Longtime Administrator in Higher Education to Lead Prestigious Preparatory School

Margaret A. Jablonski, vice president for student affairs at the University of New Haven since 2010, was named head of school at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She will take her post in July 2012.

Dr. Jablonski has 30 years of experience in senior administrative positions at institutions such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, MIT, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Connecticut. She has taught at Brown University and North Carolina State University.

In accepting the appointment, Dr. Jablonski said, “My calling is education. My passion is working with young women. Educating girls for leading purposeful lives and having an impact on the world around them and preparing girls for their rightful positions as leaders in society is important to me.”

Dr. Jablonski holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She earned an educational doctorate from Boston University where her dissertation examined the leadership style of women who served as college and university presidents.