Sweet Briar College names new president

Sweet Briar College has picked a new president, college officials announced this morning.
Jo Ellen Johnson Parker replaces Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, who is retiring after 13 years at the school situated in Amherst County.
“Dr. Parker received a unanimous recommendation from the presidential search committee, an equally enthusiastic endorsement of the board of directors and widespread, strong support from the campus community,” Virginia Collier, chair of the college’s board, said in a statement. “We are delighted to find a new president who will bring vision and creativity to her work at Sweet Briar and is well prepared to lead the college to the next level of excellence.”
Since 2004, Parker has been executive director of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, a nonprofit group ““advancing liberal education in the digital age.”