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May 12, 2008

Update: Higher ed chief Warner does not get Pa. job

PROVIDENCE -- Jack R. Warner, Rhode Island's higher education commissioner, will not become chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, which announced today it's chosen a Florida university president for the post.

John C. Cavanaugh, president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, will succeed Judy G. Hample as chancellor of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities, a Pennsylvania higher education statement says today.

Warner was one of three original finalists for the Pennsylvania job. The list winnowed to Warner and Cavanaugh after Richard Wells, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh chancellor, withdrew from consideration on May 2, according to The Patriot News in Harrisburg .

Warner became Rhode Island's commissioner in 2002 after more than 30 years' teaching and administration work with the Massachusetts public college system. He earns about $135,000 a year. He advises the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education and runs the Office of Higher Education, which manages and supports Rhode Island’s three public colleges: the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island.

“I’m very pleased that the agenda we’ve had in Rhode Island was enough to help make me an attractive candidate to such a large and complex system as Pennsylvania’s,” Warner said today. “I have been happy in Rhode Island and am certainly committed to continue to do the work I have been doing here.”

Warner, who was recruited to apply for the Pennsylvania position, said he is not looking for another job.

Pennsylvania's current system chancellor is paid about $325,000 a year and is leaving to become the University of Mary Washington president in Virginia.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Jennifer D. Jordan and Journal archival reports

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