Earlham College names next president
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Earlham College announced Wednesday that Paul Sniegowski will serve as its 21st president. Sniegowski, a graduate of Indiana University, currently serves as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sniegowski will succeed Anne Houtman, who is retiring at the end of the current academic year after five years in the role. She is also the first woman to lead the Richmond campus.
“Paul has been impressive and thoughtful in his excellent career as a faculty member specializing in evolutionary genetics and as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania,” Earlham Board Chair Tom Thornburg said in a news release. “He is a strong researcher, a frequently honored teacher, and much appreciated academic leader. His work as a faculty member and leader resonates with Earlham’s mission and Principles and Practices.”
In his current role at Penn, Sniegowski was responsible for launching new minors in environmental humanities and data science. He also helped establish the Penn First Plus Office and launched a student advisory board to support first-generation, low-income students.
A native of Indiana, Sniegowski earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the IU Jacobs School of Music, as well as a master’s degree in biology from IU. He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago.
“Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. It is a place that brings together a diversity of people to explore ideas, to learn to think and to go out and contribute to the world for good,” Sniegowski said. “Serving that ideal, and serving Earlham’s students and faculty, is why I am so excited to become part of the community.”
Sniegowski will begin his tenure as Earlham’s new president on Aug. 1.