Mary Strey (pictured), Central College’s vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty, was selected by the Council of Independent Colleges to participate in its yearlong Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program for prospective college and university presidents. She is among 20 senior college administrators nationally selected this year for the program. The seminar-based program is designed to help individuals with the potential to serve as college and university presidents to clarify the alignment between their personal and professional values and goals and the missions of institutions that they might lead in the future. Strey, also a professor of chemistry and biology, has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and romance languages from Bowdoin College and a doctorate in biochemistry from Dartmouth College and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular neurobiology.