University of New England

Former UNE president appointed to AOA's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation

University of New England President Emeritus Sandra Featherman, Ph.D., was recently appointed to the American Osteopathic Association’s (AOA) Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA), the accrediting agency for colleges of osteopathic medicine in the United States. Featherman was appointed to an unexpired public member position with a three-year term.

Sandra Featherman
Featherman was president of the University of New England from 1995 through June 2006. The UNE Board of Trustees has named her president emeritus.

Featherman serves as chair of the Assembly of Presidents of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine; vice president, Samuel Fels Fund; commissioner of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Higher Education; and secretary of the Maine Women's Forum. She also sits on the Higher Education Policy Committee, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities; Commission on Minorities in Higher Education, American Council on Education; Maine Compact for Higher Education; and State of Maine Judicial Compensation Commission. She has functioned as president of both the Maine Independent Colleges Association and the Greater Portland Alliance of Colleges.

Her many awards include Champion of Economic Development, Maine Development Foundation, 2002; Woman of Distinction, International Women's Forum, 2004; and Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, Governor of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Featherman previously held positions at the University of Minnesota at Duluth as vice chancellor for academic administration and professor of political science, and at Temple University as assistant to the president, director of the Center for Public Policy and president of the Faculty Senate.

(Press release issued Aug. 8, 2007)