New Trinity College President’s Goal: ‘Spread Education Outside of Its Walls’ - Higher Education

New Trinity College President’s Goal: ‘Spread Education Outside of Its Walls’ - Higher Education: Dr. Joanne Berger-Sweeney, an accomplished neuroscientist and the current dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, has been tapped as the next president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

Berger-Sweeney, who currently serves as chief officer for Tuft’s largest school, will be the first African-American and the first woman to hold the post at the private liberal arts college founded in 1823.

“I am thrilled and excited. I am scared and awestruck,” says Berger-Sweeney in an interview with Diverse. “I am humbled that the search committee and the board of trustees are instilling this incredible, beautiful, almost 200-year-old institution to my care.”