President The Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees and campus community invite nominations and applicationsfor the position of the College's 17 th President. The next president will be a steady, disciplined and determined leader who isgenuinely drawn to Etown, committed to its founding values and to the ethos of Educate for Service, and eager to build upon a distinctiveposition of institutional strength and marketplace momentum. Elizabethtown College, founded in 1899 by members of the Church of theBrethren, is a private, residential college located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 90 minutes from Philadelphia and Baltimore and lessthan three hours from New York City and Washington, D.C. The College's 204-acre campus is home to approximately 2,102 undergraduate studentsand 415 graduate students enrolled across six academic schools offering more than 150 majors, minors and concentrations, 30 master's andgraduate certificate programs and two doctoral programs. With an average class size of 19 and a 16:1 student-to-faculty ratio, Etowncombines a strong liberal arts foundation with strengths in engineering, business, the health sciences and public service, and it fields 25NCAA Division III varsity athletic teams. The College enters this leadership transition from a position of strength,including: Incoming classes have grown in four of the last five years and exceeded projected goals in each of the pastfive; Over $36 million of the $40 million Build Brighter Futures scholarship campaign has been raised to date; and StrategicPlan 2030, a five-year roadmap built around the mantra "Educating for Impact," launches this fall. The next President of Etownwill be an exceptional communicator and a disciplined listener - visible, accessible, warm and unpretentious - a servant leader prepared tobe an engaged and visible participant in the civic and economic life of Elizabethtown and Lancaster County. The ideal candidate willarticulate a genuine alignment with the College's core values and the ethos of Educate for Service as a lived institutional practice ratherthan a statement of aspiration; bring the financial acumen necessary to lead a tuition-dependent private institution; demonstrate a recordof success with external resource development; bring an advanced degree and a record of higher education leadership that establishesimmediate credibility with faculty and staff; and the commitment to work in genuine partnership with an engaged governing board. AGBSearch is partnering with the Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees and campus community in this search. The full Leadership Profile canbe found on the AGB Search website or at www.etown.edu/presidential-search/ . Additional information about Elizabethtown Collegecan be found at www.etown.edu . To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by Thursday, November 12, 2026, and must include: A letter of interest addressing the strategic opportunities andqualifications identified in the profile. A current curriculum vitae. A list of five professional references with emailaddresses and telephone numbers, including their relationship to the candidate. References will not be contacted without prior authorizationfrom the candidate. Elizabethtown College is being assisted by AGB Search. Application materials should be submitted throughthe AGB Search portal system here: Elizabethtown Presidential Search Portal ( http://bit.ly/3SV1Cj5 ). Please direct nominations and expressions of interest or any questionsregarding the application process to Jennifer Ferrera at EtownPresident@agbsearch.
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Melissa K. Trotta, Ed. D. Associate Managing Principal melissa.trotta@agbsearch.com (202) 380-8927 Matthew J.Kilcoyne Principal matt.kilcoyne@agbsearch.com (202) 253-9846 Elizabethtown College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration foremployment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protectedveteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.