Ripon College has announced that Victoria Folse will be the 14th president of Ripon College and the first woman to be formally inaugurated as president of Ripon College in its 170-year history. She will succeed Zach Messitte, who announced in September 2021 that he was resigning from Ripon College. Current interim President Andrea Young, meanwhile, has been appointed as the next vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at DePauw University in Indiana. Folse currently serves as the director and professor of the School of Nursing at Illinois Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Bloomington, Illinois.
