Indian American Menu Khator to head university of Houston

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First Indian American to head prestigious university

November 22, 2007

Indian-American Menu Khator has become the first person of Indian origin to be appointed as the head of the prestigious University of Houston (UH), which has more than 56,000 students on its rolls.

Khator, who was the sole finalist for the position, was unanimously appointed to be the next UH president during a special board meeting yesterday, the governing board for the University has confirmed. Khator, 52, is expected to assume the chancellor role by January.

"We have found an incredible person to lead this University and this system into 21^st century," said Welcome W Wilson Sr, Chairman of UH Board Of Regents.

Khator, provost of University of South Florida (USF), will replace Jay Gogue, who left in March to become the president of Auburn University, his alma mater.

Born and raised in India in a small town of Uttar Pradesh to a family of lawyers, Khator came to the US as a teenager, the wife of a graduate student she met 10 days before their arranged marriage. She later followed him to USF, accepted a temporary faculty position there and began to climb the administrative ladder.

Khator's early interests were in education, but she could only finish her bachelors in India. She cried and went on a hunger strike after learning of her arranged marriage to a stranger, believing her dream of a master's degree had ended.

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