Elizabeth S. Marcuse, president of LIM School and a third-generation household chief of the college, will step down, efficient Dec. 31. She can be succeeded by Ron Marshall, an skilled retail business government and member of the school’s board of administrators, who will turn out to be president on Jan. 1.
The board of administrators of LIM School revealed the information Friday.
In recognition of Marcuse’s 21 years of service as president of LIM School, she can be appointed president emeritus, efficient Jan. 1, and can stay engaged in numerous faculty actions. She may also proceed to be on the LIM faculty board of administrators in addition to the LIM Vogue Training Basis board of administrators.
Marcuse succeeded her father, Adrian Marcuse, within the function in 2002. Adrian Marcuse, who held the function for 40 years, had taken over from his father, who based the school in 1939.
Throughout her time as president of LIM School, Marcuse, 60, strengthened the tutorial packages and helped the scholars turn out to be extra globally aggressive, and globally and technologically fluent. As well as, she dramatically elevated pupil enrollment and bolstered the administration and school.
Marshall, 69, who has been a member of the LIM School board of administrators since 2019, has been serving as a advisor and senior adviser to LIM’s government management crew on strategic, monetary and operational issues. Amongst a number of government management roles all through his profession, Marshall was most not too long ago CEO of Claire’s Shops Inc. from 2016 to 2019. Earlier, he was president and CEO of The Nice Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., a grocery store chain, and CEO of bookseller Borders Group. Along with LIM School, he has served on the board of administrators of Claire’s and Linens & Issues.
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“The choice to step down as president of LIM was troublesome, but it’s the proper determination for me personally and professionally,” mentioned Marcuse. “LIM has a stable basis and robust momentum going into the long run, and I’m happy with the half I’ve performed for greater than 20 years to place the school for continued success in altering instances.”
“I’m happy I’ll proceed to work together with school, employees, business companions, and LIM alumni, who’re proficient and devoted educators and professionals. Most of all, I stay up for continued connections with college students, whose achievement of their dream careers has all the time been each my goal and the aim of LIM School. I’ll take an lively function in guaranteeing a clean and efficient transition to Ron’s management subsequent yr,” Marcuse added.
In response to William Borner, chair of the LIM School board of administrators, Marcuse’s tenure as president has been one in all important development and innovation.
“Over her many years of management, the school has grown considerably in dimension, whereas nonetheless sustaining its place because the nation’s premier establishment centered on getting ready tomorrow’s leaders within the enterprise of vogue and life-style. With the advantage of Liz’s imaginative and prescient and steerage, LIM is now a grasp’s degree-granting establishment, has expanded its vary of educational program choices to maintain tempo with a always altering area, modernized all its services and welcomed a pupil physique that’s extra racially, ethnically and geographically various, amongst many different achievements,” mentioned Borner.
Previous to becoming a member of LIM School as president, Marcuse had a profitable profession within the vogue business, serving as director of retail planning for Donna Karan. Earlier than that, she was director of retail planning at Mamiye Gross sales Inc., a childrenswear producer, and earlier, was a purchaser at Lane Bryant and Montgomery Ward. She started her profession within the government coaching program at Macy’s.
Along with serving on the LIM School board of administrators and on the LIM Vogue Training Basis board, Marcuse can also be vice chairperson of the board of trustees of the Affiliation of Personal Schools, amongst different board positions. In recognition of her contributions to training within the vogue enterprise, Marcuse was awarded an honorary physician of economic science diploma from LIM, and he or she is a previous recipient of BRAG’s Vogue Management award for her accomplishments in training and dedication to variety and inclusion.
LIM School, which was initially often called the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, was based by Marcuse’s grandfather, Maxwell F. Marcuse, in 1939. He arrange a mock retailer, and experiential studying turned the spine of the establishment. The unique mission was to determine a college for girls to be skilled in extra areas, aside from in secretarial abilities.
Its first graduating class had 79 ladies. At the moment, LIM School affords grasp’s, bechelor’s and associates levels throughout the worldwide enterprise of vogue and life-style, and there are greater than 1,300 college students enrolled.
Alums are employed at corporations together with Chanel, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Ross Shops, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and Walmart, with 96 p.c of its 2022 graduates working in vogue and life-style or persevering with their research inside six months of commencement.