LOCAL : Buffalo Educator to Head USC
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Trustees of the University of Southern California today named Steven B. Sample, head of a New York state campus, as the university’s next president. Sample, an electrical engineer and inventor, has been president of the State University of New York campus at Buffalo since 1982.
Sample, 50, is expected to become USC’s 10th president March 31. His selection culminates an extremely secretive search for a successor to James H. Zumberge, who has been USC president since 1980. He announced last February that he wanted to retire.
USC officials said they were very impressed with Sample’s success in boosting the academic stature of SUNY Buffalo.
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