C. Scott Green

Cumer Scott Green is an American businessman and academic administrator serving as the 19th president of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Green took office on July 1, 2019, and has been characterized as a "non-traditional" choice for the role, as he has neither a doctorate nor a background in higher education. He taught finance at Hofstra University as an adjunct instructor in 2003 and 2004 but considers serving as the U of I president his first job in higher education. Within the first four years as president at the U of I, Green collaborated with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other stakeholders to see the institution through crises, including financial deficits, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022 murders of four students. Green went on to lead the U of I to the largest not-for-profit fundraising campaign in state history and in receiving R1 research designation in the 2025 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and in seeing record enrollments at the U of I for ten continuous semesters when student populations at many other rural universities in the nation were on the decline.