ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 25, 1996 TAG: 9604250076
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
Hollins College, which earlier this year began a search for a successor to President Maggie O'Brien, is now losing an administrator who was O'Brien's second in command.
Roger W. Bowen, vice president for academic affairs at Hollins, will resign this summer to take a job as president of the State University of New York at New Paltz, he said Wednesday night.
Although O'Brien and Bowen will be leaving Hollins about the same time, Bowen said the timing of their departures was coincidental.
"I've had four wonderful years at Hollins," he said. Bowen said he has worked to bring more diversity to the student body and faculty, and began a study abroad program in Ireland.
O'Brien announced in December she had accepted a position as president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, a public, coeducational, liberal arts college south of Annapolis. A search for her replacement began in January.
Bowen, who came to Hollins in 1992, has also been a professor of government at Colby College in Maine, where he ran its Colby-in-Cork and East Asian studies program. A 1969 graduate of Wabash College in Indiana, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
The State University of New York at New Paltz has about 7,600 students.
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