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Leadership at Sterling College

Everyone at Sterling College is dedicated to helping our students succeed and become stewards of the environment. Our leadership team fosters a framework that promotes honesty, trust, and integrity. We keep our students and our mission at the heart of everything we do.


Presidential Search Prospectus

The Sterling College community seeks as its next President a highly committed, mission, focused lover of the natural world to lead Sterling to its next level of financial security and student success through strategic vision, transparent leadership, resource development, and the passionate articulation of its mission. The full presidential prospectus can be reviewed here. Application deadline is 12/15/2022.


Interim President Lori Collins-Hall

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Board of Trustees

The College is also governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees. Through their work, the College is able to fulfill its mission of environmental stewardship and meet its aspirations for the future.

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Board of Advisors

The College has the benefit of a volunteer Board of Advisors. Through their contributions and advocacy, the College is able to enrich the expertise it has on hand and extends its reach with mission-aligned people doing good work in their communities.

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President’s Cabinet

The Cabinet meets weekly to discuss and advise the President on issues related to the current and future needs of the college. In particular, this council focuses on issues related to institutional planning, operational budget, risk management, and general college initiatives.


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Nicole Civita

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives

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Lori Collins-Hall

Interim President

Favor Ellis

Favor Ellis

Dean of Community

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Christina Goodwin ’02

Vice President for Advancement

Moxie Mehegan

Dean of Admission & Financial Aid

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Peter Merrill

Senior Advisor to the President

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Laura Spence

Dean of Academics & Faculty in Ecology

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Trustees Emeriti

David Behrend ’60
Susan C. Bryant
Marvin Brown, Alumni Parent ’85
Lewis Cohen
George J. Hill, M.D., D.Litt., Alumni Parent ’85
Jackson Kytle, Ph.D.
Peter Albert McKay, J.D. ’63
Virginia de Ganahl Russell
Mark Schroeder, Ph.D.

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Our President

Dr. Lori Collins-Hall Sterling College Interim President Sterling is a small college that thinks big and acts on its convictions. As the leading voice for ecological thinking and action, for…

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Sterling College uses education as a force to address critical ecological problems caused by unlimited growth and consumption that is destroying the planet as we have known it. Our mission is to advance ecological thinking and action through affordable experiential learning that prepares people to be knowledgeable, skilled, and responsible leaders in the communities in which they live.

Sterling acknowledges that the land on which we gather—places now known as Vermont and Kentucky—are the traditional and unceded territories of several indigenous peoples: the Abenaki in the North and the Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Osage people to the South. We also learn in-and-from a range of landscapes that belong to other indigenous peoples.

As we seek deep reciprocal relationships with nature, we respect and honor the place-based and cultural wisdom of indigenous ancestors and contemporaries. Words of acknowledgement and intention are just a first step. We must match them with acts of respect and repair.

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