WEST LAFAYETTE — The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) on Friday (Dec. 6) named Purdue University's Tim Sands as its next president. The appointment takes effect June 1.
Sands, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, will remain at Purdue through the spring semester. At Virginia Tech, he will succeed Charles W. Steger, who has been president since 2000. Virginia Tech is Virginia's largest research university and its senior land-grant institution with an enrollment of 31,000 students and an annual operating budget of $1.2 billion.
