Staff Bios Janet Lavin Rapelye, PresidentJanet Rapelye became COFHE’s third president on November 1, 2018. Before joining COFHE, Rapelye served as Dean of Admission at Princeton University from 2003-2018. During her tenure at Princeton, the applicant pool nearly tripled and she helped to transform the diversity of its undergraduate student body. Princeton tripled the number of admitted students eligible for federal Pell Grants from 7 percent in the Class of 2007 to an estimated 23 percent for those offered admission to the Class of 2022. Prior to her leadership role at Princeton, Rapelye served as Dean of Admission for 12 years at Wellesley College. She joined Wellesley College in 1991 from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she was Associate Director of Admissions. Earlier she worked in the admissions offices at Stanford University and Williams College. She was certified by the Vermont Board of Education and taught high school English in a rural public school in northern Vermont. Rapelye is past chair of the New England Regional Council of the College Board. She has served on the board of trustees of The Principia Corporation, The Common Application and The College Board. She is a member of the Corporation of the Noble and Greenough School where she is also an alumna. She is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.Sydney Earle, Assistant Director for Administration Sydney Earle is Assistant Director for Administration at the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, where she is COFHE's senior meeting planner, and is responsible for office management, Web site management, and coordination of COFHE's online meeting registrations and several of our online surveys. Prior to joining COFHE in 1989, she helped manage the Business Affairs office at the National Association of College and University Business Officers; in addition, she managed meetings, communications, and direct mail fundraising for several small nonprofit organizations concerned with various social issues. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland.
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