Bryn Mawr College

The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association is honored to introduce you to President Jane Dammen McAuliffe through a series of receptions across the country with alumnae/i, featuring remarks by President McAuliffe and student-faculty panels

Jane Dammen McAuliffe took office on July 1, 2008 as the eighth president of Bryn Mawr College, succeeding Nancy J. Vickers. McAuliffe's appointment was ratified by the College's Board of Trustees in February, 2008 . Her accession to the presidency was celebrated with a series of events culminating in an inauguration ceremony in October, 2008.

President McAuliffe comes to Bryn Mawr from Georgetown University, where she was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In that role, she enhanced faculty recruitment and diversity, developed initiatives to foster more effective teaching and student advising, and expanded the number of undergraduate majors and minors in contemporary fields of inquiry. She has also built several graduate programs, including two new Ph.D. programs, and successfully raised funds to build a performing arts center, to endow faculty positions, to create scholarships and to launch a science center.