Elizabeth S. Marcuse Steps Down as President of LIM School

Elizabeth S. Marcuse, president of LIM School and a third-generation household chief of the varsity, will step down, efficient Dec. 31. She will likely be succeeded by Ron Marshall, an skilled retail trade govt and member of the faculty’s board of administrators, who will turn into president on Jan. 1.

The board of administrators of LIM School revealed the information Friday.

In recognition of Marcuse’s 21 years of service as president of LIM School, she will likely be appointed president emeritus, efficient Jan. 1, and can stay engaged in varied school actions. She can even proceed to be on the LIM school board of administrators in addition to the LIM Style Training Basis board of administrators.

Marcuse succeeded her father, Adrian Marcuse, within the function in 2002. Adrian Marcuse, who held the function for 40 years, had taken over from his father, who based the faculty in 1939.

Throughout her time as president of LIM School, Marcuse, 60, strengthened the educational packages and helped the scholars turn into extra globally aggressive, and globally and technologically fluent. As well as, she dramatically elevated scholar enrollment and bolstered the administration and school.

Marshall, 69, who has been a member of the LIM School board of administrators since 2019, has been serving as a marketing consultant and senior adviser to LIM’s govt management staff on strategic, monetary and operational issues. Amongst a number of govt management roles all through his profession, Marshall was most not too long ago CEO of Claire’s Shops Inc. from 2016 to 2019. Earlier, he was president and CEO of The Nice Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., a grocery store chain, and CEO of bookseller Borders Group. Along with LIM School, he has served on the board of administrators of Claire’s and Linens & Issues.

“The choice to step down as president of LIM was troublesome, but it’s the proper resolution for me personally and professionally,” stated Marcuse. “LIM has a stable basis and robust momentum going into the long run, and I’m happy with the half I’ve performed for greater than twenty years to place the faculty for continued success in altering instances.”

“I’m happy I’ll proceed to work together with school, employees, trade companions, and LIM alumni, who’re gifted and devoted educators and professionals. Most of all, I look ahead to continued connections with college students, whose achievement of their dream careers has at all times been each my objective and the aim of LIM School. I’ll take an energetic function in guaranteeing a clean and efficient transition to Ron’s management subsequent 12 months,” Marcuse added.

In accordance with William Borner, chair of the LIM School board of administrators, Marcuse’s tenure as president has been certainly one of vital development and innovation.

“Over her a long time of management, the faculty has grown considerably in dimension, whereas nonetheless sustaining its place because the nation’s premier establishment targeted on getting ready tomorrow’s leaders within the enterprise of style and way of life. With the good thing about Liz’s imaginative and prescient and steerage, LIM is now a grasp’s degree-granting establishment, has expanded its vary of educational program choices to maintain tempo with a consistently altering subject, modernized all its amenities and welcomed a scholar physique that’s extra racially, ethnically and geographically numerous, amongst many different achievements,” stated Borner.

Previous to becoming a member of LIM School as president, Marcuse had a profitable profession within the style trade, serving as director of retail planning for Donna Karan. Earlier than that, she was director of retail planning at Mamiye Gross sales Inc., a childrenswear producer, and earlier, was a purchaser at Lane Bryant and Montgomery Ward. She started her profession within the govt coaching program at Macy’s.

Along with serving on the LIM School board of administrators and on the LIM Style Training Basis board, Marcuse can also be vice chairperson of the board of trustees of the Affiliation of Personal Faculties, amongst different board positions. In recognition of her contributions to training within the style enterprise, Marcuse was awarded an honorary physician of economic science diploma from LIM, and he or she is a previous recipient of BRAG’s Style Management award for her accomplishments in training and dedication to range and inclusion.

LIM School, which was initially referred to as the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, was based by Marcuse’s grandfather, Maxwell F. Marcuse, in 1939. He arrange a mock retailer, and experiential studying grew to become the spine of the establishment. The unique mission was to determine a college for ladies to be educated in extra areas, aside from in secretarial expertise.

Its first graduating class had 79 ladies. Right now, LIM School provides grasp’s, bechelor’s and associates levels throughout the worldwide enterprise of style and way of life, and there are greater than 1,300 college students enrolled.

Alums are employed at firms together with Chanel, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Ross Shops, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and Walmart, with 96 % of its 2022 graduates working in style and way of life or persevering with their research inside six months of commencement.