Following 18 months of interim service, Dr. Rich has been officially named the seventeenth president of Yakima Valley College in the state of Washington. She has worked for the college for more than two decades, including 18 years as vice president for administrative services.
Yakima Valley College in Washington State has announced a field of three candidates for president. They are Bonny Copenhaver, president of New River Community and Technical College in West Virginia, Kerry Lynn Levett, founder of the consulting firm Ascend Higher Educational Partners, and Teresa Rich, interim president of Yakima Valley College.
Dr. Rich has spent the past 18 years as vice president for administrative services at Yakima Valley College. She will begin her new role as interim president on August 1.
