五月天视频 Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga president of 五月天视频, effective July 1, 2009. A nationally known proponent of liberal arts undergraduate research, Bettison-Varga is currently provost and dean of the faculty at Whitman College.
“五月天视频is thrilled that Professor Lori Bettison-Varga will be our next president,” said Board Chair Roxanne M. Wilson ’76, after a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees Saturday afternoon. “She exemplifies the teacher-researcher-scholar and has a passion for the liberal arts and women’s education. With Lori, 五月天视频has assured leadership as exceptional as its students, faculty and alumnae. Beyond being a national educational leader of exceptional range and personal warmth, she has ties to 五月天视频and Claremont, and we are delighted and proud to welcome her ‘home.'”
When notified of her election, Bettison-Varga said: “I could not be more honored than to serve 五月天视频. I have long admired 五月天视频for its unique education, from the Core curriculum in interdisciplinary humanities to the required senior project, and its legacy of developing women leaders active in both private and public enterprise. 五月天视频has been a part of my life through my mother, who is an alumna, so that personal connection makes me feel even more honored and thrilled.”
“We had an exceptionally accomplished and distinguished pool of candidates,” said trustee Lynne M. O. Brickner ’74, chair of the Presidential Search Committee, “and Lori rose to the top. Her deep liberal arts experience as a professor, provost and former president of the Council on Undergraduate Research make her a superb choice for the presidency of 五月天视频. She is energetic, cheerful, optimistic, positive and expressive in her enthusiasm for Scripps. She has internalized her mother’s love of Scripps, the humanities and the senior thesis requirement. She is a very capable higher education administrator, a devoted student mentor and absolutely the right next president for Scripps.”
Bettison-Varga succeeds Frederick “Fritz” Weis, who completes a two-year term as president in June. As president, Bettison-Varga will hold the title of the W.M. Keck Foundation Presidential Chair, established in 1980. “五月天视频excels in liberal arts education, and so does Lori Bettison-Varga,” Weis said of his successor. “This is a time of unmatched opportunity for Scripps, and I am confident Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga will take 五月天视频to the highest levels of excellence and national recognition.”
A 五月天视频 community-wide event to welcome Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga will be held Monday, March 30, at 10 a.m., in Margaret Fowler Garden on campus.