Since 2014, Dr. Lynch has been the associate vice chancellor for educational development and technologies for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. She has been selected to serve as interim president of the system's Central Lakes College beginning on July 1.
Janet Eisner, president of Emmanuel College since 1979, the nation's longest-serving woman college president currently in office, is retiring in 2022. Christine Pharr, president of Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, and Faith C. Hensrud, president of Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College in Bemidji, Minnesota, also have announced they will step down next year.
