Evan Dobelle

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Evan Samuel Dobelle, educator and politician, is President of the New England Board of Higher Education. Twelfth president of the University of Hawaii (2001-2004) and eighteenth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (1995-2001), he was president and chancellor of City College of San Francisco from 1991 and president of Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1987.

Elected mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1973 (at age 27, their youngest-ever mayor) and 1975, Dobelle was also Massachusetts State Commissioner of Environmental Management and Natural Resources. In the Carter administration, he was U.S. Chief of Protocol for the White House with rank of ambassador. (His wife Kit Dobelle served later as Chief of Protocol and as Chief of Staff to First Lady Rosalyn Carter.) He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, was National Chairman of the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee, and served on California Governor Ronald Reagan's commission for educational reform.

During Dobelle's tenure at Trinity, declining enrollments were reversed through neighborhood renewal.[1] At the University of Hawai'i, he backed unifying the system's campuses, establishing the Academy of Creative Media, building a new medical school, reforming financial and building practices, and strengthening Native Hawaiian programs.

A publicist of the economics of higher-education investment and the Creative Economy, Dobelle promotes public-private partnerships and the "College Ready" model that helps students graduate from high school and then from college.