Pending approval from the Florida Board of Governors from Mar. 21-22, current dean of faculty and vice president of academic affairs of Mount Holyoke College Donal O'Shea will be named the next president of New College. The New College Board of Trustees unanimously approved O'Shea's candidacy at their meeting on Mar. 10.
O’Shea, a first-generation college student and mathematician, earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Queen’s College in Canada. He has worked at Mt. Holyoke for a large portion of his professional life, beginning his professorship there in 1980 and becoming the Provost in 1998.