Posts Categorized: Comings and Goings

Spaulding to Lead Vermont State Colleges

Comings and Goings ... Vermont Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding was named the next chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges, replacing chancellor Tim Donovan who will retire at the end of this year. Before joining the governor's staff in 2011, Spaulding spent 16 years in the Vermont State Senate and eight as state treasurer. He founded Montpelier's WNCS-FM in 1976 and served as the stati...

Big Fall Changes: Suffolk Appoints Turnaround Leader; Another Prez to Leave UMaine System; Burlington College Chief Resigns; Conn. Ed Commish Who Battled Unions Out

Comings and Goings ... Suffolk University named Norman R. Smith interim president, beginning Sept. 1, replacing James McCarthy. Described as a turnaround expert at Wagner College in New York City, Smith is a member of the Registry for College and University Presidents—a service that matches veteran education leaders to interim positions, where they are viewed as freer to make unpopular...

MCLA’s Grant Named Chancellor at UNC Asheville; UMA’s Handley to Nat’l U

Mary Grant Comings and Goings ... The University of North Carolina Board chose Mary K. Grant to be chancellor of UNC Asheville, the state's public liberal arts university, effective Jan. 5, 2015. Grant, the president of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2002 and recipient of NEBHE's 2014 Massachusetts State Merit Award, will succeed Anne Ponder who served as UNC Asheville chancellor fo...

USM Taps Power-ful Prez; Former NEBHE Delegate Coderre Appointed to HHS; Sloan-C Gets New Name, CEO

Comings and Goings ... The University of Maine System name former Central Maine Power President David T. Flanagan to be president of the University of Southern Maine. In addition to leading the utility's response to Maine's 1998 Ice Storm, Flanagan served previously as assistant Maine attorney general and as chief legal counsel to Maine Gov. Joseph Brennan. Former NEBHE delegate Tom Coderre ...

Maine Changes

Comings and Goings ... University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page announced that University of Southern Maine President Theo Kalikow will leave that post on July 18 and join the system office as president emerita and acting vice chancellor. In that position, she will undertake a systemwide community engagement initiative through June 30, 2015, when her employment contract ends. The Main...

Former NEBHE Chair Cowan to Leave Middlesex CC; UMaine Names First Woman Prez; RI Snags Commish from Louisiana

Carole Cowan Comings and Goings ... Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan said she will retire during the upcoming academic year. Cowan joined the college in 1976 as a professor in the business department and, in 1990, was chosen to become MCC's third president. Cowan chaired NEBHE from 2002 to 2004. University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page selected Susan J. Hunter to b...

New Prez at NHTI, Concord’s Community College; Goodman to Head Center for Policy Analysis

Susan Dunton Comings and Goings ... The Community College System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees appointed Susan Dunton to be the next president of NHTI, Concord’s Community College. Dunton's experience in college administration, academic affairs and student services spans three decades at institutions including Lesley College, the Harvard Divinity School and Fisher College. The Univer...

Donovan Leaving VSC; UMaine Prez to Ball State

Comings and Goings ... Vermont State Colleges (VSC) Chancellor Tim Donovan announced he will step down on Dec. 31, six months before the end of his contract. He served as chancellor for five years and previously led the Community College of Vermont. Separately, the VSC  board elected Martha O'Connor of Brattleboro to succeed Gary Moore as its chair. UMaine President Paul Ferguson announced ...

Ms. Gross Goes Back to Washington

Comings and Goings ... Southern Vermont College (SVC) President Karen Gross announced that she will step down in October after eight years as president of the Bennington, Vt. college, to return to Washington, D.C., where she spent 2012 working at the U.S. Department of Education. (Gross said she was not certain the department would be her specific return target.) A new SVC president is expected t...

Mills Leaving Bowdoin

Comings and Goings ... Bowdoin College President Barry Mills announced he will resign in June 2015. The Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., senior vice president for academic affairs at Fairfield University, was selected to be president of the University of San Francisco, succeeding the Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J. Rutgers University-Camden official Andrew Seligsohn was named the next president of ...