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Trustees on Tuesday named Winona State University President Scott Olson the next chancellor of the Minnesota State college and university system.
Olson, 64, has led Winona State – one of seven universities in the state system – since 2012.
He started out as a communications professor and later became dean of the communications school at Ball State University.
He was provost and vice president for academic and student affairs for nine years at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and spent a year at the Minnesota State system office in St. Paul as interim vice chancellor for academic and student affairs before taking the top job at Winona State.
Olson was one of two finalists for the job, along with Tonja Johnson, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Alabama System.
He’ll take over in July for the retiring Devinder Malhotra. Malhotra leaves at a time when college enrollment continues to fall but – unlike at the University of Minnesota – relations with state lawmakers are strong.
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