The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors on Wednesday named Kansas State University President Richard Linton as the school's 17th president.
Linton will succeed Tim Sands, who will continue to serve as Virginia Tech's president until Linton assumes office at the beginning of the 2027 spring semester in January.
Linton, who received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Virginia Tech, leaves K-State after leading the school since February 2022.
"Virginia Tech is poised to make a generational leap as a public research university, and Richard Linton is the right leader to guide us forward,” said . . .
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