Auburn Names News President

By The Associated Press

Published: Mon, March 19, 2007 - 7:03 am

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - University of Houston President Jay Gogue (Goozh') has been selected by a search committee to be the next president of Auburn University. Auburn officials made the announcement today. The 59-year-old Gogue attended Auburn, where he has two degrees in horticulture. He has been president at Houston since 2003 and is past president of New Mexico State University and provost of Utah State. Search committee chairman Charles McCrary said Gogue would be invited to visit Auburn's campuses in Auburn and Montgomery later this week. The full Auburn University Board of Trustees is expected to vote to name Gogue president Thursday afternoon. Gogue would replace Auburn president Ed Richardson, who took the job on an interim basis when William Walker resigned. That switch occurred about the same time the school's accrediting organization placed Auburn on probation, partly because of charges that the trustees had too much control over day-to-day operations at Auburn. Probation later was lifted, and Richardson later was given the title of president, with "interim" dropped.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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