Northwestern University announced Thursday that Michael Schill, the current president of the University of Oregon, will take office as Northwestern’s 17th president this fall.
Michael Schill, president-elect of Northwestern University. Credit: Shane Collins
Michael Schill, president-elect of Northwestern University. “I am excited, honored and humbled to join Northwestern, one of the world’s foremost universities,” Schill said in an article published by Northwestern Now. “Northwestern has a long tradition of educating the brightest minds and pushing the boundaries of research and innovation.”
Before becoming UO president in 2015, Schill previously served as dean of the law schools at the University of Chicago and UCLA, and as chaired professor at NYU and the University of Pennsylvania.
Her selection comes exactly one month after the previous president-elect, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, announced that he would resign after being diagnosed with “an aggressive form of cancer”. Outgoing president Morton Schapiro agreed to serve as interim president while the school’s Board of Trustees conducts a new search.
“I am very pleased that Michael Schill has been elected as Northwestern’s next president,” Board of Trustees Chairman J. Landis Martin told Northwestern Now. “As a proven leader and accomplished scholar, he has demonstrated the skills to collaboratively develop a strategic vision to advance Northwestern’s positive impact on the world.”
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