TAMPA, Fla. — Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg will leave the presidency of the University of Tampa when the fall 2026 term ends, the private university said Friday, citing personal reasons for her departure.
Dahlberg gave the advance notice required under her employment contract. The school said no other leadership roles are changing and that its current senior executives will keep running day-to-day operations during the transition.
The hunt for her replacement has already started. The university has hired AGB, a search firm that works only on executive searches for colleges and universities, to help find a permanent president.
Trustees credited Dahlberg with shoring up the school’s strategic and financial footing and with bringing the campus community into planning for what comes next. In her own statement, Dahlberg called the job an honor, thanked administrators and staff for their work and said she looks forward to cheering on the university as it nears its 100th anniversary.
Her tenure will be a short one. Trustees picked Dahlberg in December 2023 as the 11th president in the school’s history, following longtime leader Ronald L. Vaughn, and she took office in June 2024.
She arrived from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where she was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and taught both computer science and engineering. Earlier in her career she taught or worked in administration at Syracuse University, Cooper Union in New York, UNC Charlotte and Winthrop University.
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