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Spinner to retire as Center for Rural Engagement executive director; Cox Deckard named interim leader

Denny Spinner, executive director of the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement (CRE), will retire at the end of August, with his last day on Aug. 29. Kyla Cox Deckard, CRE’s director of strategy and communications, has been named interim executive director effective Sept. 1.

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