SCUP Planning Institute

Step I:
Foundations of Planning Within the Context of Higher Education

March 1, 2008, Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)

Registration is now closed.

Registration deadline was February 15, On-site registration will not be available.

Faculty

Margaret F. Plympton
Vice President for Finance and Administration

Margaret (Peggy) joined Lehigh as the Vice President for Finance and Administration in February 2001. In this role, she has responsibility for the financial systems of this $350 million operating budget, as well as facilities operations and planning, auxiliary services, etc. Prior to coming to Lehigh, Peggy held the same position at Bucknell University with many of the same areas of oversight. Her previous position was Executive Director for Student Support Services in the Office of the Vice President for Finance and Administration at Yale University, with responsibility for Dining Services and the facilities aspects of the residential colleges there, as well as a variety of systems implementation assignments and other special projects.

Her earlier positions have included serving as Vice President for Information Technology and Associate Treasurer at Wellesley College, and Assistant Dean for Financial Operations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Peggy currently serves as Past President of the Eastern Association of College & University Business Officers, and on the Board of the National Association of College & University Business Officers, EDUCAUSE, the Manufacturers Resource Center, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Centennial School, ArtsQuest, and the Allentown Art Museum, and on the Steering Committee of InCommon.

Peggy received her BA from Wellesley in Latin and her MBA from Boston University with a concentration in Public Management and Finance.

Hannah Stewart–Gambino, dean of the College Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College. In this role, she has responsibility for the academic experience of students, broadly defined. Reporting to her are three associate deans, study abroad, teaching and learning, and the academic resource center. Prior to coming to Lafayette College, she was an assistant professor, associate professor and full professor at Lehigh University. At Lehigh, she served in a variety of capacities including associate dean for Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, founding director of Global Citizenship, founding director of Community Fellows (a cross-disciplinary Masters program incorporating community-based year-long placements), co–chair of the Middle States Compliance committee, faculty chair of a task force to create and propose a new Faculty Senate, faculty chair of a task force to create a new President? Council on Women, among other committee assignments. Prior to Lehigh, Stewart–Gambino was an assistant professor at Eckerd College, where she also served as department chair for one year.

Stewart-Gambino is the (co)author of two books and co–editor of two books, as well as a number of peer-reviewed articles. She has served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies, as well as a member of the Latin American Studies Association.

Stewart-Gambino received her BA from Converse College in Political Science and Religious Studies, and her masters and doctorate from Duke University in Political Science with concentrations in Comparative Politics, Political Theory and Latin American Studies.