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Dr. Lorraine Sterritt On Being The First Female President Of Saint Michael's College

Dr. Lorraine Sterritt at the VPR studios
Bayla Metzger / VPR
Dr. Lorraine Sterritt is the first female president of Saint Michael's College.

As of July, Saint Michael's College in Colchester has a new president: Dr. Lorraine Sterritt. She is the first woman to serve in that position in the school's history. 

"I think it's really important that women be represented in leadership roles," Sterritt told VPR. "I do believe that both men and women make great leaders. That said, it’s very important that our students, our female students, see women in the top roles. Not just in education but across the board in professions and in organizations.”

Listen to the VPR interview with Sterritt above.

According to Sterritt, Saint Michael's College has about 1,650 undergraduate students and approximately 250 graduate and international students. She said around 50 percent of the student body is Catholic.

Sterritt, who is the college's 17th president, also spoke with VPR about the rising costs of higher education, campus sexual assault and the role of faith on the college campus.

Previously Sterritt was president of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and also served as dean for administration at Harvard College. She's also held positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University.

Disclosure: Saint Michael's College is a VPR underwriter.

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
Bayla joined VPR in 2018 as the producer for Morning Edition. She left in 2019.
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