S. Georgia Nugent

S. Georgia Nugent is Kenyon College's eighteenth president and the first woman in Kenyon's history to hold this position. Previous to her appointment, Nugent served as Princeton University's dean for the Harold McGraw Jr. Center for Teaching and Learning. Nugent graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1973, a member of the university's first coeducational class. (That same year, Kenyon graduated its first class of women.) Nugent later became the first female graduate of Princeton to hold a full-time faculty appointment there.Nugent earned a Ph.D. in classics from Cornell University and began her teaching career as an instructor at Swarthmore College before returning to Princeton as an assistant professor in 1979. In 1985, she moved to the classics department at Brown University, where she was appointed associate professor. Seven years later, she again answered the call of her alma mater, becoming assistant to the president and later, associate provost. Nugent became dean of the McGraw Center in 2001. In this capacity, she worked with a variety of programs and services for faculty and students to enhance teaching and learning at Princeton.