Overview
- The planned transition will allow a new president to concentrate on operations and finance while Cost focuses on external engagement.
- A successor is expected to be announced soon, with Cost indicating the pick will likely be someone already at the university.
- Cost, an alumnus who has led JU since 2013, oversaw record U.S. News rankings, inclusion in Forbes’ Top 500 lists, major fundraising campaigns and campus growth including a downtown law school.
- In April the university cut 22 art, music and theater programs in a $10 million reorganization that eliminated about 40 faculty positions and affected roughly 100 students.
- Cost will be JU’s second chancellor, a role previously held by former president Frances Bartlett Kinne.