Sarah Mangelsdorf became President of University of Rochester in July 2019.
Sarah Mangelsdorf is known for her work on issues of academic quality, educational access, and diversity and inclusion at some of the nation’s leading public and private institutions. She has earned wide recognition for developing important strategic initiatives tailored to the goals of each institution and for taking a leading role in building both financial and institutional support for those goals.
Mangelsdorf served as chief operating officer at Wisconsin, where her responsibilities included oversight of all academic programs and budget planning for 12 schools and colleges, including Education, Business, Engineering, and Graduate Studies, as well as the Schools of Medicine and Public Health and of Nursing, which are affiliated with UW Health, the integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.