Framingham State settles on new president

PHOTO FROM KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY WEBSITE F. Javier Cevallos

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By Rick Saia

A former professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is being recommended as the next president of Framingham State University.

F. Javier Cevallos, currently the president at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, has won the unanimous recommendation of the school’s board of trustees. The appointment must be approved by the state Board of Higher Education when it meets later this month, according to a statement from Framingham State.

If approved, Cevallos would take over as president July 1, the FSU statement said.

Cevallos, president at Kutztown since 2002, began his career in education in 1981 as an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Maine at Orono. In 1984, he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to full professor in 1992. Two years later, he was asked to serve as faculty advisor to the provost. After a fellowship in Connecticut, Cevallos became chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Soon after, he was appointed vice chancellor for student affairs, a post he held until he moved on to Kutztown University.

“In many ways, this is like coming home for me,” Cevallos said in the statement. “I have spent so many years of my life in Massachusetts and still have many connections to the area.”