MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Middlebury College’s president will step down next year after a decade of service.
The school announced Thursday that Laurie Patton will step down from her post in January to become president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
“Middlebury is a community I love and admire, and it has become home. Even more, it has taught me a great deal about the work of our democracy and the common good. It seemed right for me to continue that work at a national level with the scholars, artists, writers, lawmakers, and businesspeople who are thought leaders in the Academy and the world,” Patton said in a statement Thursday.
Patton in 2015 became Middlebury’s 17th president — and the first woman to hold the job — since the school’s founding in 1800.