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| July Wed, 2020

Tommy Thompson Begins Term As UW System President

Rutgers University assistant research professor Kristoffer Shields said it's not altogether uncommon for ex-governors to make the move to higher education. Shields is a historian at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor, and points to states like Michigan, California and Maine as having former governors leading state universities and university systems.

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