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Article: Cornish College president is set to retire in 2011.(YourThursday)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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Byline: Misha Berson; Seattle Times theater critic
Sergei P. Tschernisch, president of Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, says he will retire from his post at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.
An ebullient, vigorous and respected arts educator who turned 70 this year, Tschernisch assumed his Cornish job in 1994 and has significantly expanded the campus, enrollment and reputation of a once-sleepy private school that focuses on degree programs in the visual and performing arts.
In recent years, Tschernisch boldly instigated and presided over a period of remarkable expansion of Cornish. Enrollment has swelled from 500 students in 1994 to ...