Presidential Appointments

John C. Cavanaugh, president of the University of West Florida, has been appointed chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Sarah Hebel reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Cavanaugh will succeed Judy G. Hample — who is leaving to become the president of the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Va. — on July 1.
Susan W. Martin, provost and vice chancellor of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, is poised to become the first female president of Eastern Michigan University, The Ann Arbor News reports. The Board of Regents will vote on the resolution to appoint Martin at a special meeting on Wednesday.
Wayne State University has picked Jay Noren, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha, as its next president, the Detroit Free Press reports.
According to an article
in the Los Angeles Times, State Sen. Jack Scott, chairman of the Senate Education Committee and former president of Cypress College and Pasadena City College, will become the next chancellor of the California community-college system on January 1, 2009.