University of Pennsylvania has named a new president to replace its longest-tenured president, Amy Gutmann.
M. Elizabeth Magill, a lawyer and administrative and constitutional law academic, will succeed Gutmann in leading one of region and country’s most influential universities on July 1, the school announced Thursday. She’s slated to be voted in by the board of trustees in March. Magill currently serves as the EVP and provost of the University of Virginia, a role she’s held since 2019. Prior to her tenure at UVA, Magill served for seven years as the dean of the Stanford Law School.
“The Penn presidency is one of the most complicated and demanding in higher education, and there are very few people anywhere in the world with the skills that this job demands,” Scott Bok, chair of the Penn Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “But through a thorough search process informed by input from all university constituencies, we found exactly the right person.”
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