Pamela Balch is the 18th president of
West Virginia Wesleyan College in
Buckhannon
Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in, and the county seat of, Upshur County, West Virginia, Upshur County, West Virginia, United States, and is located along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,299 at the 2020 United States Census ...
,
West Virginia. Balch is a 1971 graduate of
West Virginia Wesleyan College,
and was the unanimous choice as the eighteenth president of the college by the Board of Trustees.
Balch has spent 28 years in higher education and came to Wesleyan after serving as president of
Mayville State University,
North Dakota.
Prior to Mayville, the
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, native was the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at
Bethany College in West Virginia, Vice Provost for Academic Planning at
California State University, Chico, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at
San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus.
She served as the director of Wesleyan’s graduate programs in education from 1985–88 and was a member of the education faculty at the college from 1978-88. Her professional career began as a public school teacher in
West Virginia.
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People from Buckhannon, West Virginia
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