Quinnipiac University Names New President

Quinnipiac University has named a dean at Penn State its 10th president. Marie Hardin, who currently serves as dean of The Pennsylvania State University’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, will take over as president of the Hamden-based private college on July 1, the school announced. She will replace President Judy Olian, who announced in August that she would be leaving Quinnipiac at the end of the current academic year. Olian led the school for seven years.