SEATTLE ― The University of Washington Board of Regents on Tuesday chose Ana Mari Cauce to be the school’s next president.
Cauce had been interim president since March after Michael Young announced he was leaving UW for Texas A&M University.
“This is really less about me but about us,” Cause told the regents. “You have confidence that we are moving in the right direction.”
She is the first woman to hold the permanent job at the Seattle university and was chosen after the university spent $100,000 to conduct a nationwide search that found about 30 candidates.
Cauce, 59, joined the UW faculty in 1986 as an assistant professor of psychology and rose to become the university’s provost and executive vice president before being named interim president.
Born in Cuba, she left the country with her family during the revolution when she was 3 years old. Her father had been minister of education in Cuba.
Cauce earned her doctorate in child clinical and community psychology from Yale University in 1984. She has held numerous leadership positions at the university in Seattle and has served as UW’s chief academic officer or provost for three years.
