Marisa Kelly was appointed the eleventh president of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. The university enrolls more than 5,000 undergraduate students and more than 2,200 graduate students according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Education. Women make up 55 percent of the undergraduate enrollments.
Dr. Kelly has been serving as interim president for the past 20 months. In 2014, she was named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the university. Earlier, she was provost and vice president for educational affairs at Ithaca College in New York.
Dr. Kelly is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento. She earned a master’s degree in political theory from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kansas.