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Who is Steven Currall?
Dr. Steven Currall was selected as the next system president at a BOT meeting Friday. By Jesse Stokes E D I T O R
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The USF Board of Trustees (BOT) unanimously selected Dr. Steven Currall to serve as the seventh system president after days of in-person interviews and a months-long search. Currall, 60, will take office July 1, after current President Judy Genshaft retires following a 19-year tenure. But who is our next system president? Currall’s most recent position was as the provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Southern Methodist University. His experience in higher education, however, has a global reach. He also had leadership roles at the University of California-Davis, the University College of London, the London Business School and others. However, Currall does not come alone. His wife, Dr. Cheyenne Currall,
is an established professional in her own right. She currently serves as the vice president and executive advisor for Global Advancement at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “My wife and I are excited to be moving to Tampa later this summer and we are eager to roll up our sleeves and get to work on further advancing the extraordinary success of USF,” Currall said. Currall noted that while he was waiting for the call to hear whether or not he received the position, he was relatively calm and is “looking forward to taking a little bit of a breather.” But, after he received the news that he was the candidate selected, he felt “elation, joy and excitement” about a starting the next chapter in his life. When discussing some of the main points USF deals with as an institution on a day-to-day basis, Currall joked with the BOT members interviewing him Friday,
Dr. Steven Currall will officially take office on July 1. ORACLE PHOTO/ LEDA ALVIM
while also giving them a glimpse into his childhood.
“My mother was a highereducation administrator at a
medical school in Missouri, so I grew up around medical schools,” Currall said. “My father was a social worker, so I actually, as a small child, was running around a mental hospital. I am not going to take that any farther.” He went on to address the importance that medicine plays at USF, as well as some other interesting majors like cybersecurity. “I am very comfortable in an academic biomedical setting and I really believe in the mission of academic biomedicine that marries research innovation and discovery with clinical delivery,” Currall said. “That is such an exciting aspect of USF.” Currall did not study either during his schooling though. He first earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Baylor University in 1982. Then, in 1985 he earned his master’s in social
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Major changes ahead for MSC dining options A full-service Chick-fil-A and a new sushi option will replace Beefs, Panera will replace Einstein’s and a remodel of the food court will take place.
By Jesse Stokes E D I T O R
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It has been roughly six years since the dining options in the Marshall Student Center (MSC)
food court have been changed or updated, according to the building’s Food Service Director Sean Hamad. With current plans in the works, a large-scale rebranding will be taking place beginning at the end of
the spring semester and will be fully operational by the fall. Perhaps the largest change has to do with Chick-fil-A. Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to “eat mor chicken,”
as the dining option will be moving out of the food court and into the current Beef O’ Brady’s space as a full-service location According to Jessica Cicalese, the marketing director for Aramark,
which oversees USF dining, this means that options like milkshakes and salads will be available for purchase at the location.
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