|  | | | | | DR. SUSAN HENKING APPOINTED
14TH PRESIDENT OF SHIMER COLLEGE
|  | First Woman named President since
Founder Frances Wood Shimer
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| Susan E. Henking, Ph.D., Adviser to the Board of Trustees “Futures Thinking and Strategic Planning Initiative” within the Office of the President at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has been elected the 14th President of Shimer by the College Board of Trustees. Sally Brown, Chair of the Shimer Board of Trustees, announced the appointment today in a letter to the Shimer community.
Dr. Henking will take office on July 1, 2012 and succeeds Ed Noonan, who has served as Interim President since 2010.
“Susan Henking is a superb scholar, teacher, and leader in higher education, who is ideally suited to become the next president of Shimer College. She is articulate and knowledgeable about the Great Books, and she has the sophistication, analytical talents, and energy to be a great president. The Board of Trustees is delighted at her appointment and we look forward to a brilliant future for Shimer under her leadership,” said Robert O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Chair of the Presidential Search Committee.
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