George Bridges, the current president of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, has been selected as the next president of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dr. Bridges received his master’s in criminology (1973) and his doctorate (1979) in sociology from Penn. He is slated to start at Evergreen on October 1.

Mark C. Reed, who recently served as senior vice president for administration and chief of staff at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, became president of St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 1. He received his doctorate in higher education management from Penn in 2008. At age 40, Dr. Reed will be the university’s youngest president since at least 1927.