One of higher education’s most influential organizations has tapped veteran public university president Mary Sue Coleman as its next leader, Inside Higher Ed reported. Coleman will begin leading the Association of American Universities — a group of 60 U.S. and two Canadian selective public and private research universities — in June 2016. She was previously president of the University of Michigan for 12 years, retiring in 2014, and president of the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2002. Coleman will replace Hunter R. Rawlings III, who has led the AAU since 2011 and preceded Coleman as president at UI. While president at Michigan, Coleman served as chair of the AAU for the 2011 academic year. Coleman co-chairs the Lincoln Project, an initiative of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences to support public research universities, and serves on the board of trustees of the Society for Science & the Public.