Elon University’s First Female President Takes the Reins

Connie Book, Elon University’s (NC) first female president, started her new job Thursday but she is no stranger to the private campus near Burlington.  For the last two years she was provost at The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, but spent the bulk of her career as a faculty member, department chair and associate dean in Elon’s School of Communications. She rose to associate provost at Elon after a stint a decade ago as presidential faculty fellow, helping to craft Elon’s current strategic plan alongside the retiring president, Leo Lambert.