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Terri Goss Kinzy previously served as vice president for research and innovation at Western Michigan University. Her first day on the job at ISU was Thursday.
Illinois State University's first woman president started the job Thursday.
Terri Goss Kinzy is ISU's 20th president. Goss Kinzy, a scientist and researcher who most recently was an administrator at Western Michigan, says she wanted the job at ISU because it is a hidden gem of higher education that she wants to make better known.
Goss Kinzy was chosen in May to succeed Larry Dietz, who retired after six years as ISU president and a half-century in higher education.