ROSEBURG, Ore. — Umpqua Community College has named Debra Thatcher as its new president, filling a post that had been handled on an interim basis since Joe Olson retired last summer.
Thatcher comes from New York, where she spent two years as president of SUNY-Cobleskill before becoming a research fellow at that school. She’s been offered a salary of $173,000 and is expected to start in July.
Umpqua has had two interim presidents since Olson retired. Rita Cavin was president during last fall’s school shooting, when a 26-year-old gunman fatally shot nine people before killing himself.
She left in January and was replaced by Walter Nolte.
