She has taught at Dartmouth College and was Dean of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
She began her tenure by presenting her Plan for a New Century[further explanation needed].
When she retired in June 2008, she left the college with a 40 percent increase in undergraduate applications, a completed fund-raising campaign that tripled the goal of the previous campaign, and an endowment that had nearly doubled during her eleven-year tenure.
Vickers was perceived as an innovative president, who preserved the college's traditions and challenged both students and alumnae by successfully developing campaigns to expand Bryn Mawr intellectually and financially.
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