Schill takes the helm at the University of Oregon

Michael H. Schill took the helm at the University of Oregon on July 1 as its 18th president. He is the former dean and...

Gregory L. Fenves becomes president of The University of Texas at Austin

In June Gregory L. Fenves assumed the role of president of The University of Texas at Austin. He had been provost and executive vice...

University of Miami names Julio Frenk its next president

The University of Miami has named Julio Frenk its next president. Currently dean of faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,...

Andrew Hamilton named president of New York University

Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford in England since 2009, has been named 16th president of New York University. Prior to Oxford,...

Valerie Smith named president of Swarthmore College

Valerie Smith, current dean of the college at Princeton University, has been named the 15th president of Swarthmore College (Pa.). Smith has been the senior...

Hank M. Bounds picked to lead University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska has selected Hank M. Bounds, Mississippi’s commissioner of higher education, as the system’s seventh president. He’ll replace interim President James Linder. During...