On Dec. 21, 2020, the APSU Board of Trustees named Licari because the College’s eleventh president. He formally arrived at Austin Peay on March 1, 2021. Licari beforehand served as provost and vp for Educational Affairs at Indiana State College in Terre Haute, Indiana, the place he oversaw all the faculty’s tutorial features, together with 34 tutorial departments housed in 5 faculties. He additionally was liable for overseeing a lot of that College’s strategic plan and its $100 million common fund price range.
Licari earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the College of Minnesota and his Masters of Arts in political science and Ph.D. in political science with a concentrate on public administration from the College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.