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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowRose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute will soon be searching for its third new president in five years. The engineering and science school announced yesterday that Gerald Jakubowski was resigning effective June 30, three years after he took the job.
No reason for his departure was announced, and the school said its board of trustees would later determine the process for picking a new president.
In a telephone interview with the Tribune Star of Terre Haute late yesterday, Jakubowski said he had a new opportunity, but he wouldn’t be able to comment on it for about a week.
Jakubowski told the newspaper he didn’t want his departure seen in a negative light. He said the school was “in great shape.”
Jakubowski was a top administrator at Arizona State University when Rose-Hulman hired him as the school’s 13th president in 2006. He replaced John Midgley, who resigned in 2005 after less than a year on the job following vocal campus complaints about his management style.
The turnover in the president’s office follows Samuel Hulbert’s 28-year run of leading the 1,900-student private university, which is regarded as one of the top engineering schools in the nation.
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