<p>The state Board of Regents named Senior Vice Chancellor Dan Papp as president of Kennesaw State University on Thursday.</p><p>Papp, 58, succeeds Betty Siegel who has been president of Kennesaw State since 1981. He is expected to begin the job in mid-May.</p><p>He was a finalist to fill the job of chancellor of the state's university system to replace former Chancellor Tom Meredith. That position was filled in December by Erroll B. Davis Jr., the former chairman of a multibillion-dollar utility.</p><p>Papp was interim president of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta for a year while the regents sought a permanent replacement there.</p><p>As senior vice chancellor for academics and fiscal affairs, he has played a major role in developing and the strategic plan for the state's 35-campus university system.</p><p>With 18,500 students, Kennesaw State is Georgia's third-largest public university, behind the flagship University of Georgia in Athens and Georgia State University in Atlanta.</p>
