Miami Herald: Nova Southeastern University to get new president
Dec 11, 2009
The Miami Herald published this article on December 11, 2009
By LUISA YANEZ
Nova Southeastern University in Davie will get a new president next year in a succession plan approved by the board of trustees last week.
Effective Jan. 1, George Hanbury II, currently executive vice president and chief operating officer, will become university president, keeping his COO title.
Current president and CEO Ray Ferrero will become university chancellor. The 75-year-old Ferrero, who has been president since 1998, had urged the trustees to adopt a succession plan as he approached his 13th year on the job. In 2011, he will also give up his CEO title.
“The implementation of a succession plan assures that the strategic plan, adopted by the board of trustees, will continue to be implemented, its vision articulated, and its dreams, goals and objectives brought to fruition,” Alan B. Levan, chair of the trustee’s presidential succession committee, said in a prepared statement.
Hanbury, 66, has held the position of executive vice president and COO for the past 12 years. Previously, he spent 30 years serving as a city manager, most of it in Fort Lauderdale.
Ferrero’s involvement with NSU began in 1984 as a member of the board of trustees. He served as chairman from 1988 until 1995. He then held the post of vice chairman before becoming president.
Under Ferrero, NSU has grown into the sixth largest independent, not-for-profit university in the nation and the largest in the southeast. Enrollment has increased 68 percent, from 16,921 in 1998 to 28,378 in 2008, the university said.