University at Albany's next president from Texas
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The University at Albany's next president will be Dr. Havidan Rodriguez of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
The State University of New York's board of trustees announced Wednesday that Rodriguez will start in Albany in September. Rodriguez, 58, is the founding provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at UTRGV.
University at Albany's former president, Robert Jones, left in September to become chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
James Stellar has been serving as interim president since then.