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Article: Mount Holyoke selects an alumna to lead school
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Lynn Pasquerella, provost at the University of Hartford, was
named yesterday as the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College.
Pasquerella was the unanimous recommendation of a 16-member
search committee, and will officially assume the presidency July 1.
She was introduced at the all-women's college during a ceremony on
the South Hadley campus yesterday afternoon.
"I feel thrilled," Pasquerella said by phone yesterday. "It is so
exciting for me to give back to a college that has given me so
much."
She is an alumna of the school, graduating magna cum laude with a
bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1980.
Pasquerella will succeed Joanne Creighton, who has held the
position since 1996. Under ...