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Ken Ward
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March 29
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- Auburn University President Dr. Steven Leath announced drastic new plans to hire an additional 500 faculty members along with major campus housing expansions during his installation speech Thursday.
Leath, who is Auburn’s 19th president, focused much of his speech on his vision for making Auburn University into a “world-class academic, research, and service university.”
See the full speech, here.
The vision included helping to turn Auburn into, as Leath described, a “top-tier” research-heavy institution.
One way Leath plans to accomplish that goal is by hiring roughy 500 new tenure-track faculty members who would be scholarship and research focused.