NEW HAVEN – The state Board of Regents for Higher Education named a new president for Southern Connecticut State University Thursday.
They unanimously voted to select Dr. Joe Bertolino as the university’s 12th president. A Board of Regents search committee recommended Bertolino from three finalist, after a 5-month long nationwide search.
Bertolino is currently the president of Lyndon State College in Vermont and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for System Integration and Related Efforts at the Vermont State Colleges.
He replaces Dr. Mary Papazian who resigned as of July 1. He will begin August 22 at an annual salary of $294,700.
“Dr. Bertolino greatly impressed the Committee and I am confident he will be a perfect complement to the great talent we have at Southern,” said Larry DeNardis, Chair of the Regents Search Committee in a statement released Thursday morning.
