NEW - Fla. man to become next Pa. state university chancellor

By MARTHA RAFFAELE
Associated Press

HARRISBURG May 12, 2008 09:05 am

— The president of a state university in Florida has been hired as the next chief executive of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities.
John Cavanaugh was selected today by the State System of Higher Education’s board of governors to become the third chancellor in the system’s 25-year history.
The system includes IUP.
Cavanaugh, 54, is president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, where his annual salary is $295,000. He has held that job since 2002.
Cavanaugh previously was a faculty member and administrator at Bowling Green State University, the Medical College of Ohio, the University of Delaware and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
He also was a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Cavanaugh will replace Chancellor Judy Hample, who will take a new job in July as president of the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Hample is paid $327,718 annually.
The system’s board had narrowed its search to three finalists, but University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh chancellor Richard Wells withdrew his name from consideration earlier this month.
Cavanaugh was chosen over Jack Warner, commissioner of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education.
The 14 state universities are Kutztown, Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, IUP, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester. They enroll more than 110,000 students.