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"I am honored and delighted to accept the job as Northwestern's next president," incoming president Rebecca M. Blank said.

Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin’s flagship campus, has been named the next president of Northwestern University. She will become Northwestern’s 17th president, effective in the summer of 2022.

Northwestern's Board of Trustees on Monday announced Rebecca Blank, 66, will become Northwestern’s 17th president beginning next summer.

Rebecca Blank will be Northwestern’s 17th president, the University announced Monday.  Blank, currently the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will replace University President Morton Schapiro, whose tenure will conclude in August 2022. Blank’s appointment as NU’s first woman president will be a return to the University, where she became the first tenured woman in...

Graduate students expressed opinions and outlooks on the search for University President Morton Schapiro’s successor at a Tuesday listening forum. The event was held as a Zoom webinar where registered participants could occasionally present questions and concerns to a panel of representatives from the Presidential Search Committee and occasionally receive responses. Ph.D. student Ally Reith...