List of presidents of Wellesley College

The following list of people have served as president of Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The current president is Paula A. Johnson.[1] Over the past 140 years of Wellesley College's operation, there have been fourteen presidents.[1] All of the previous presidents have been women.

List of presidents of Wellesley College[1]
No. Image President Term start Term end Ref.
1 Ada Howard 1875 1881 [2][3]
2 Alice Freeman Palmer 1881 1887 [4]
3 Helen Shafer 1887 1894 [5]
4 Julia Irvine 1894 1899 [6]
5 Caroline Hazard 1899 1910 [6]
6 Ellen Fitz Pendleton 1911 1936 [7]
7 Mildred McAfee Horton 1936 1949 [1]
8 Margaret Clapp 1949 1966 [1]
9 Ruth Adams 1966 1972 [1][8]
10 Barbara W. Newell[a] September 1, 1972 December 31, 1980 [1][9][10][11]
acting Carol Johnson Johns[b] July 1979 December 31, 1980 [10]
acting Maud Chaplin[c] January 1, 1981 June 30, 1981 [10]
11 Nannerl Overholser Keohane July 1, 1981 June 30, 1993[d] [12][13][14]
12 Diana Chapman Walsh October 1, 1993 June 30, 2007 [15][16]
acting Andrew Shennan[e] July 1, 2007 July 30, 2007 [17]
13 H. Kim Bottomly August 1, 2007 June 30, 2016 [18][19][20][21]
14 Paula A. Johnson July 1, 2016 current [22][23][24]

Table notes:

  1. ^ Newell took a leave of absence in July 1979 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO.
  2. ^ Johns, alumnae and member of the board of trustees, was on a leave of absence from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to serve as acting president while President Newell served as U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO.
  3. ^ Dean of the College
  4. ^ Resigned to lead Duke University.
  5. ^ Dean of the college

About the Presidents

Paula A. Johnson, inaugurated 2016

Paula A. Johnson is the fourteenth president of Wellesley and the first Black president of Wellesley College. Since July 2016, her efforts have gone into the college's mission to educate the world, create new opportunities, challenge assumptions, and embrace differences. As a cardiologist, researcher, and expert in public health and health policy, President Johnson has devoted her career to transforming the health and well-being of the communities. She was also the founding executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, chief of the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research has focused on understanding the difference in how disease is expressed for different genders and its implications on health policy.[1]

H. Kim Bottomly, inaugurated 2007

H. Kim Bottomly is the thirteenth president of Wellesley College, and she was the first scientist to be the president of the college. During her time at Wellesley, she restructured the college's finances after the 2008 recession, and the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs was created. Under her leadership, she began collaborative efforts with Olin College and Babson College. Other efforts she pushed for were to renovate and maintain the upkeep of the historic buildings on campus.

Diana Chapman Walsh '66, 1993-2007

Diana Chapman Walsh was the 12th president of Wellesley and the fourth alumna to head the college. An English major at Wellesley, she went on to earn a master’s degree in Journalism and a Ph.D. in health policy from Boston University, where she subsequently served on the faculty. Named a Kellogg National Fellow in 1987, Walsh traveled throughout the United States and abroad studying workplace democracy and principles of leadership, as well as writing poetry. Immediately before returning to Wellesley in 1993, she was the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Fourteen women have steered Wellesley's course over 140 years". Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 2023-11-28. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  2. ^ "Miss Ada L. Howard". New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State ... New Hampshire Publishing Company. 1895. p. 29.
  3. ^ Nidiffer, Jana; Bashaw, Carolyn Terry (January 4, 2001). Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. SUNY Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-7914-4818-2.
  4. ^ "The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial". The Wessley News. June 16, 1909.
  5. ^ "FUNFRAL OF MISS HELEN A. SHAFER.; Her Many Friends Attended the Services in Wellesley College Chapel". The New York Times. January 23, 1894. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Wellesley's New President: Miss Caroline Hazard Succeeds Mrs. Julia J. Irvine" (PDF). The New York Times. March 9, 1999. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  7. ^ "Ellen Fitz Pendleton, 71 Noted Educator, Dead: President Emeritus of Wellesley College Received Many World-Wide Honors". Daily Boston Globe. Boston, Mass. July 27, 1936. p. 1.
  8. ^ "President Ruth Adams Records". Wellesley College.
  9. ^ Cummings, Judith (May 6, 1980). "Wellesley's President Takes Off for Good". The New York Times. p. M6.
  10. ^ a b c "Records of the President's Office: Barbara Newell". Wellesley College.
  11. ^ "Barbara Warne Newell (1929–)". United States Department of State.
  12. ^ Livezey, Emilie Tavel (1981). "Wellesley's new president; Nannerl Keohane has Made Her Life Count Double". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  13. ^ Pruden III, William H (November 11, 2013). "Nannerl Overholser Keohane (1940–)". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  14. ^ "CHRONICLE". The New York Times. March 1, 1993. p. B8.
  15. ^ "President Diana Chapman Walsh to Step Down in June 2007". Wellesley College Office for Public Affairs. April 28, 2006. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  16. ^ Gammill, Marion B. (August 6, 1993). "Harvard Prof. Named President of Wellesley". The Harvard Crimson.
  17. ^ Wellesley College Annual Report 2006–2007 (PDF) (Report). October 2007. p. 5.
  18. ^ Moore, Mary (April 17, 2015). "Wellesley College president stepping down". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  19. ^ Conton, Ruby (April 28, 2016). "President H. Kim Bottomly's Tenure Celebrated During 2016 Springfest". The Wellesley News. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  20. ^ Balakrishna, Kanya; Siegel, Steven (May 11, 2007). "Bottomly to leave for Wellesley presidency". Yale Daily News.
  21. ^ "President Bottomly to Step Down in July of 2016: President Bottomly Shares Her Announcement with the College Community". Wellesley College. April 17, 2015.
  22. ^ "Wellesley's New President Brings a Background of Firsts". The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 9, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  23. ^ Werner-Winslow, Alexandra (July 10, 2016). "Michelle Williams and Paula Johnson Are Making Their Mark". Boston Magazine. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  24. ^ "Wellesley Names Harvard's Paula A. Johnson Its 14th President". Wellesley College.
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