Rayfield will start her new job July 1.
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Stuart Rayfield will be the first woman to be named president of Columbus State University.
Rayfield is no stranger to Columbus State, where she spent a decade as a professor and administrator before leaving the campus in 2016. She returns after serving as the university system’s chancellor for leadership and development since 2018.
Rayfield also has prior experience as a campus president, having worked as an interim president at Gordon College and the University of West Georgia.
An Alabama native, Rayfield earned her doctorate in higher education administration from Vanderbilt University. She will be Columbus State's sixth president since its founding in 1958.