Pine Manor College Names New President

Alane Karen Shanks was named president of Pine Manor College, the women’s college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Since 2006, Dr. Shanks has served as vice president of administration and finance at Roxbury Community College. Before that appointment, she was associate dean for educational administration and finance at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Shanks is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara. She earned a master’s degree in management of human services from Brandeis University and an educational doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. Her doctoral dissertation on affirmative action at Harvard Medical School was named the best paper by a new investigator by the American Educational Research Association.