Catawba College Announces Appointment of Lauren Cox as Vice President for Finance and Administration
April 29, 2021
Catawba College announced the appointment of Lauren Cox as vice president for finance and administration after a comprehensive national search. Lauren’s tenure will begin at Catawba on May 12th. Currently, Lauren serves as the interim chief financial officer for Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. At Catawba, Cox will also serve as the chief financial officer for the College.
“I’m so pleased that our search led us to Lauren Cox. Lauren brings an array of skills and experience to us, including a keen, creative mind, an innovative approach to problems and opportunities, and a distinctive energy and commitment to excellence,” Catawba College President David Nelson said. “Beyond that, our community resonated with Lauren in ways that confirm she is the right leader for this role at Catawba College. I am thrilled that she is joining the Catawba family.”
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Daniel Greenstein, the new chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, speaks to faculty and staff members during a listening tour to East Stroudsburg University this week.
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Not so with the Harvard Management Company, which shepherds the Universityâs more than $40 billion endowment. HMCâs success or failure decides if the University can fund pathbreaking research, hire additional faculty in needed fields, build a long-desired student multicultural center, and even keep its lights on.
Yet this past year marked the 12th in a row in which HMC has underperformed the stock market as a whole. In other words, if Harvard were to have just placed all its disposable endowment funds into a simple passive index fund a decade ago and left it there untouched, the University would have saved close to half a billion dollars in bloated salaries for HMC exec