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Taylor Named President of Gannon University

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Keith Taylor, Ph.D., has been named the seventh president of Erie-based Gannon University, succeeding Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D. Taylor was chosen from more than 40 candidates after a national search to fill the position.

Taylor, who recently served as Gannon’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, will begin serving as president on July 1.

From 2000 to 2005, Taylor served as academic dean of Health and Human Services, and assistant to the vice president for academic affairs for instructional technology and liberal learning at Daemen College in Amherst, New York. In that position, Taylor secured more than $1 million in external funding for Daemen’s adoption of a learning management system and teleconference and Web-based learning facilities. He also led faculty development in the use of instructional technology for the college and partnered in a significant revision of Daemen’s liberal arts curriculum.

Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy, a master’s degree in exercise science and a doctoral degree in anatomy and cell biology, all from the State University of New York at Buffalo.