Ohio State University’s new president has started his first day on the job. A seven-month search ended in January when University of California-Irvine chancellor Michael Drake was chosen as Ohio State’s 15th president. The 63-year-old Drake is the university’s first black president. He arrived Monday to applause from university employees and promised to […]
The Ohio State University Board of Trustees appointed Michael V. Drake as the university’s 15th president on Thursday. Drake has been the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine since 2005, is a medical doctor and a member of both the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “He is exactly […]
