Georgia Southern University President Brooks Keel has been selected as the new leader of Georgia Regents University in Augusta.
Keel was unanimously elected by the state’s Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia during a called meeting Wednesday. The Regents do not typically meet during June and July.
Keel takes over the research institution on July 20. Georgia Southern’s provost, Jean Bartels, will be acting president at the Statesboro university until Keel’s replacement is selected.
The Regents launched a national search in February to replace outgoing president Ricardo Azziz, who stepped down from GRU on June 30.
Both Azziz and Keel had led their respective institutions since 2010.
“I had the great fortune to earn both my undergraduate and graduate degrees in Augusta, and I’m eternally grateful for the fantastic opportunities in research, scholarship (and) leadership they have brought to my life,” Keel said Wednesday. “I am honored and humbled to return to Augusta and rejoin Georgia Regents University at this exciting time.”
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