Daily News | University of the Arts has a new president: Kerry Walk has led a New York City college for 8 years
Kerry Walk, president of Marymount Manhattan College, will become president of the University of the Arts on Aug. 1.One of Kerry Walk’s earliest experiences as a leader and artist can be traced to first grade.
“What I love about Philadelphia is that it is a world-class city, but small enough where everyone at a place like University of the Arts can make a difference, can have an impact,” said Walk, 62, who once worked for Harvard and Princeton and has spent the last eight years as president of Marymount. “That’s very, very exciting. It’s not as easy to do that in New York. It’s a much bigger place.”University of the Arts raises $67 million in its first capital campaign. Here’s how it’ll be used.
“What families are looking for quite rightly are outcomes, outcomes, outcomes,” she said. “What are our students doing when they graduate. If we can show families the outcomes of the education we provide, then that will drive up enrollment.” She previously served as provost and later, interim president of Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and associate dean of the faculty for academic administration at Pitzer College, also in California. For eight years, she served as director of the Princeton writing program and and spent the previous eight years in various positions at Harvard.
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