Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has been named executive director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, a Baltimore-based program for gifted schoolchildren.

Bates College announced last week that Hansen would be leaving the Lewiston school this summer for a leadership position elsewhere, but it declined to say where she was going until her new institution made the announcement. Johns Hopkins made its announcement this week.

Hansen has served as president of Bates for nine years. In that time, she’s overseen the creation of a comprehensive facilities plan and a number of major building projects, as well as an increase in funding, student aid and campus diversity, according to a statement from the college. 

Hansen will leave Bates in July and will start her new position Aug. 1. The college’s Board of Trustees has formed a presidential search committee and will soon begin the process of finding Hansen’s replacement. In the meantime, Nancy J. Cable, Bates’ vice president and dean of enrollment and external affairs, will serve as interim president.

As executive director of the Center for Talented Youth, Hansen will manage a budget of more than $50 million and will direct 180 full-time employees, 220 part-time employees and 1,600 summer program employees.

An arm of Johns Hopkins, the center finds exceptional primary and secondary school students and supports them with challenging courses and other programs, both in person and online. In 2010, it enrolled more than 26,000 students in summer residential classes and year-round online courses. It has served more than 444,000 students between the second and 12th grades since 1979.

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