The Journey Begins radio for the engaged parent and dedicated educator presents a three part discussion on the historical role and contributions of women only colleges and universities with three remarkable Presidents of these amazing institutions. Part two of this extraordinary conversation is with Dr. Dianne Lynch President of Stephens College located in Columbia, Missouri.
Dianne Lynch, Ph.D., became the 24th president of Stephens College on June 2, 2009. Founded in 1833, Stephens is the second-oldest women’s college in the nation. Dr. Lynch previously served as dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College (in Ithaca, New York), a school of approximately 1,400 students and 60 full-time faculty.
She is a former Fulbright Senior Specialist in new media technologies and learning; a member of the national accrediting council for schools of journalism and mass communication; and a member of the national Journalism Advisory Council of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Prior to becoming dean at Ithaca College in 2004, Dr. Lynch was a faculty member and chair of the Department of Journalism at Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont, a private liberal arts college of approximately 1,800 students. In that capacity, she won local, regional and national awards for teaching, including recognition in 1999 as the national Journalism Teacher of the Year. Dr. Lynch was the founding executive director of the national Online News Association. In that capacity, she was the editorial director of the first national study of the credibility of online news. She wrote a biweekly column about women and technology, “Wired Women,” for ABCNews.com from 2000 to 2003, and a weekly column on new media ethics for the Christian Science Monitor from 1998 to 2002.
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