GODDARD COLLEGE SELECTS PRESIDENT
PLAINFIELD -- Goddard College has ended its yearlong search for a president with the selection of Richard Greene, the former president of St. Thomas University in Miami.
Goddard's current president, Jackson Kytle, is leaving after four years.
As St. Thomas University president, Greene boosted enrollment by a third, doubled the, school's endowment and established a community outreach project in ecology that won the "Renew America" national environmental achievement award.
Greene holds a doctorate from Boston University and has studied at Harvard University, Clark University, and Massachusetts State College in Worcester, Mass.
Greene described himself as a "pragmatic realist" who believe, that the best learning happens when "knowledge and action operate together." In accepting his post he said, "I have long admired the college's national academic reputation for innovation and commitment to progressive education."
A Haverhill, Mass., native, Greene said moving to Vermont will help him get back to his small town roots.
Goddard was founded in 1938 and has 120 undergraduate students.
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