MBCNews - Mary Baldwin Chooses Dean of Adult and Graduate Studies

Mary Baldwin Chooses Dean of Adult and Graduate Studies

2003-05-21

Nancy Krippel has been named dean of adult and graduate studies at Mary Baldwin College. The new position is a successor to that held by Kathleen Stinehart, dean of academic outreach, who is retiring after nine years and will soon be opening Cranberry's, a natural-food store and café in downtown Staunton.

Krippel is associate provost and director of graduate studies at Longwood University in Farmville. She also serves as executive director of the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center in South Boston. She earned a B.A. in English and secondary education from Barat College of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois, (now a part of Chicago-based DePaul University) and a M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Loyola University of Chicago. Barat College, when Krippel attended it, was a small private women's college. She returned and became its dean for academic affairs.

"We're just delighted that Nancy Krippel is going to be joining the administration of Mary Baldwin College next year," said Jeffrey L. Buller, dean of the college. "Her credentials immediately stood out from all the others that we received. And once we met her, everyone who spoke to her agreed that she was the perfect person for the position. Her experience with adult students combined with her intimate knowledge of graduate programs made her a remarkable fit for us. Plus, she is dynamic, has a wonderful sense of humor, relates extraordinarily well to all kinds of people, and has some excellent ideas for the future."

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