This College President Led Pandemic-Era Cuts. Now She's Moving On.
Shirley Collado Shirley M. Collado, who became Ithaca College’s president amid student protests over racism and led the private New York institution during a messy period of pandemic-era financial turmoil, announced on Thursday she would resign. In January she will become president and chief executive officer of College Track, a nonprofit that aims to help underrepresented students get through college. Her four-year tenure at Ithaca is the shortest presidency in its 129-year history. Higher-ed experts have speculated that the stress of leading through the pandemic would hasten the departure...