Denise Battles ’85 tapped to lead SUNY Geneseo

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Colgate Alumna Denise A. Battles has been selected to lead SUNY Geneseo

Denise A. Battles ’85 has been selected to lead SUNY Geneseo.

A Colgate University alumna with more than 25 years of experience in higher education, Denise A. Battles ’85, will become the new leader of SUNY Geneseo starting in July, the State University of New York Board of Trustees announced today.

Battles, a Central Square, N.Y., native, is currently provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, according to a news release. Battles earned her bachelor’s degree in geology at Colgate, and a doctorate in geology from the University of California.

Read the full announcement here.