Worcester Polytechnic Institute has hired Christopher Ritter as vice president for marketing and communications.
Ritter will lead a 20-member marketing and public relations division and will help shape the PR component of the university’s capital campaign.
Ritter has more than three decades of marketing and communications experience, most recently as chief marketing and communications officer for Binghamton University in New York. He was also the first director of university marketing at Clarkson University.
Before moving into the higher education field, Ritter spent 19 years at Syracuse, N.Y. marketing firm Eric Mower and Associates. Inc.
