SUNY Geneseo President, Denise A. Battles/Photo credit: Keith Walters.
President Denise A. Battles has been selected as the president-elect of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), an alliance of high quality, public liberal arts institutions.
Established in 1987 and now consisting of 30 colleges and universities in 28 states and one Canadian province, COPLAC represents a distinguished sector in higher education. SUNY Geneseo has been a member of COPLAC since 1994 and is New York State’s sole COPLAC member institution.
Battles has held other leadership positions in COPLAC, serving as a board member as well as a member of the organization’s Strategic Plan Committee. The governing board of COPLAC consists of the 30 presidents/chancellors or their designees. Battles will begin her two-year term as president in July 2018.