Ricardo Azziz is a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a research professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York; the director of the Center for Higher Education Mergers & Acquisitions (CHEMA) at the Foundation for Research and Education Excellence; and principal at SPH Consulting Group. He led the merger that created Georgia Regents (now Augusta) University, serving as its founding president.
Published Works
Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed
Mergers, Closures, and Other Major Institutional Restructuring
Ricardo Azziz, Lloyd A. Jacobs, Bonita C. Jacobs, and Richard Katzman
Publication Date: October 28, 2025