McDaniel College elects Kimberly Smith Charette to Board of Trustees

McDaniel College has named Kimberly Smith Charette to its board of trustees.

Charette of Wenham, Mass., is vice chair of the board of directors and senior partner of healthcare practice at Witt/Kieffer, a national executive search firm, based in the firm’s Boston office. She joined the firm after many years in senior leadership positions at several hospitals. She is active in the advancement of healthcare leadership, is a regular speaker at industry events and is board certified in healthcare management.

She received a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology from McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College in 1979 and has a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among “40 Colleges that Change Lives” and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel’s degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.