ITHAKA, the not-for-profit leader in advancing and preserving knowledge and improving education worldwide, has announced that Vassar College President Catharine (Cappy) Bond Hill will join the organisation as Managing Director of its research and consulting service, Ithaka S+R, in September, 2016.
Hill, one of higher education's most impactful college presidents and an accomplished economist, will lead Ithaka S+R's national work as a partner and trusted source of research for college and university leaders, academic libraries, policy analysts and funders. Hill will succeed Deanna Marcum, who will continue to serve as senior advisor. Under Marcum's stewardship, Ithaka S+R developed highly-regarded programs in Educational Transformation and Libraries and Scholarly Communication, producing research and services to improve education by delivering better outcomes for students as well as providing leadership for the evolving scholarly communication ecosystem.
For the past ten years, Hill has served as president of Vassar College, one of the top liberal arts schools in the United States. Under her presidency, Vassar has emerged as a national leader in improving affordability and enrolling a more socioeconomically diverse student body, including being awarded the inaugural one-million dollar Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence in 2015 from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
For the past several years, Hill has also gained a unique perspective on the higher education landscape as a member of ITHAKA's board of trustees. ITHAKA has made significant contributions to improving higher education not only through the work of Ithaka S+R but through the development of two services that are now part of the essential fabric of the global scholarly communications ecosystem, the academic resource JSTOR and the Portico digital preservation service. Engagement in this area has furthered Hill's understanding of today's technological, networked environment and the changes impacting higher education as it relates to research and scholarly outputs, including the digital transition of libraries.
As Hill continues her long-standing commitment to improving higher education at the helm of Ithaka S+R, she will have a new vantage point to understand and influence approaches at a national level as well as working with a more diverse set of institutions on their local needs. As one example, Ithaka S+R's current work includes acting as an independent evaluator on a major First in the World grant-funded project being undertaken by the University Innovation Alliance, a consortium of eleven large, forward-looking public research universities.
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