When current Keene State College President Helen Giles-Gee and Provost Mel Netzhammer announced earlier this spring that they would be leaving the College to pursue new professional opportunities, the University System of New Hampshire Board and the Keene State College community immediately took steps to fill those critical leadership positions.

Jay Kahn, current vice president for Finance and Planning, will serve as president for a one-year term, and Melinda Treadwell, current dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, will take over as provost for a two-year term. They will assume their new roles in July 2012 when the positions are vacated. Read more. …

To fill the vacancies that drs. Kahn and Treadwell will leave, the College has selected Karen House, current KSC associate vice president for Finance and Planning, to serve as vice president for Finance and Planning for a one-year term and Wayne Hartz, current associate professor for Safety and Occupational Health Applied Sciences to step into the role of interim dean of Professional and Graduate Studies. Read more. …

KSC has also chosen Dr. Andrew Harris as its new dean of Arts and Humanities. That position became open when Dr. Nona Fienberg decided to step down as dean to focus on her work in the newly formed Holocaust and Genocide Studies department. Dr. Harris will begin his work here on August 1st. Read more about Dr. Harris. …