Beck Taylor took over as president of Whitworth University during a recession. He’ll leave during a global pandemic.
Suffice to say, the 11 years Taylor has led the Spokane-based private Christian university haven’t been the easiest for higher education, said Taylor, who noted other cultural and social issues with which students and educators have grappled along the way.
Taylor, 51, will bring that experience with him as the newest president of Samford University, a private Christian university in Birmingham, Alabama. His presidency will start July 1.
Whitworth announced Taylor’s departure last week, on the same day Samford’s Board of Trustees elected him as the university’s 19th president.
With his
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