Leslie Hitch, Ed.D.

Dr. Hitch has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 2018. She is often a member of a New England Commission for Higher Education (NECHE) team evaluating foreign universities for NECHE accreditation. In that capacity she has been to Vietnam, Rwanda, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. She was Teaching Faculty at William James College and Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University as well as Visiting Fellow at Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia where she designed curriculum and taught in masters and doctoral programs in Leadership, Global Studies, and Higher Education Administration and for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In addition to her faculty position in Australia, she has extensive teaching experience internationally in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Her higher education administrative experience includes Director of Academic Technology Services at Northeastern University; Vice President, Harcourt, Inc.; Program Director at Simmons University; and director of executive education at Babson College. She, and her co-author Shreshthi Mehta, received second prize in the Ivey-Publishing/Indian Business School Global Case Writing competition in 2015 and an honorable mention in 2017. She is a member of the Board for the Center for Independent Documentary. She holds a B.A. and MBA from Simmons University; Certificate, Management and Leadership in Education from Harvard School of Education; and an Ed.D in Higher Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.