WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A vice president at a private North Carolina college for women and high school for girls has been named interim president at the school.
Salem Academy and College announced on its web page on Monday that Susan Henking, current interim vice president for academic and student affairs and dean of the college since last year, will become interim president when president Sandra Doran leaves at the end of the current academic year to become president of Bay Path University, a private institution in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports Henking served as the last president of Shimer College, a private liberal arts college that was merged into another private college in Illinois in 2017.
Doran led a fundraising campaign that exceeded its $10 million goal and resolved financial issues that led the school’s accrediting agency to put the school on probation for 18 months before the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges removed Salem from probationary status in December.
Richard Vinson, currently the college’s associate vice president for academic affairs, will serve as the interim vice president of academic and student affairs.
Salem is looking for a permanent president but hasn’t announced a timetable for that search.
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