(AP)--The Kansas Board of Regents has chosen interim Kansas State University president Richard Myers as the next president.
 
The nine-member board made the decision Tuesday on the campus of the roughly 24,000-student university's main campus in Manhattan.
 
Former president Kirk Schulz announced in March he was leaving the university after seven years at the helm to become Washington State University's president.
 
Myers had been Schulz's interim successor. Myers is a retired four-star Air force general and the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman.