According to University Business, "Tim Hall has helped transform New York's ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College and kept it strong through the pandemic."
The article continues:
"Tim Hall arrived at New York’s ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ '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 ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ.
Under Hall’s leadership, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ hard."
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