Catherine Hill to leave position as Vassar College president
Dr. Catherine Hill, president of Vassar College, will be stepping down from her post at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
According to The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hill and the board of trustees established the timing when she signed her current contract in 2012. Afterwards, she will be on sabbatical through the fall semester of 2017.
Since joining Vassar in 2006, she has worked to increase access and affordability for low income students, which has led to a shift in increasing the college’s diversity. She has also helped raise over half a billion dollars for Vassar.
“She led the college through and out of the global financial crisis; she has been an unwavering national leader for socioeconomic diversity on campus and the admission of veterans,” Board of Trustees Chair William Plapinger said in an emailed statement.
The search for the next president is expected to begin next spring and the individual will be appointed to begin in July 2017.
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