Widener University美国威德勒大学迎来信任校长

Widener University美国威德勒大学迎来信任校长

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Widener University美国威德勒大学迎来信任校长

近日美国威德纳大学宣布，纽约州立大学杰尼苏分校教务长兼学术事务副校长Stacey Robertson博士被选为该大学的第11任校长。罗伯逊是一位成功的领导者，在战略规划、支持和提升代表性不足群体的候选人的招聘实践以及开发课程以帮助学生在全球工作场所取得成功方面拥有丰富的经验，她将于7月1日就任校长。

她将接替Julie Wollman博士，后者将从Widener总统职位上退休，担任宾夕法尼亚大学教育研究生院高等教育实践教授。

罗伯逊在Geneseo度过了过去五年，她也是那里的历史教授。在此之前，她曾于2015年至2017年担任华盛顿州埃伦斯堡中央华盛顿大学艺术与人文学院院长，并于2012年至2014年担任布拉德利大学文理学院临时院长。她还是布拉德利的美国传统奥格尔斯比教授，她的职业生涯包括从2008年到2012年担任历史系主任，并在此之前担任妇女研究项目主任18年。

在大学进行了由董事会副主席詹姆斯•麦克'85领导的全国性搜索后，Widener董事会一致投票赞成任命罗伯逊。这一任命让罗伯逊掌管了Widener——一所拥有200年历史的私立非营利性大学，其中包括宾夕法尼亚军事学院八年的历史。今天，它拥有近6,000名研究生和本科生，他们在七所学院和学校学习，其中包括两所独立认可的法学院。该大学包括三个校区，分别位于宾夕法尼亚州和特拉华州，还提供在线教育。

罗伯逊出生于亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔，在加州惠蒂尔学院获得社会历史和社会运动学士学位，她对种族正义的兴趣与日俱增。她的顾问向她介绍了当时一位名不见经传的废奴主义者兼部长帕克•皮尔斯伯里 (Parker Pillsbury) 的信件集。她回忆说，当时这些信件被存放在多个耐克鞋盒中，情况不再如此。

她在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校获得历史博士学位，并在伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚的布拉德利大学担任历史学助理教授，开始了她的学术生涯，在那里她度过了 20 年，最后两年担任文科和理科临时院长. 在布拉德利，她还担任了四年历史系主任，并领导了 18 年的女性研究项目。

然后她成为中央华盛顿大学的院长，自 2017 年以来一直在手指湖地区的纽约州立大学校园工作。

罗伯逊说，她曾与反奴隶制历史学家合作，她将其描述为一个致力于为反人口贩运运动带来历史背景的非营利组织。

“这让我觉得我们作为学者所做的工作在当今世界具有意义，”她说。

Widener 官员表示，他们之所以选择罗伯逊，是因为她在战略规划方面的专业知识、“雇用支持和提升代表性不足群体的候选人的做法，以及开发让学生为在全球工作场所取得成功做好准备的课程。”

罗伯逊是一位热爱远足、骑自行车和亲近大自然的狂热读者，与 J. Stephen Smith 结婚并育有两个儿子，较小的是印第安纳州厄勒姆学院的大三学生。

她说她在费城地区花了一些时间做历史工作并且喜欢它。

“我很高兴能加入更大的费城社区，”她说。

Widener University美国威德勒大学迎来信任校长

Widener University has named as its next president an academic leader and historian whose expertise is in U.S.women and the 19th-century antislavery movement.

Stacey M.Robertson,provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Geneseo,will begin July 1 at Widener,which enrolls nearly 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students and is based in Chester.She will replace Julie E.Wollman,who announced last June she would leave this summer to become a professor of practice in higher education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

“This is a caring,compassionate,determined,innovative and remarkably talented community,”Robertson,56,told students and staff gathered for a live announcement of her presidency that was held remotely.“As your next president,I am committed to you—all members of the extended Widener community including our alumni,our friends,and our neighbors—and to building on the superb foundation that you have created.”

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Born in Scottsdale,Ariz.,Robertson got her bachelor’s in social history and social movements at Whittier College in California,where her interest in racial justice grew.Her adviser introduced her to a collection of letters by,at that time,a little-known abolitionist and minister named Parker Pillsbury.At the time,the letters were being stored in multiple Nike shoe boxes,she recalled.That’s no longer the case. Widener University

“His life became the topic of my senior project at Whittier and became the topic of my dissertation and my first book,”she said.“He taught me so much about racial justice and social justice in the 19th century.He was one of the most amazing male feminists of the 19th century.”

She got her doctorate in history at the University of California Santa Barbara and started her academic career as an assistant professor of history at Bradley University in Peoria,Ill.,where she spent 20 years,the last two as interim dean of liberal arts and sciences.At Bradley,she also served as chair of the history department for four years and led the women’s studies program for 18.

She then became a dean at Central Washington University,and since 2017 has been at the SUNY campus in the Finger Lakes region.