The Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents voted unanimously to name Mr. Geoffrey S. Mearns NKU's fifth president, effective August 1. Mearns will succeed Dr. James C. Votruba, who will retire July 31 after 15 years as NKU president.
"After a long and comprehensive national search, we feel we have found the best person in the nation to lead NKU," said Terry Mann, chair of the NKU Board of Regents. "The quality of our candidate pool and our finalists was indicative of this university's role on the national stage. Over the past 15 years, NKU has become the model of a major metropolitan university committed to academic excellence and regional stewardship. Still, our brightest days lie ahead of us, and Geoffrey Mearns is just the person to lead us there."
Mearns has served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Cleveland State University since February 2010, and was dean and professor of law at Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for four and a half years prior to that.
"I am excited by the opportunities that lie before us," Mearns said. "Northern Kentucky University is valued internally and externally as an outstanding academic institution that is an integral part of its community. There is a great deal of pride from the faculty, staff, students, alumni and the region about how far the university has come and where it is going."
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