A Ball State University provost and vice president for executive affairs will head to Aurora this summer to lead Aurora University.
Susana Rivera-Mills has been selected as the university's next president. She is the first Latina to lead the university since it was founded in 1893.
Rivera-Mills, 52, will begin her presidency on June 1. She was selected following a six-month national search that included a committee made up of trustees, alumni, faculty, staff and students. A native of El Salvador, Rivera-Mills came to the United States at age 12 after her family fled a civil war. Like other immigrant children, Rivera-Mills became the family's"linguistics broker" after she quickly learned the English language.
During her five years as provost at Ball State University, Rivera-Mills supported first-generation college students, played a key role in developing and implementing the university's strategic plan and helped lead academic departments through a new incentive-based budget model.
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