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Among Comings and Goings, UVM and Carsey Institute Name Interim Chiefs; Former Unity Prez Seeks Sustainability Leaders at Second Nature

John O. Harney — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:55:09 +0000

University of Vermont trustees named former Provost A. John Bramley to serve as interim president, beginning Aug. 1. He will succeed Daniel Fogel, who is resigning the presidency after nine years in charge and will join the UVM faculty. Bramley, himself a longstanding member of the UVM faculty, served as acting president in 2006 when Fogel suffered from acute pancreatitis. From 2007 to 2011, Bramley was president of the Windham Foundation, the largest private foundation in Vermont.

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The University of New Hampshire named former Provost Bruce L. Mallory to be interim director of the the university's Carsey Institute for the next two years.

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Mitchell Thomashow, who stepped down as president of Unity College earlier this month, took over as part-time director of the Second Nature Presidential Fellows Program, which is designed to help college leaders promote sustainability agendas on their campuses. Thomashow urged colleagues to share a prospectus for the fellows program with potential candidates.

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Saint Joseph College appointed four new trustees: Patricia LeShane, CEO and co-founder of Sullivan & LeShane, which provides legislative and administrative lobbying, issues-oriented government affairs, public relations and strategic communications services; Nancy Matthews, chancellor of the Diocese of Bridgeport, which includes more than 460,000 registered Catholics in Fairfield County; Lewis Robinson Jr., an authority on antitrust law and legislative issues; and Christine Whitehead, an attorney and author.

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Champlain College named Dave Strubler, formerly of Michigan's Kettering University, to be dean of the college's Division of Business.

Hot off the Prez: Hampshire Plucks Lash; Scientist Mulkey to Lead Unity

John O. Harney — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:42:56 +0000

Hampshire College named sustainability leader Jonathan Lash to be its next president. Lash has been president of the environmental think tank World Resources Institute since 1993. From 1993 to 1999, he was co-chair of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, the group of government, business, labor, civil rights and environmental leaders appointed by President Clinton to develop strategies to promote sustainable development. Lash also held posts as director of Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center, Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources, and Vermont Commissioner of Environmental Conservation.

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Unity College trustees named Stephen Mulkey, director of the Program in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho, to be the next president of the small environmental college in Maine, beginning in July. Mulkey will succeed Mitchell Thomashow.

UConn Names Female Leader; Two Green Champions Depart NE Presidencies

John O. Harney — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:15:01 +0000

The University of Connecticut appointed Susan Herbst as its first female president. Herbst was executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia and, before that, acting president of the State University of New York at Albany. Her brother, Jeffrey Herbst, is president of Colgate University.

Meanwhile, New England will have to learn to live without two of America's greenest college presidents.

College of the Atlantic President David F. Hales, who announced he will step down after graduation in June, will go on extended leave beginning Jan. 1, 2011. The COA board named current Administrative Dean Andrew Griffiths as interim president.

Unity College President Mitchell Thomashow steps down as the ninth president on July 1, leaving the small environmental college in rural Unity, Maine, with a national niche as a champion of sustainability.