Two Women Are Finalists to Lead the Machias Campus of the University of Maine

The University of Maine has announced a field of four finalists for the position of vice president for academic affairs and head of the Machias campus. The campus, in far eastern Maine, enrolls less than 800 students. Women make up 69 percent of the undergraduate student body.

All four finalists will visit campus by the first week in December for a series of interviews and public forums. Two of the four finalists are women.

Elizabeth Mauch is a professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Until this past spring, she served as dean of the College of Education at Bloomsburg. Dr. Mauch is a graduate of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University, also in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Heather Lattimer is the executive director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship in Education at the University of San Diego. She is the former associate dean of the College of Education at the university. She joined the faculty at the University of San Diego in 2006. Dr. Lattimer is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University. She holds a master’s degree in social science education from Stanford University and an educational doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.