The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the search for the next President of Montserrat College of Art.

Position Announcement (click here)

Search Timeline

Spring 2009

• Helena Sturnick to Step Down
  
• Board of Trustees select SJG as search partner
  
• Search Committee Named
  
• Advisory Committee Formed
  
• Montserrat Community Input Solicited
  
• Search Launched, Week of May 11, 2009

Application Process
Online applications, including a position-specific cover letter and resume, are being accepted via the SJG website at www.spelmanandjohnson.com under the link Open Positions.

Summer 2009

• Initial Review of Applicants: Beginning Mid-June 2009
• Confidential Interview Phase: July 2009
  

Fall 2009

• Campus Interviews: September 2009
• Anticipated Closure: October/Late Fall 2009
• Anticipated Start Date: Late 2009/January 2010

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Search Committee

Chair: Lee Dellicker, Trustee

Vice Chair: Lecia Turcotte, Trustee

Hilly Ebling, Chair, Board of Trustees

Steve Dodge,Trustee

Sigrid Olsen '74, Trustee

Laura Tonelli, Dean of Faculty

Martha Buskirk, Professor, Liberal Arts (Art History)

Theresa Skelly, Advisory Committee Representative; Registrar

Shelley DeSimone, Director of Human Resources

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SJG—The Spelman & Johnson Group
www.spelmanandjohnson.com
Search Consultants:
Ellen T. Heffernan, Managing Partner
Valerie B. Szymkowicz, Senior Associate

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Advisory Committee Chairperson: Theresa Skelly, Registrar

Faculty: Charles Boyer, Professor, Liberal Arts (Writing and Literature) Judy Brown, Professor, Foundation, Painting and Drawing; Chair, Foundation Stacy Thomas-Vickory, Assistant Professor, Book Arts, Foundation, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking; Chair, Printmaking

Staff: Jeffrey Newell, Assistant Dean of Admissions Donna Musumeci, Executive Assistant to the President

President’s Cabinet: Brian Bicknell, Dean of Student Services Jo Broderick, Dean of College Relations and Special Assistant to the President Rick Longo, Dean of Admissions and Enrollment Management

Alumni and Students: Chelsea Sams ’08, Library Coordinator, Montserrat College of Art Robyn Flanders, Student, Class of 2011 Jordan Elquist, Student, Class of 2011

Board of Trustees: Charles “Chub” Whitten, Principal, Juniper Advisory Services, LLC Don Bowen, Principal, Meridian Associates, Inc. Henrietta Gates, Director of Business Development, BigBelly Solar

Community Representative: Bill Howard, President, Beverly Cooperative Bank

Human Resources Representative: Shelley DeSimone, Director of Human Resources

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The Boston Globe names Montserrat College of Art to
Globe 100’s Top Places to Work ‘08

Beverly, MA — November 9, 2008 – Montserrat College of Art has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the debut of an employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. The Globe 100’s Top Places to Work magazine was published in the Sunday Globe on November 9. Online, the report can be found at boston.com/business

Produced by the same team that compiles the 21-year-old Globe 100 report of the best-performing public companies in Massachusetts, the Top Places to Work recognizes the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity/inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility, and values and ethics. Private companies and nonprofits as well as publicly-held businesses were included in the analysis.

The rankings in the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work are based on survey information collected by Workplace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, from 1200,000 employees at about 600 Massachusetts organizations. This marks the first time that a Globe 100 report honors private as well as publicly-held organizations.

Montserrat College of Art was ranked 84th on the overall list and was also listed as 31st on the Top 40 Small Workplaces list.

President Helena J. Sturnick said, “We are extremely honored to be receiving this award. Montserrat College of Art is a wonderful, caring community not only for our students, but for the dedicated faculty and staff who work here. We are so pleased to be recognized in this way – and to be the only college on this list is amazing. This honor helps move us toward our vision, which is to be recognized as the nations’s premier independent small art college.”

The publisher of The Boston Globe Steve Ainsley stated, “All the companies included in the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work deserve a great deal of recognition. It’s clear that they value their employees and make it a priority to create a positive workplace.”

Montserrat College of Art is a private, residential college of visual art design offering the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, continuing education classes including pre-college courses, and a gallery featuring exhibitions and lectures by international, national and regional contemporary artists

To qualify for the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work, a company must have more than 100 employees in Massachusetts. Nearly 300 qualified companies accepted an invitation to participate. Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses.