Dr. Melissa Gilliam will lead Boston University as school's first Black and first female president

The university's board of trustees announced Gilliam, 58, will begin steering the university as its 11th president next July. Previously, the career educator had spent the past two years working as the executive vice president and provost at Ohio State.

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