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Joan Stewart, dean of the College of Liberal Arts since 1999, has been named the first female president of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., effective July 1.
Stewart replaces Eugene M. Tobin, who will step down from the Hamilton presidency after 10 years to become a senior advisor at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
“It’s been four wonderful years,” Stewart said. “This is a great university, and I’ve enjoyed working with the administration, the faculty and staff, and the students.
“This was not a question of leaving the University of South Carolina as much as it was a question of pursuing an absolutely wonderful opportunity.”
As dean of liberal arts, Stewart has provided oversight for 5,000 students, 295 faculty members, 16 departments, and eight interdisciplinary programs. She recently served on USC’s Strategic Directions and Initiatives Committee, which made sweeping recommendations for restructuring aspects of the University.
"Joan is one of the best deans that I have ever worked with," said Provost Odom. "She has done an incredible job in always encouraging her faculty to be better teachers, to be better researchers, and to be involved in outreach to the community. She is a very intelligent person and, at the same time, a very down-to-earth and warm individual."
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