None of those changes are unheard-of in higher education, but they’re relatively uncommon and therefore noteworthy when they all happen in the same place. Observers say they might make sense in a case like Dickinson’s but that they also reflect long-unfolding changes driven by different trends in higher education.
“I see all these changes in a long-term pattern of greater variation in the kinds of experiences and credentials that colleges and universities are willing to consider and sometimes inclined to favor as they choose a president,” said Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges, a trade group for private colleges and universities.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The federal judge who outlawed “intelligent design” from being taught in public schools and struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage will leave the bench to become the president at Dickinson College, the school said Friday.
John E. Jones III, the chief judge of the U.S. Middle District of Pennsylvania, will resign this summer to take a two-year term as interim president of the Carlisle-based Dickinson.
Jones, 65, graduated from Dickinson in 1977 and chairs the school’s board of trustees. Members approached him about serving as the interim president after Margee M. Ensign, the current president, notified them that she would be leaving, he said.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III to leave bench to head Dickinson College Marc Levy
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The federal judge who outlawed “intelligent design” from being taught in public schools and struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage will leave the bench to become the president at Dickinson College, the school said Friday.
John E. Jones III, the chief judge of the U.S. Middle District of Pennsylvania, will resign this summer to take a two-year term as interim president of the Carlisle-based Dickinson.
Jones, 65, graduated from Dickinson in 1977 and chairs the school’s board of trustees. Members approached him about serving as the interim president after Margee M. Ensign, the current president, notified them that she would be leaving, he said.
Dickinson College President Margee Ensign announced on Friday she is resigning from her post on June 30. U.S. Middle District Judge John E. Jones III, chair of the college's Board of Trustees, will take over as interim president.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The federal judge who outlawed “intelligent design” from being taught in public schools and struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage will leave the bench to become the president at Dickinson College, the school said Friday.