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Jamie Comstock to Serve Two-Month Term as Interim President of Butler University

Jamie Comstock, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Butler University in Indianapolis, will serve a two-month term as interim president of the university. Current president Bobby Fong is stepping down on May 31 and will become president of Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. James M. Danko will become Butler’s 21st president on Aug. 1. Currently he is The Helen and William O’Toole Dean of Villanova School of Business.

Dr. Comstock has been provost at Butler since 2008. Previously she vice president for academic affairs and professor of communications at Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois.

Dr. Comstock earned bachelor’s and master’s degree from Illinois State University. She received her doctorate at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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