From Austin-Douglas Travis, the dean and president of the Seminary of the Southwest, will retire May 31, and Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, the seminary’s academic dean, will succeed him, officials at the Episcopal institution in Austin announced Monday.
Kittredge, 55, will become the seminary’s eighth dean and president. She has been a faculty member since 1999 and academic dean since 2010. Her appointment was announced by the Rt. Rev. Dena Harrison, chair of the seminary’s board and bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
Travis, 59, who has headed the seminary since 2007, expressed satisfaction at presiding during a time of robust growth in enrollment and financial support. The seminary raised $12.6 million through its capital campaign, most of which goes to endow faculty chairs, Travis said.
The bottom line is I accomplished what I came here to do, and I’m ready to move on to other things,” Travis said, adding that he planned to pursue a variety of interests.
The Seminary of the Southwest celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2012. Enrollment grew from 81 students in 2008 to 135 in 2011, the largest in the history of the institution, according to Nancy Springer-Baldwin, the seminary’s vice president for communications.
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