Ann Weaver Hart, who had previously announced that she was stepping down as president of Temple University in Philadelphia at the end of the year, was named as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Arizona. She has served a Temple’s first woman president for the past six years.
Dr. Hart holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Utah. She previously served as president of the University of New Hampshire, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Claremont Graduate University, and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Utah.