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The University of Miami on Friday named its seventh president, according to The Miami Hurricane.
Joe Echevarria, 78, is currently serving as acting president and will officially keep that role after a unanimous vote by the board of trustees.
Echevarria is the first CEO and first UM alumni to hold the position, as well as the second Hispanic to become the university’s president.
He became interim president after Julio Frenk’s abrupt appointment to serve as chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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