CHENEY- Fresh from the Golden State, Shari McMahan is ready to settle in as the 27th president of Eastern Washington University.

McMahan served as Provost at California State University, San Bernardino the past six years. Before that, she was a faculty/administrative member at California State University, Fullerton.

McMahan finds an alignment between her values and the mission of Eastern as an inclusive, diverse university.

"There's a lot of parallels with what I had been doing the last six years-and in my 20-plus years before that," she said. "I started out as a faculty member and then pro...