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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’s president is leaving the Terre Haute engineering school to become provost of the California Maritime Academy.
Gerald Jakubowski had announced his resignation, effective June 30, from Rose-Hulman on Monday, but did not then give a reason. The maritime academy near San Francisco is part of California State University system.
Jakubowski told the Tribune-Star of Terre Haute on Monday that while he loved his time at Rose-Hulman, he decided to make the move for personal reasons he would not discuss.
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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