West Virginia U. Hires Towson U. Provost as President
James P. Clements is West Virginia University’s next president, university officials said today. Mr. Clements has been provost of Towson University since 2007. He will take over from C. Peter Magrath, West Virginia’s interim president, on June 30.
A politically charged scandal shook the university through much of last year, resulting in the ouster of several top administrators. Tensions have eased under Mr. Magrath’s tenure, although some challenges linger.
Mr. Clements, 44, an expert in management and information technology, has been a faculty member at Towson for 20 years. He holds a Ph.D. in operations analysis from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. His annual salary at West Virginia has been set at 0,000.
The search committee that selected Mr. Clements was led by Gene A. Budig, the former chancellor of the University of Kansas and official with Major League Baseball. —Paul Fain
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