Widener University President Stepping Down Next Summer to Work at Penn

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Widener University president Julie E. Wollman
Image via Ed Hille, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Widener University president Julie E. Wollman

The president of Widener University in Chester is retiring next June after six years with the university, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Julie E. Wollman, 61, of Philadelphia will join the University of Pennsylvania where she will help prepare future college leaders.

 “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as Widener’s president,” Wollman said in a statement. “Student success has been at the heart of every decision and effort I have made at Widener.”

Wollman will be a professor of practice in higher education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

Wollman has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a master’s from University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from New York University.

University of Pennsylvania has educated 60 future college presidents or chancellors in the last 20 years.

Wollman started the Common Ground Initiative at Widener. It encourages respectful dialogue among people with different views to reduce polarization.

She appointed the university’s first full-time diversity officer. She also offered reduced tuition to Chester employees.

She teaches inmates at the State Correctional Institution in Chester.

Wollman launched or planned programs in occupational therapy, for physician assistants, speech language pathology and nutrition.

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about the president of Widener University.

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