Sandra B. Richtermeyer has been named the next president of Nevada State University. She will begin her presidency on August 1.
Located southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada State University enrolls about 7,500 undergraduate students and roughly 100 graduate students, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. Women represent 71 percent of the undergraduate population.
With more than 30 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Richtermeyer has spent the past three years as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Rutgers University-Camden. Before her current role, she was dean of the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has also served in faculty and administrative roles at Xavier University in Ohio and the University of Wyoming.
Dr. Richtermeyer is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, where she majored in management information systems and accounting. She holds a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Colorado Denver and both an MBA and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Colorado Boulder.