ALBION, Mich. – Albion College on Friday, Feb. 23, announced the appointment of its 15th president, Dr. Donna M. Randall, who is currently the provost at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Randall is the first woman president in the college’s 172-year history. She succeeds Dr. Peter T. Mitchell, who is retiring in June after 10 years in the Albion presidency. Randall’s appointment will be effective July 1, 2007.
From 1984 to 1995 Randall was on the faculty of the Department of Management and Systems at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., serving as department chair from 1992 to 1995.
During that time, she also spent a year as a visiting professor at University College-Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. An accomplished scholar, she has written extensively about ethical decision-making in the professions and is a past editorial board member of the Journal of Business Ethics. Her other research interests include workplace safety issues and employee rights, organizational behavior, and work motivation.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Randall holds a B.A. in sociology from Drake University, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Washington State University, and an M.B.A., also from Washington State. She participated in the Institute for Educational Management for Senior Executive Leadership at Harvard University.
The full story is available at http://www.albion.edu/ac_news/releases2006-07/randallannouncement.asp.
