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"This tenet will continue to guide Scissum Gunn as she takes the helm as Cal State University Long Beach’s new provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs on July 1.

Her leadership principles are rooted in what she learned from her father, Haywood Scissum, a Tuskegee alumnus and the university’s renowned head football coach, who understood that every win on the field was about players who put aside their individual needs for the good of the team.

“I grew up understanding that it’s not about you,” said Scissum Gunn, who has embraced that conviction throughout her career in higher education, including at Cal State Fullerton and Alabama State University, where she spent 20-plus years as a professor, chair, dean, associate provost and provost. "