Melanie Hatch was named chancellor of the Du Bois campus of Pennsylvania State University. The campus in the northwestern part of the state enrolls about 800 students.
Dr. Hatch is currently the founding dean of the College of Engineering and Business at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. She has served in that role since 2008. Previously, she was dean of the College of Business at the Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne. She has served as a full-time faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University and Ohio University.
Dr. Hatch is a graduate of Indiana University, where she majored in computer science. She holds a master’s degree in management science from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a Ph.D. in management science from Virginia Tech.