According to University Business, "Tim Hall has helped transform New York's Mercy College and kept it strong through the pandemic."
The article continues:
"Tim Hall arrived at New York’s Mercy College in 2014, a Southerner ready to take on new challenges in a vastly different place from his previous home at Austin Peay University in Tennessee.
Right away, he got them.
Hall took over as president at Mercy 'just in time to catch the wave of declining enrollment.' Prior to that, the college had raised admission requirements, which cut the freshman class by a third. For the next six years, Hall would have to fight through those currents to make the changes that ultimately would uplift Mercy.
Under Hall’s leadership, Mercy improved freshmen retention by almost 10 percent. It created new academic initiatives, rebuilt infrastructure at its campuses in Dobbs Ferry, Manhattan and the Bronx and agreed to buy out a struggling College of New Rochelle and take in 1,800 students.
There seemed to be no stopping Hall and Mercy from its goal of serving and providing opportunities for all students – mainly commuters, mostly minorities and largely lower-income.
And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit … and hit Mercy hard."
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