Bureau of Study Counsel Director Abigail Lipson to Retire

Bureau of Study Counsel director Abigail Lipson will retire in mid-September, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana wrote in an email to students Wednesday.

Lipson’s retirement comes after 13 years in her current role, and a total of 28 years working at the College. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Sindhumathi Revuluri will serve as the bureau’s interim director this academic year.

During her tenure, Lipson helped oversee the BSC’s move from Harvard University Health Services to the College. In addition to her work leading the BSC, Lipson has served as co-coordinator for the Success-Failure Project — which encourages students to discuss moments of “success, failure, and resilience,” per the BSC website — and BSC liaison to Adams House.

In his email, Khurana wrote he is “deeply grateful” to Lipson for her work as BSC director.

“Abigail has been central to the BSC mission of promoting students’ capacities for meaningful and effective engagement with academic life and learning,” he wrote. “I want to thank Dr. Lipson for all her efforts in supporting you, our students.”

In an email to colleagues yesterday in which she first announced her retirement, Lipson wrote the BSC has been a “home for my heart” and she feels “great gratitude” to her co-workers.

Revuluri’s new role as interim dean at the bureau will not entail a drastic shift from her current work. As associate dean, she oversees the BSC and the Accessible Education Office and works to make academic support services available to all students, Khurana wrote.

In an email Wednesday, Revuluri wrote she is “so grateful” for Lipson’s leadership of the BSC, and for her “partnership” during the transition.

“I’m excited that Rakesh and Amanda have asked me to serve as interim director, and I look forward to getting to work,” she wrote.

—Staff writer Caroline S. Engelmayer can be reached at caroline.engelmayer@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @cengelmayer13.