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Lynn Pasquerella
Pasquerella speaking at TEDxPioneerValley on January 21, 2012
14th President of American Association of Colleges and Universities
In office
2016–Present
Preceded byCarol Geary Schneider
18th President of Mount Holyoke College
In office
2010–2016
Preceded byJoanne V. Creighton
Succeeded bySonya Stephens
Personal details
Born (1958-12-08) December 8, 1958 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
John Kuchle
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(m. 1980)​
Children2
Alma materQuinebaug Valley Community College (transferred, 1978)
Mount Holyoke College (B.A., 1980)
Brown University (Ph.D., 1985)
ProfessionProfessor

Lynn C. Pasquerella is an American academic and the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Before she assumed this position, she was the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, serving from 2010 to 2016. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island for 22 years before becoming URI's Associate Dean of the Graduate School. From 2006 to 2008 she was Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Rhode Island. She was the Provost of the University of Hartford from 2008 to 2010.[1] She also served as the President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society from 2018 to 2021.[2]

Education

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Pasquerella is a 1979 summa cum laude graduate of Quinebaug Community College, a 1980 Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, and earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1985 from Brown University.[3]

Career

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Pasquerella is a philosopher whose area of interest is medical ethics.[4] She was a fellow in the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service and a professor of medical ethics in Alpert Medical School’s Affinity Group Program.

Pasquerella has received funding through the United States Department of Energy to work on ethical issues related to the Human Genome Project. She has also received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the American Bar Association, the Council of Graduate Schools, and the United States Office of Research Integrity. She was the principal investigator on a $3.5 million NSF ADVANCE grant to promote the careers of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and on a $750,000 NSF–Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate grant to encourage recruitment of underrepresented groups into the professoriate in STEM fields.[5]

Pasquerella has served on the boards of Paul Newman's Discovery Center and the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions, for which she has also been a project leader in Kenya.[6] She has served on the board of directors of the Rectory School, Day Kimball Hospital’s ethics committee and as chair of its Institutional Review Board, the Rhode Island Bio Bank Steering Committee, the Rhode Island Health Department’s Institutional Review Board, and the advisory board for the Women’s Adult Correctional Facility in Rhode Island.[7]

Since July 2010, Pasquerella has hosted The Academic Minute, a radio segment and podcast featuring a different university-based researcher each day. The Academic Minute is produced by Northeast Public Radio in partnership with the American Association of Colleges and Universities.[8] In addition to Northeast Public Radio, The Academic Minute, which airs on WAMC, is syndicated to other stations throughout North America and streamed internationally via the web.

On January 4, 2016, Pasquerella announced that she would be stepping down as president of Mount Holyoke College at the end of the 2016 academic year. Pasquerella became the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities starting July 1, 2016.[9] From 2018 to 2021, Pasquerella served as the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She serves on the boards of several institutions and organizations, including the Lingnan Foundation Board of Trustees,[10] the Heterodox Academy Advisory Council,[11] the Olin College of Engineering Board of Trustees,[12] and the national Trust for the Humanities.[13] She is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of several academic publications, including the Journal of Public Integrity,[14] LearningWell Magazine,[15] the Journal of Brentano and the Aristotelean Tradition,[16] and Public Philosophy Journal.[17]

Awards and recognition

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In December 2022, Pasquerella was awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement by the STAR Scholars Network. In October 2022, she received the Brown University Alumni Association’s William Rogers Award,[18] and in May 2020, she received the Mount Holyoke College Alumni Association’s Elizabeth Topham Kennan Award.[19] In May 2019, Pasquerella was named one of America’s Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.[20]

Pasquerella has received the 2018 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service and Altruism from Mary Baldwin College.[21] On May 20, 2017, Pasquerella was the commencement speaker for Elizabethtown College's Class of 2017.[22] On June 3, 2017, she received an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from Bishop's University in Quebec, Canada.[23] Pasquerella delivered a commencement address and received an honorary doctorate degree at the University of Hartford’s graduate commencement ceremony on May 18, 2019.[24] She also received honorary doctorate degrees during the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Florida on May 2, 2019,[25] and the University of Rhode Island on May 19.[26] She received honorary doctorates from Mount Holyoke College in 2020, from Concordia College in 2021, and from Bay Path University in 2022.[27][28]

Publications

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  • What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy, University of Virginia Press, January, 2022.
  • Ethical Issues in Home Health Care. Co–authored with Rosalind Ladd and Sheri Smith. Charles C. Thomas Publishing, 2002.
  • Ethical Dilemmas in Public Administration. Edited with Alfred Killilea and Michael Vocino. Praeger, 1996.
  • "Brentano’s Theory of Value: Beauty, Goodness, and the Concept of Correct Emotions" with Wilhelm Baumgartner in The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, 2004. Pages 220–237.[29]

References

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  1. ^ "Lynn Pasquerella Becomes New Provost - News". Archived from the original on 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
  2. ^ "PBK - Phi Beta Kappa Press Release". www.pbk.org. Archived from the original on 2019-05-16.
  3. ^ "Biography :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College". www.mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  4. ^ "Lynn Pasquerella". Association of American Colleges & Universities. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  5. ^ "News Release :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College". www.mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  6. ^ "Biography :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College". www.mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  7. ^ "Lynn Pasquerella Named 18th President of Mount Holyoke College | Reut…". Reuters. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013.
  8. ^ "The Academic Minute". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  9. ^ Capelouto, J.D. (2016-01-04). "Mount Holyoke College president to resign later in 2016". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  10. ^ "Changes to Board of Trustees at Lingnan Foundation". lingnanfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  11. ^ "Team — Heterodox Academy".
  12. ^ "Board of Trustees | Olin College of Engineering".
  13. ^ "Leadership".
  14. ^ https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=mpin20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ "About LearningWell Magazine".
  16. ^ "About Us – Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition".
  17. ^ "PPJ Editorial Advisory Board | Public Philosophy Journal". publicphilosophyjournal.org. Archived from the original on 2019-05-13.
  18. ^ "William Rogers Award".
  19. ^ "148th Annual Meeting held virtually – Alumnae Association".
  20. ^ "Top 35 Women in Higher Education". diverseeducation.com. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  21. ^ "Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards". Mary Baldwin University. 27 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  22. ^ "Elizabethtown College grants diplomas to graduates | June 12, 2017 | The Daily News serving Huntingdon, Mount Union, Orbisonia, and Saxton PA". huntingdondailynews.our-hometown.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  23. ^ "BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES HONORARY DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS AT ITS 189TH CONVOCATION | Bishop's University". 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  24. ^ "Graduate Commencement 2019 | University of Hartford". www.hartford.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  25. ^ "President Judy Genshaft to Lead Her Final USF Commencement Ceremonies - University of South Florida". news.usf.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  26. ^ "Speakers and Honored Guests". University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  27. ^ "Mount Holyoke to hold 2020 Commencement". Mount Holyoke College. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  28. ^ "2021 Honorary Degrees". Concordia College. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
  29. ^ "URI Philosophy Department". www.uri.edu. Archived from the original on 25 December 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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