Four administrators joined the college last summer.

On May 6, Hayley Harris became IC’s vice president for human and organizational development and planning. Since 2017, Harris was the human resources director for Cornell University’s Research Division. Prior to that, she served in progressively responsible strategic human resources roles at Cornell and worked for eight years in HR positions in the Yale School of Medicine and the university’s central HR operations.

Melanie Stein, the new dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, began her position on July 1. She was dean of academic affairs at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she had been a member of the mathematics faculty since 1995. She is an expert in geometric group theory, studying groups through their actions on topological metric spaces.

On August 9, Laurie Koehler joined the college as vice president of marketing and enrollment strategy. Koehler came to IC from George Washington University where she was senior vice provost for enrollment and the student experience. Prior to that, she held leadership roles in enrollment at Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, Miami University, and the University of Virginia.

The new vice president of institutional advancement, Wendy Kobler, joined the college on September 3. Kobler held the same title at Kentucky State University in Frankfort and had previously held executive positions in advancement at Alabama A&M University, Purdue University Fort Wayne, and Wittenberg University.