College President's Perspective on Crisis Leadership

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According to University Business, "Tim Hall has helped transform New York's »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË College and kept it strong through the pandemic."

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"Tim Hall arrived at New York’s »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË College in 2014, a Southerner ready to take on new challenges in a vastly different place from his previous home at Austin Peay University in Tennessee.

Right away, he got them.

Hall took over as president at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË 'just in time to catch the wave of declining enrollment.' Prior to that, the college had raised admission requirements, which cut the freshman class by a third. For the next six years, Hall would have to fight through those currents to make the changes that ultimately would uplift »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË.

Under Hall’s leadership, »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË improved freshmen retention by almost 10 percent. It created new academic initiatives, rebuilt infrastructure at its campuses in Dobbs Ferry, Manhattan and the Bronx and agreed to buy out a struggling College of New Rochelle and take in 1,800 students.

There seemed to be no stopping Hall and »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË from its goal of serving and providing opportunities for all students – mainly commuters, mostly minorities and largely lower-income.

And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit … and hit »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË hard."

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