The region is in the midst of a changing of the guard among higher education leaders.
Since 2019, five new college administrators have taken the helm of their respective schools in the Ocean State.
UMass Dartmouth is expected to name a new chancellor soon. And Wheaton College President Dennis M. Hanno has announced he’ll be leaving the school this year.
The changes are coming at a challenging time for many local schools still dealing with the financial and health effects of the pandemic.
What better time to meet this new wave of leaders, see what motivates them and what their post-pandemic plans are for their respective institutions?
This week’s cover story on Providence College’s president, the Rev. Kenneth R. Sicard, is the first in a planned series of interviews with these new administrators.
Sicard spent six years working at Fleet Financial Group before becoming a Dominican priest and eventually returning to his alma mater and becoming president last summer.
The school, he says, “want[s] more national recognition” and has a plan to get it.