Harlan Sands

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CSU announced Tuesday that Sands would be leaving his leadership position at the university effective immediately. Provost Laura Bloomberg is replacing him.

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Laura Bloomberg, CSU’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, will take over as president immediately, though Sands will stay with the university into June to assist with the transition.

Cleveland State University (CSU) will offer approximately 1,300 classes to students this fall, with more than 50 percent of them being taught in-person at the Downtown campus. Classes taught on campus will be limited to 30 students and some will be moved to bigger areas to accommodate social distancing. Remaining classes will be taught online. CSU President Harlan Sands called it an “aggressive” re-opening plan.

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Cleveland State University has found its new president in Harlan Sands, who's spent two decades in the world of higher education. Sands spent that time at…