Colby College President Oversees Application Spike Amid Focus on Diversity

David Greene didn’t waste any time. He became president of Colby College July 1, 2014, and just six months later celebrated a 47% overall increase in applications for this year’s freshman class. Those numbers included a 70% boost in applicants from the West Coast and the South, as well as significant increases in the number of first-generation applicants and prospective students of color. What’s more, the crop of students was the strongest applicant pool on traditional measures like high school GPA and SAT scores that the small liberal arts college had ever seen.