Board of Directors

Sara Varhus

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nazareth College

Sara Varhus has been Vice President for Academic Affairs at Nazareth College since January, 2007. Prior to that, she was for ten years Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY at Oswego, where she also served as Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. She received her B.A. at Rockford College and her PH.D., at the University of Rochester. She also participated in the HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College and the Harvard Institute for Educational Management. She has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary curricular projects, one of which was sponsored FIPSE, and one of which was part of the Integrative Learning Project, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and AAC&U. She has been editor of the Forum for Honors, the refereed journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and she served on the Executive Board of that organization. For the Council for Colleges of Arts and Sciences, she chaired the Committee on Comprehensive Institutions, and twice served as a Facilitator for the New Deans Seminar. She has presented frequently at meetings of NCHC, CCAS, AAC&U, and AAHE, and she has been a consultant to honors programs and interdisciplinary projects. She has written and presented scholarly essays on Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature.