Trustees, donors and friends of Millsaps College gathered recently at the Mississippi Museum of Art to celebrate the success of the college’s 2012 strategic plan, “Across the Street and Around the Globe: Partnerships and Influence at Millsaps College,” and to also bid a fond farewell to college president Rob Pearigen and his wife Phoebe.
At the start of his tenure, Pearigen led the development of an aggressive strategic plan designed to address current and future challenges before the college. The final plan focused on achieving standards of measurable excellence in all programs, strengthening opportunities for students to experience enhanced local and global studies, developing new and improved facilities across campus, promoting the college’s ethical heritage and church relations, expanding and diversifying the student body, and increasing the financial strength of the college.
Pearigen, the 11th president, officially stepped down at the end of May to assume the role of vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn.
Pearigen has served as president of Millsaps since July 2010.
