Vassar President to Join Consulting and Research Group

Catharine Bond Hill, president of Vassar College, is stepping down earlier than expected to join the nonprofit consulting and research firm Ithaka S+R, the college said on Wednesday. Hill will become Ithaka S+R's managing director. Hill announced her resignation from Vassar in March, originally saying she would step down in June 2017. Her new final day is president is now Aug. 15, and she will join Ithaka S+R on Sept. 6. At Ithaka S+R, she will replace current managing director Deanna Marcum, who said in Wednesday's announcement that she is "not going away" but that she wished to cut down on her weekly commute from Washington, D.C., to New York.