Kent Devereaux Inaugurated As Goucher College’s 12th President Friday

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Kent Devereaux was inaugurated arsenic Goucher College’s 12th president Friday aft assuming the relation successful 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic had delayed the ceremony, according to a Goucher statement.

More than 30 assemblage presidents and delegates from acquisition institutions crossed the state attended the ceremony, on with authorities and assemblage leaders.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, gave the keynote address.

After Devereaux arrived, helium oversaw Goucher’s effect to the pandemic and worked connected its precocious launched caller strategical plan, “Cultivating Global Changemakers,” to heighten pupil success, grow planetary education, and stress inclusivity. He besides is spearheading the yearlong process to make a caller field maestro plan, focusing connected accessibility, sustainability, and connectivity to the community.

“It is an grant to pb this distinguished wide arts instauration and to assistance charter its beardown aboriginal with rigorous caller programs, innovative caller partnerships, and strategical superior investments,” Devereaux said successful a statement. “Goucher’s distinctive accent connected planetary acquisition and community-based learning helps our graduates make the innovative reasoning and bold enactment that volition beryllium indispensable to marque an interaction successful our communities and the world.”

Devereaux has much than 30 years of hands-on acquisition successful higher acquisition strategical planning, program innovation, and enrollment management, arsenic good arsenic fundraising for nonprofit higher acquisition institutions. He served antecedently arsenic president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art. His nonrecreational way besides includes clip arsenic a module subordinate and seat of the Department of Music astatine Cornish College of the Arts, arsenic elder vice president and dean of program astatine Kaplan University, and arsenic elder vice president for editorial and merchandise improvement astatine Encyclopedia Britannica.

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“After much than a yearlong hold owed to the pandemic, we are pleased to officially observe President Devereaux’s tenure astatine Goucher,” Lisa Stromberg, chairwoman of the Goucher College Board of Trustees, said successful the statement. “We are assured that Kent’s imaginativeness and enactment for the assemblage volition proceed the contented of world excellence and postgraduate occurrence that Goucher has earned for much than 135 years.”