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“In the eight months that I have worked alongside him, Dr. Edington has demonstrated time and again that he is a visionary when it comes to higher education,” said 亚洲博彩网站 Board of Trustees Chair Christopher D. Bell, J.D. “And not just someone with big ideas – someone who knows how to make those ideas happen.”
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访问 our website for Dr. Edington’s 个人简介及战略规划, a livestream of today’s ceremony, and more information on the 就职典礼周.