Kerry Walk is an American academic administrator, teacher, and college president. She served as the fifth president of University of the Arts in Philadelphia from 2023 to 2024, and resigned three days before its closure. She was the president of

Marymount Manhattan College Marymount Manhattan College is a private college on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As of 2020, enrollment consisted of 1,571 undergraduate students with women making up 80.1% and men 19.9% of student enrollment. Columbia University Masters ...

from 2015 to 2023, having begun a process leading to Marymount Manhattan being absorbed into Northeastern University.

Career

Walk was director of the writing center

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, and held staff positions at

Pitzer College Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1963 as a women's college in the Claremont Colleges consortium and became coeducational in 1970. Pitzer enrolls approximately 1000 students. Pitzer off ...

. She served as provost at the

Otis College of Art and Design Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California, United States. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aero ...

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from 2011 to 2014, and interim President from 2014 to 2015. From 2015 to 2023, Walk was the president of

in New York City.

University of the Arts

In April 2023, Walk was appointed President of the University of the Arts, beginning her tenure in August 2023. Less than a year later, on May 31, 2024, President Walk announced the closing of UArts on June 7, 2024, with less than a week's notice. She announced her resignation shortly thereafter on June 4, 2024 after dodging questions from students and faculty.

References

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