McDaniel College President Joan Develin Coley has announced  that she will step down from her helm from the Westminster college in 2010.

Coley announced her retirement at an executive session of the April 18 board of trustees meeting at the college. Coley has served as McDaniel’s president for 10 years and her retirement will start June 30, 2010.

“It has been my great fortune to spend almost all of my working life on this [McDaniel] college campus, a place I love and believe in with unreasonable passion,” she said in a news release issued today by the college. “It is here that I came of age as an educator and here I will leave in 2010 having been educated by my colleagues on the faculty and the staff and by the board.”

Coley has spent her life in higher education, accumulating 40 years of experience in the classroom and in administration. Prior to her serving as McDaniel president, she served as provost for six years. She joined the college faculty in 1973 as director of the Graduate Reading Program and was later promoted to serve as dean of Graduate Affairs and chair of the Department of Education.

Board member and college alumna Mary Lynn Durham will serve as chair of a newly formed Presidential Transition Committee to search for a new president.

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