New Lehigh University president is himself a Mountain Hawk
Updated Apr 26, 2021;
Posted Apr 26, 2021
Dartmouth College Provost Joseph J. Helbe will become Lehigh University s fifteenth president Aug. 16, 2021.Courtesy Lehigh University
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A Lehigh University alumnus and the current provost of Darmouth College has been named as Lehigh’s fifteenth president.
Joseph J. Helbe will succeed John D. Simon as president of the South Bethlehem university starting Aug. 16, Lehigh’s Board of Trustees announced Monday.
Helbe graduated from Lehigh in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He was selected after a global search process that bean last fall, when Simon announced he would step down June 30. Lehigh’s Nathan Urban, who is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, will serve as interim president.
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Provost Joseph Helble will become president of his alma mater, Lehigh University, on Aug. 16. (Photo by Robert Gill)
by Susan Boutwell, Dartmouth Joseph Helble, a recognized leader in the field of engineering who has served Dartmouth as provost since 2018, was today named the 15th president of Lehigh University.
He begins work at the Bethlehem, Pa., university his alma mater on August 16. He will continue to serve as Dartmouth s provost through the academic year.
Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon 77 will soon appoint an interim provost, and over the next few weeks he will name a search committee to conduct a nationwide search for the next provost.
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