By Tristan Weisenbach
Editor-in-Chief
Margo DelliCarpini will be the College’s next provost and vice president of academic affairs beginning on July 1, according to an email sent to the campus community from President Michael Bernstein.
Feedback from the campus community after DelliCarpini’s campus visit earlier this month was “extremely positive,” the email said.
“I am thrilled and honored to be joining TCNJ as the next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and look forward to working with President Bernstein and the campus community,” DelliCarpini said in a statement provided to The Signal. “The mission of TCNJ is aligned with my own professional values and commitment to public higher education that truly transforms lives and values access, affordability and excellence.”
DelliCarpini will be leaving her position as vice president for commonwealth campuses and executive chancellor at Pennsylvania State University, which she began in 2023. Previously, she was Penn State Abington’s chancellor and a professor of linguistics, beginning in 2021.
She departs Penn State at a time when the university is exploring the possible closure of a number of its commonwealth campuses. In a Feb. 25 message, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi announced that the university had “exhausted reasonable alternatives to maintain the current number of campuses.”
In the message, Bendapudi said that she was appointing three administration officials, including DelliCarpini, to co-lead a group that would produce final recommendations on the “future composition of the Commonwealth Campus ecosystem.” Penn State currently operates 20 commonwealth campuses.
At the College, DelliCarpini will be taking over the role of departing Interim Provost Suzanne McCotter, who has accepted the position of dean of graduate programs at Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan, New York.
