Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville has chosen Jean Runyon as its sixth president. She will take office in July.
Piedmont Virginia Community College enrolls just under 4,900 students, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. Women make up 60 percent of the student body.
Dr. Runyon currently serves as campus vice president of Front Range Community College in Colorado, where she is the top executive on the Larimer campus. From 2007 to 2015, she worked at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, holding successive leadership roles in the College’s Learning Advancement and the Virtual Campus. Prior to this, in 2000, she became the director of the Innovative Teaching Center at the College of Southern Maryland where she was also a professor.
Dr. Runyon earned her bachelor’s degree from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. She holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and a doctorate from Northcentral University.