The Affiliation of Public and Land-grant Universities named Montana State College president Waded Cruzado as its subsequent president, in keeping with a Thursday information launch.
Cruzado, who has served as chair of APLU’s Board of Administrators since 2021, will formally step into the highest job at APLU on July 1. Cruzado has led Montana State College since 2010, and final August that she would retire in June 2025.
She replaces outgoing president Mark Becker, who has led APLU since 2022.
“All through my life, the historical past and the impression of land-grant universities and public greater training have supplied me, and numerous college students and households, with inspiration and a name to motion. I’ve seen firsthand the life-changing alternative our public universities present to their college students, their communities, the nation, and the world,” Cruzado stated within the information launch.
Cruzado, who was a first-generation faculty scholar, is a local of Puerto Rico.
Gary Might, chancellor of the College of California, Davis, who led the search committee that employed Cruzado, described her as “an distinctive chief who brings deep expertise in efficiently main a public and land-grant college to spectacular new heights.” Can also famous her familiarity with the group given her time as chair of APLU’s Board of Administrators.
(The headline was corrected to mirror that Cruzado is retiring earlier than going to APLU.)
