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Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. From 2018 until 2021, she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. In December 2021, Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president; she succeeded Eric J. Barron following his ...
Neeli Bendapudi is the president of Penn State since 2022. She has a background in marketing and service research, and served as president of the University of Louisville and provost of the University of Kansas.
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Neeli Bendapudi began her tenure as the nineteenth president of Penn State on May 9, 2022. With a nearly thirty-year career as a leader in higher education and business, Bendapudi is a dedicated educator, academic, and executive.
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- Louisville: A University in Crisis
- The Banker, The Academic, The Chief of Staff
- Louisville: The ‘Premier’ Anti-Racist University
- ‘Bendapudi Is The University’
- Away to Happy Valley
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In the mid-2010s, scandals plagued the University of Louisville. The school’s president, James Ramsey, hosted a 2015 Halloween party at the university mansion where guests and the president wore racist costumes. Then the NCAA sanctioned the men’s basketball team for providing sex workers for recruits. Ramsey was also accused of mismanaging funds fo...
Raised in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, and the oldest of three girls, a young Bendapudi often heard that sons were traditionally preferable to daughters. Again and again, people would tell her family, “Don’t be sad you only have daughters, who knows what you did in your previous life.” Bendapudi recalled those comments decades later in a 2021...
The police killing of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home in March 2020 galvanized residents across the city to take to the streets demanding changes to policing. Among the hundreds of protestors chanting “No justice, no peace” as they moved through downtown Louisville was Smith. “Solidarity means taking an action,” he wrote on social media. “… S...
While Bendapudi appeared to be navigating her position’s precarity to the praise of campus and community members, her leadership was challenged in several ongoing lawsuits claiming her choices were, at certain points, retaliation. One lawsuit, filed in 2019, claims Bendapudi was “aware of the retaliatory and unconstitutional actions” reportedly tak...
When Burse — the Louisville trustee who helped oversee Bendapudi’s hiring — stepped off a plane in late 2021 and reconnected his phone he got “the shock of my life.” Bendapudi was leaving Kentucky. Just a few months earlier, Burse worked on the committee that offered Bendapudi a five-year contract extension. The school was on a good trajectory, he ...
How did Bendapudi, a former banker and a woman of color, navigate the crises and challenges at the University of Louisville before joining Penn State? Read this profile of her high-wire act and the questions it raised.
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In a historic appointment, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi begins her tenure today, May 9, as the 19th leader of Pennsylvania’s 167-year-old land-grant university.
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9 dic 2021 · Neeli Bendapudi was named the 19th president of Penn State on Dec. 9, 2021, by the University's Board of Trustees. She is currently president of the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
9 dic 2021 · Bendapudi, currently the 18th president of the University of Louisville, is a recognized leader in higher education who specializes in marketing and consumer behavior.
