Feb. 28 — On January 20th, 2025, President Wingenbach announced he will be leaving Hampshire College at the end of the spring semester.
Per a memo from chair of Hampshire’s Board of Trustees, José Fuentes, 05F, a presidential search committee will be convened with representatives from students, staff, and faculty, to search for and hire Hampshire College’s next president.
While the committee is searching, Jennifer Chrisler, current VP for Institutional Support, will serve as interrim president of the college.
President Wingenbach was hired as Hampshire’s president in 2019, following former president Miriam Nelson’s resignation during the 2019 financial crisis. Wingenbach is leaving Hampshire to serve as the President of the American College of Greece, a combination college, graduate business school, and high school in Athens, Greece, founded in 1875. Per the American College of Greece, Wingenbach “look[s] forward to working with the campus and the external community to advance ACG’s leadership in international education, advance new responses to global problems, and contribute to the vitality of Greece in the years ahead.”
In Wingenbach’s resignation letter, he re-affirmed that “Our mission—to transform education and, in doing so, to change the world—is as vital as ever,” and expressed trust that the college is in good hands, both with Jennifer Chrisler as interim president and the presidential search committee’s efforts to find a new president.
REVIEWED BY: Ryan Nivus, Axen Wetzel, Verne Gulley
