MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Middlebury College has named a new president.
The school’s board of trustees on Tuesday appointed Ian Baucom to fill the post of Laurie Patton, who announced in May she would step down to become president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences after nearly a decade at the college.
Baucom, who serves as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, will take office in July.
The college says Baucom, a professor of English, is widely regarded as a leader in higher education who has long championed the role of colleges and universities as civic institutions and that he has empowered teaching, research, and learning to engage the urgent challenges of our time by building partnerships across a broad spectrum of disciplines.