Nancy L. Zimpher is the twenty-fifth president of the University of Cincinnati and its first woman president. She previously served as the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. A teacher and educator, she also served as Dean of the College of Education and executive dean of the Professional Colleges at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She serves as chair of the Urban Serving Universities, a coalition of public research universities serving inner cities. She currently serves on the boards of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Council on Education. She has been appointed by Ohio’s governor to the newly formed Partnership for Continued Learning, a state initiative focusing on Ohio’s education pipeline from early education, through postsecondary education and to the workforce, and also co-chairs the Ohio Articulation and Transfer Advisory Council. She is the recipient of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Chief Executive Leadership Award.