Paul LeBlanc, president and CEO of Southern New Hampshire College, mentioned Wednesday he plans to step down in June after greater than twenty years within the position.
LeBlanc is credited with remodeling Southern New Hampshire from a small regional faculty with just some thousand college students to an internet behemoth with over 160,000 college students final fall. LeBlanc has additionally helped perform an initiative to decrease in-person tuition costs.
“It has been the respect of a lifetime to be the president of SNHU for the previous 20 years,” LeBlanc mentioned in an announcement Wednesday. “I’m so pleased with the work we’ve got been in a position to do collectively to assist increase entry to training and remodel the lives of our learners.”
Lisa Marsh Ryerson, who has been Southern New Hampshire’s provost since final yr, will step into the presidency for a two-year time period starting in July. Ryerson beforehand served as president of the AARP Basis for eight years. Earlier than that, she was president of Wells Faculty, in New York, for 18 years.
“Paul’s legacy is one in all daring imaginative and prescient and generosity of spirit,” Ryerson mentioned in an announcement. “Over the following six months, he and I’ll work collectively on a transition plan that honors the work of our folks and prioritizes the expertise of our learners.”
After he steps down, LeBlanc plans to write down about AI’s influence on training and the workforce throughout a yearlong sabbatical.
