MOON, Pa. (AP) — Robert Morris University is getting a new president from Virginia.
Trustees have announced Christopher Howard will become the eighth president of the western Pennsylvania school on Feb. 1.
The 46-year-old has served as president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia since 2009.
Howard will move from a small, single-sex liberal arts college with an enrollment of about 1,000 to Robert Morris and its roughly 5,350 students.
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The Plano, Texas, native attended the Air Force Academy as an undergraduate. He earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a doctorate in politics from Oxford University in England while on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Howard was awarded a Bronze Star for military service in Afghanistan.