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Fla. administrator named chancellor of UMass Dartmouth

By Mary Carmichael

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 20, 2012

The University of Massachusetts chose an outreach expert and vice president at Florida International University Thursday to lead its Dartmouth campus as chancellor, ending a year-long process that saw it replace three of its six leaders, including the system president. At FIU, a public research university in Miami, Grossman, 55, oversees “engagement’’ - a field that involves forging partnerships with outside groups. Much of her work in that position has entailed making connections with local high schools and building up a collaborative biomedical science research cluster.

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