Michigan State University's next president is Samuel Stanley Jr., a medical doctor who is the current leader of Stony Brook University in New York.
The board hired Stanley, the first president from outside the university since 1985, at a special meeting Tuesday morning.
Stanley is first permanent president at MSU since Lou Anna Simon — who is currently facing criminal charges — stepped down in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal. Since then, two other interim presidents have served, including former Michigan Gov. John Engler, who was forced from office.
Stanley has been president at Stony Brook, a public university on Long Island and part of the State University of New York system, since 2009.