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.
Always nice to hire on the basis of race and skin color, rather than merit. I’m sure the depositors at Silicon Valley Bank UK LTD were pleased to know that the head of Financial Risk Mgmt and Model Risk was a queer person of color from a ‘working class background’.
Does she have a name? What a condescending headline.