Brooklyn native Wendy Libby is first woman president of Florida’s Stetson University
Sunshine Connections
In 2008, Brooklyn native Dr. Wendy Libby was comfortable in her job as President of Stephens College, the second oldest women’s institute in America. Dr. Libby had spent five years both financially and academically transforming the college into a success story at a time when the school had been running a deficit and needed a rescue.
At the same time, Stetson University in Florida had become financially stable under retiring President Dr. Douglas Lee, but, as Lee himself said, the institution needed someone like Libby to take the university to its next level of growth.