Mark Kennedy

Mark Raymond Kennedy is an American businessman, politician, and administrator who previously served as the president of the University of Colorado (CU) system. Before that, he served as 12th president of the University of North Dakota, and before that led the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. A Republican, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota from 2001 to 2007. Kennedy did not seek reelection in 2006, instead running in the 2006 election for U.S. Senate. He lost to Democratic–Farmer–Labor nominee Amy Klobuchar.