AUBURN – Scott Knapp, president of CMCC, has announced that the college has hired RuthAnne Haley as the new assistant dean for the center of retention and transfer.

Haley earned her master’s of education, administration, training and policy degree, with a concentration in higher education, from Boston University. She also graduated cum laude from Boston University with a bachelor of liberal arts degree in art history.

Before coming to CMCC, she was the enrollment services coordinator at Southern Maine Community College. She was previously an administrator at Boston University’s School of Education, serving as the director of records and testing at that school. Later she was the registrar for Tufts University Medical School’s public health programs. She is a resident of Cape Elizabeth.