Bryn Mawr College loses third administrator in one month
Bryn Mawr College has announced the loss of yet another top administrator - its third in less than a month - in what has become an unusually high turnover in leadership at the women's college.
Michele Rasmussen, dean of the undergraduate college, has accepted the position of dean of students for the University of Chicago.
Just last week, the college announced that Laurie Koehler, dean of admissions and interim dean of enrollment, was leaving to become senior associate provost for enrollment management at George Washington University.
Also last month, the college's board of trustees said Bryn Mawr president Jane McAuliffe would step down June 30. Her five-year tenure is the shortest in the history of the selective women's college. Neither McAuliffe nor the college have elaborated on the reasons for her departure.
It means the college will be faced with replacing a number of top administrators simultaneously.
There have been other high-profile administrative departures this academic year. Jenny Rickard, chief enrollment and communications officer, left in the fall. Elliott Shore, the chief information officer, also departed in the fall. And Donna Frithsen, who had been serving as a senior fund-raising adviser, left this winter to become associate vice president for advancement for Drexel's College of Medicine.
Rasmussen became dean of the undergraduate college in July 2010. She will depart June 30. The college did not name a replacement.
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