Balch is a 1971 graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College,[1] and was the unanimous choice as the eighteenth president of the college by the board of trustees.
[citation needed] Balch has spent 28 years in higher education and came to Wesleyan after serving as president of Mayville State University, North Dakota.
[2] Prior to Mayville, the Uniontown, Pennsylvania, native was the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Bethany College in West Virginia, Vice Provost for Academic Planning at California State University, Chico, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus.
Her professional career began as a public school teacher in West Virginia.
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