New Presidents for McDaniel and Washington College
MICUA Matters
Spring 2010
McDaniel College, the 142-year-old private, liberal arts and sciences College in central Maryland, has selected Roger Casey as its ninth President. Casey, 48, who currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost of Rollins College in Florida, will succeed Joan Develin Coley, who will complete a transformative decade as President in June 2010. Prior to Rollins, Casey received distinguished teaching awards from Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and Florida State University and was a nominee for the Carnegie National Professor of the Year. In 1994, Casey was named a Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that supported his travel to 16 countries over a four-year period to examine the role of vision in the creation of community.
Washington College, Maryland’s first institution of higher learning and the nation’s 10th oldest, has selected Mitchell Reiss to be the College’s 27th President. Reiss, 52, has served as a U.S. Presidential envoy, ambassador, policymaker, lawyer, author, and university professor. He will assume the presidency on July 1, 2010, succeeding Baird Tipson, who has led the liberal arts College since 2004. Reiss currently serves as diplomat-in-residence at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he has also served as Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dean of International Affairs, Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, professor of law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and professor of government.
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McDaniel College, the 142-year-old private, liberal arts and sciences College in central Maryland, has selected Roger Casey as its ninth President. Casey, 48, who currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost of Rollins College in Florida, will succeed Joan Develin Coley, who will complete a transformative decade as President in June 2010. Prior to Rollins, Casey received distinguished teaching awards from Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and Florida State University and was a nominee for the Carnegie National Professor of the Year. In 1994, Casey was named a Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that supported his travel to 16 countries over a four-year period to examine the role of vision in the creation of community.
Washington College, Maryland’s first institution of higher learning and the nation’s 10th oldest, has selected Mitchell Reiss to be the College’s 27th President. Reiss, 52, has served as a U.S. Presidential envoy, ambassador, policymaker, lawyer, author, and university professor. He will assume the presidency on July 1, 2010, succeeding Baird Tipson, who has led the liberal arts College since 2004. Reiss currently serves as diplomat-in-residence at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he has also served as Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dean of International Affairs, Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, professor of law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and professor of government.