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NAICU Announces Board Appointments for 2004-05

President of Franklin Pierce College Is Named Chair

February 13, 2004

A list of the full NAICU Board of Directors is also available online.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The membership of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) ratified the election of 13 new members of its board of directors, and the appointment of new officers and executive committee members, on February 4 at the 2004 NAICU Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Chair of the NAICU Board of Directors

George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College (N.H.), has been elected chair of the NAICU Board of Directors. Vice chair of the board in 2003-04, Hagerty succeeds Mary Brown Bullock, president of Agnes Scott College, who remains on the board as past chair.

Hagerty has been president of Franklin Pierce since 1995. Under his leadership, the main campus in Rindge has seen record enrollment and retention, and the college has developed its first graduate program and academic institute.

Before joining Franklin Pierce, he served as corporate vice president of TCI/Taylor, Hagerty Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm, and was a partner in Paragon Systems Inc. Hagerty also held several positions at Stonehill College, including director of government relations; director of corporate, foundation, and government relations; and director of academic development. Hagerty has taught at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and at Stonehill College. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stonehill College, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard.

Vice Chair of the NAICU Board

Douglas C. Bennett, president of Earlham College (Ind.), has been named vice chair. He will become chair in 2005-06. Bennett has been president and a professor of politics at Earlham since 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he was vice president and chief operations officer of the American Council on Learned Societies in New York City. From 1989 to 1993, he was the vice president and provost at Reed College. Growing out of his work at Reed, Bennett helped to create the Portland Area Library System (PORTALS). During 1993-94, he served as the first executive director of PORTALS. Earlier, he was a political science professor at Temple University from 1973 to 1989. Bennett has a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Additional Officers of the Board

Daniel M. Lambert, president of Baker University (Kan.), has been named treasurer.

William P. Leahy, president of Boston College (Mass.) has been named secretary.

Members of the Executive Committee

Seven board members have been named to one-year terms as members of the board's executive committee. They work with the five officers to spearhead the development and implementation of NAICU's goals and priorities.

Oswald P. Bronson, Sr., President, Bethune Cookman College (Fla.)
At-Large Member

E. Kearney Dietz, President, Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities
Chair, National Association of Independent College and University State Executives

John V. Griffith, President, Presbyterian College (S.C.)
Chair, Committee on Accountability

Linda N. Hanson, President, College of Santa Fe (N.M.)
Chair, Committee on Student Aid

Frederick V. Moore, President, Buena Vista University (Iowa)
Chair, Committee on Tax Policy

Mary Pat Seurkamp, President, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Chair, Committee on Policy Analysis and Public Relations

Ralph Wagoner, Executive Director, Lutheran Educational Conference of North America
Chair, NAICU Secretariat

New NAICU Board Members

Eight new members were elected to three-year terms on the NAICU board, representing the association's national regions:

Roger Mandle, President, Rhode Island School of Design
Region I (Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., R.I., Vt.)

David A. Caputo, President, Pace University (N.Y.)
Region II (Del., D.C., Md., N.J., N.Y.)

Daniel L. Anderson, President, Appalachian Bible College (W.Va.)
Region III (Ky., Ohio, Pa., W.Va.)

F. Stuart Gulley, President, LaGrange College (Ga.)
Region IV (Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.)

F. Gregory Campbell, President, Carthage College (Wis.)
Region V (Ill., Ind., Mich., Wis.)

Oscar C. Page, President, Austin College (Texas)
Region VI (Ala., Ark., La., Miss., Okla., Tenn., Texas)

Leslie H. Garner, Jr., President, Cornell College (Iowa)
Region VII (Iowa, Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., N.D., S.D.)

Thomas E. Cronin, President, Whitman College (Wash.)
Region VIII (Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Hawaii, Idaho, Mont., N.M., Nev., Ore., Utah, Wash., Wyo.)

Four presidents have been named to three-year terms as at-large members of the board:

Benjamin Ladner, President, American University (D.C.)

Frances Lucas, President, Millsaps College (Miss.)

Tessa M. Pollack, President, Our Lady of the Lake University (Texas)

Diane Boardley Suber, President, Saint Augustine’s College (N.C.)

One individual joins four other ex officio members of the board, and begins a three-year term:

Scott Fleming, Assistant to the President for Federal Relations, Georgetown University (D.C.)

Contact

• Tony Pals
  (202) 785-8866
  tony@naicu.edu