Don Betz
Former Executive Director, International Programs and Global Initiatives
AASCU
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Don Betz is executive director of international programs and global initiatives at AASCU. He has about a 50-year distinguished career in higher education. Betz has led three institutions as president/chancellor: the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Oklahoma City; Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (capital of the Cherokee Nation); and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He was provost/VPAA at UCO and at Palmer College in Davenport, Iowa.