After a nearly year-long search, Nichols College in Dudley has selected as its seventh president, Susan West Engelkemeyer.
Engelkemeyer, who is currently dean of the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, will be the college’s second female president.
She will replace Debra M. Townsley, who left Nichols in 2010 after 12 years as president. Gerald Fels, former CEO of Commerce Insurance in Webster, has served as interim president since July 2010.
Engelkemeyer has also served as dean of the business school at Ithaca College in New York and as a faculty member at Babson College in Wellesley.
She holds a doctorate in industrial management from Clemson University in South Carolina, a master’s from East Carolina University and a bachelor’s from Stephens College in Missouri.
She take her new post at Nichols on Aug. 1.
