Richard Linton is expected to be named the next president of Virginia Tech, multiple sources told The Manhattan Mercury Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Linton is currently the president at K-State, having served in that role since 2022. He\u2019s the 15th president in university history.<\/p>\n
He did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Neither Virginia Tech nor K-State have announced anything, but the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors has a special public meeting slated for Wednesday at noon central time in Blacksburg for a formal vote to appoint the new president. Meanwhile the Kansas Board of Regents has called a special closed-door meeting at 12:15 Wednesday on a \u201cnon-elected personnel\u201d matter. The Regents hire and fire university presidents.<\/p>\n
Linton has bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n
Linton succeeded Richard Myers as president of K-State. Myers was president from 2016 to 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Linton is expected to be named the next president of Virginia Tech, multiple sources told The Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[137192,39035,75,84,83,9,24,63,137191,42624],"class_list":["post-372618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-academic-institutions","tag-board-of-directors","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-university-governance","tag-virginia-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}