Mayme Hostetter Named Twenty-Second President of Hamline University in Minnesota

Mayme Hostetter has been appointed as the twenty-second president of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She will assume her new role on July 1.

According to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent data, Hamline University enrolls about 1,700 undergraduate and 700 graduate students. Women represent about 64 percent of the undergraduate student body.

Currently, Dr. Hostetter serves as president of the Relay Graduate School of Education, an independent graduate school in New York City. Prior to her current role, she served as the managing director of teaching and learning for Teacher U at Hunter College in New York. Earlier, she conducted research in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before her career in academia, she spent several years teaching middle and high school English.

“I have always had great respect and admiration for Hamline’s role in the Twin Cities as an engine for socioeconomic mobility, and as a place that connects college to career,” said Dr. Hostetter. “Hamline also has an unbeatable longstanding commitment to inclusion and equity, which are values that are deeply important to me personally and professionally.”

Dr. Hostetter is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English language and literature and her master’s degree in education. She holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College at Columbia University.

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