The board of trustees of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, has selected Carolyn J. Stefanco as the institution’s 11th president. The college enrolls about 2,900 undergraduate students and 1,800 graduate students. Women make up 67 percent of the undergraduate student body.
Since 2010, Dr. Stefanco has been vice president for academic affairs and dean at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She will begin her term as president of The College of Saint Rose on July 1.
Before joining the administration at Agnes Scott College, Dr. Stefanco was the founding dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Stanislaus. Earlier in her career she was chair of the history department and director of the women’s studies program at California Polytechnic State University. She also served on the faculty at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.
Dr. Stefanco is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned a master’s degree at Binghamton University of the State University of New York system and a Ph.D. in history from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.