USF campus appoints regional chancellor

SARASOTA — USF Sarasota-Manatee named academic and student affairs official Terry Osborn interim regional chancellor.

Osborn will replace retiring regional chancellor Arthur Guilford, according to a release. Osborn was named regional vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at USF Sarasota-Manatee in March. He holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut and has more than seven years of experience in senior higher education academic leadership.

“We are excited about welcoming back our faculty and students to the fall semester beginning Aug. 25 and are committed to providing all of our stakeholders with a seamless changeover to our new administration,” Osborn says in the release.

A national search is ongoing for a permanent replacement for Guilford.