Deborah DiCroce, president of Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past 13 years, has announced that she will step down. On March 1, 2012, Dr. DiCroce will become president and CEO of the nonprofit Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Before taking over as president of Tidewater Community College in 1998, Dr. DiCroce was president of Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. She began her academic career teaching English at the Virginia Beach campus of Tidewater Community College.
President DiCroce holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Old Dominion University. She earned an educational doctorate at the College of William and Mary.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.