Nancy Fey-Yensan was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She will take office on July 1.
The college enrolls nearly 4,200 undergraduate students and more than 100 graduate students, according to the latest data supplied to the U.S. Department of Education. Women make up 55 percent of the undergraduate student body.
For the past seven years, Dr. Fey-Yensan has served as the dean of the College of Health and Human Services at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Previously, she was the associate dean of the College of Human Science and Services at the University of Rhode Island. She spent 15 years at the University of Rhode Island. Early in her career, Dr. Fey-Yensan served as a cooperative extension faculty member at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Fey-Yensan holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut.