CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A former dean at UCLA is the new chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The UNC Board of Governors appointed Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. during its meeting on Friday. The 60-year-old Gilliam will be the school’s first black chancellor when he assumes his duties on Sept. 8.
He succeeds acting chancellor Dana Dunn, who has led the school since Linda Brady went on medical leave in March following heart surgery.
Gilliam was dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs for seven years.
A native of Bloomington, Minnesota, Gilliam earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Drake University, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. He taught at Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin before joining the UCLA faculty in 1986.
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