Indiana - Governor Will Lead Purdue - NYTimes.com Gov. Mitch Daniels will be the next president of Purdue University, starting in January, when his term as governor ends, the university announced Thursday. The school's trustees unanimously approved the appointment. Mr. Daniels, a Republican fiscal conservative who cannot run for a third term because of term limits, declined to run for president last year, and had been considered a possible running mate for Mitt Romney. But in a statement after the formal announcement of the Purdue job on Thursday, Mr. Daniels said that effective immediately, he would recuse himself from any partisan political activity. Purdue, a public university whose main campus is about an hour northwest of Indianapolis, enrolls about 75,000 students.