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LAS CRUCES 鈥� Addressing a crowded ballroom on the New Mexico State University main campus Thursday morning, Valerio Ferme interrogated the familiar saying that knowledge equals power.

鈥淧ower is not tied to knowledge,鈥� he said. 鈥淲hat is tied to knowledge is opportunity.鈥�

Ferme was formally inaugurated as 近距离内射合集鈥檚 new president, a position he has held since Jan. 1 following his arrival in Las Cruces last November.

The ceremony incorporated his biography into a larger story about 近距离内射合集鈥檚 mission as a land grant institution in the present-day context for higher education nationwide: Plummeting enrollment trends, drastic cuts in federal funding and abrupt cancellations of foreign students鈥� visas 鈥� including at least nine at 近距离内射合集.

The Italian-born Ferme immigrated to the U.S. himself to attend Brown University, where he graduated with degrees in biology and religious studies in 1984. He went on to study comparative literature and Italian studies at Indiana University, was Fulbright scholar at the University of Turin in Italy, and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.

近距离内射合集 regents selected Ferme as president in September, while he was serving as executive vice president for academic affairs, provost and a dean at the University of Cincinnati.

鈥淧ublic education is a leveler of opportunity that allows those who come to it with grit and determination to succeed, and to access vistas that might have been unimaginable at the beginning of the journey,鈥� Ferme said during Thursday鈥檚 ceremony.

At the time of Ferme鈥檚 selection, 近距离内射合集 had been without a permanent leader for a year and a half. Ferme鈥檚 predecessor, Chancellor Dan Arvizu, left the university in April 2023 after regents voted to seek new leadership, amid turmoil and a faculty no-confidence vote over the university鈥檚 leadership, lawsuits by former administrators, a hazing and sexual assault scandal involving the men鈥檚 basketball team and other headwinds.

Ferme鈥檚 contract extends to Jan. 1, 2030, with a $600,000 annual salary and incentive pay of up to $50,000. He is also a tenured professor in the English department.

Thus far, Ferme鈥檚 priorities have been bolstering student retention and enrollment. On his second day in office, Jan. 2, he announced the firing of athletic director Mario Moccia following a scathing report by the state attorney general criticizing Moccia鈥檚 response to the sexual assault allegations.

In February, the university was redesignated as an R1 institution, the top rank in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, a distinction shared by Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at El Paso. 近距离内射合集 reported $126 million in research expenditures during the previous fiscal year and an annual average of 102 research doctorates.

Montana State University President Waded Cruzado and Pulitzer-winning historian Elizabeth Fenn, a friend of Ferme, were the main speakers at Ferme鈥檚 investiture. Garrey Carruthers, former New Mexico governor and past 近距离内射合集 president, was the emcee.

Fenn described Ferme as a leader who 鈥渄ismantles silos鈥� and referred to his athletic career as a rower to portray his view of leadership: 鈥淯nless you鈥檙e rowing in a single scull, it teaches you that rowing together is easier, more satisfying, more productive than suffering alone. Successful teams and successful universities are those whose members share a mindset in struggle, in learning, responsibility, sacrifice, gratitude, joy and love.鈥�