PATRICIA SAGASTI SUPPES

PATRICIA SAGASTI SUPPES has been named the new director of global education at Hartwick College. Sagasti Suppes comes from Cormack Consultancy Group of Edinburgh, Scotland, where she developed new partnerships and existing connections between higher-education institutions in the U.S. and abroad. She previously served as director of international programs and experiential term at Ferrum College in Virginia, where she was an associate professor of Spanish and program coordinator of Spanish, Russian, and French. Hartwick’s Global Education Office oversees the college’s off-campus J Term program, and administers semester-long study abroad programs, the Duffy Ambassadorships, Emerson International Internship Scholarships, and the Cyrus Mehri ‘83 Global Pluralism Fellowship. Global Education staff also advise international students and promote community-based service-learning initiatives. A native of Lima, Peru, Sagasti Suppes holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Romance languages and literatures from the University of North Carolina and is working toward a certificate in higher-education leadership and administration from the University of Massachusetts. She is a published author, researcher, and frequent presenter at both domestic and international conferences. Sagasti Suppes speaks several languages.