GETTYSBURG, PA - Janet Morgan Riggs '77 was unanimously appointed 14th president of Gettysburg College Friday, Feb. 6, by the College's Board of Trustees at their winter meeting today. Riggs, who has served as interim president since last March, becomes president effective immediately.
"We are all very excited to make this appointment," Board Chair James M. Weaver '64 said. "Dr. Riggs has excelled in a number of key administrative appointments, most recently interim president at Gettysburg, and we know that she will move full steam ahead in building campus-wide support for her vision. As an alumna who has also been a 20-year professor and a provost at Gettysburg, she deeply understands the lives of our students and faculty, who are the heart of our academic mission."
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