Effective January 1 2024, Elizabeth Mauch was appointed to serve as Chancellor by the Board of Trustees.
Elizabeth Mauch recently began serving as the seventh Chancellor of Vermont State Colleges System.
Dr. Mauch served as the fifteenth president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. She had previously served Bethany as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College. Under her leadership, Bethany College implemented a collaborative strategic plan, campus master plan and a vision to lead the college through 2026. During her tenure, she has led the college in raising $35 million for building renovations, strategic programming, and a cohesive brand campaign designed to increase enrollment. Mauch was a member of the Executive Committee of the Presidents’ Council of the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Council (KCAC) and was a board member of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery. In May and June 2019, Dr. Mauch served as a Fulbright Specialist in Poland. She taught and collaborated with science and engineering faculty at Łódź University of Technology in Łódź, Poland on the topic of flipped classrooms.
Previously, she served as Dean of the College of Education at Bloomsburg University from 2009-2017. She led the college to the largest university gift at the time from Mrs. Susan McDowell to launch the McDowell Institute for Teacher Excellence in Positive Behavior Support. In addition, she launched the Regional STEM Education Center in collaboration with faculty, regional school districts, and business leaders. She also served as a professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University.
Dr. Mauch received her masters and Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University and her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Moravian College where she also completed the requirements necessary to receive her Instructional I Teaching Certificate from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr. Mauch completed the Institute for Management and Leadership Education at Harvard University. She received the Benigna Education Award from Moravian in recognition of her service to higher education.