Star Tribune – Until the phone rang on Feb. 8, Devinder Malhotra had all but forgotten about “Plan B.”
A couple of weeks earlier, he had agreed — at least in theory — to come out of retirement if something went awry with the search for a new chancellor at the Minnesota State college and university system, where he had worked for seven years.
But Malhotra, 69, never expected it to happen. And after four decades in academia, he was enjoying retirement too much to think about it.
Then came the phone call: The board of trustees had abruptly decided that none of the three finalists was a good match. Would he take the job for a year?
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