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Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
President, University of Rochester
Years in current role: 2
Mangelsdorf is the 11th president of the University of Rochester and the school’s first female president. She served as provost at the University of Wisconsin before taking the helm in Rochester in July 2019.
Mangelsdorf, who has also served as dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a professor of psychology whose research has focused on social and emotional development.
“As president I will be particularly attentive to these issues of equity and inclusion and I will do everything I can do to make sure that every student, faculty, and staff member at the University of Rochester feels welcomed and included,” Mangelsdorf said during her inauguration in October 2019.
Less than six months later, Mangelsdorf had to work with her leadership team to first address the issues of COVID-19 and then develop the university’s response to the social and racial unrest that developed in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota.
