Tufts University President Anthony Monaco To Step Down

MEDFORD, MA — Tufts University President Anthony Monaco will step down from his role next summer.

In a message to the Tufts community, Monaco said he informed the Board of Trustees over the weekend he will leave the role in 2023 after 12 years of service.

"Serving as president of this great university has been an incredible personal and professional journey for me," Monaco wrote in part.

Monaco, a geneticist, led the center for human genetics at Oxford University in England before becoming pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at the university in 2007, the Boston Globe reported. He took the reins at Tufts in 2011.

Peter Dolan, chair of the Tufts Board of Trustees, credited Monaco with doubling the university's endowment and number of undergraduate applicants during his tenure, spearheading the formation of the Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Mental Health Task Forces, acquiring the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and many other accomplishments.

"Thanks to his considerable gifts as a leader, Tony has strengthened the university by every possible metric," Dolan said. "Tony's achievements are more than we can recount here, and we expect there will be even more to acknowledge in the next year and a half."

Monaco said he is committed to finishing the Brighter World campaign, which has raised $1.28 billion of its $1.5 billion goal and will allow the university to hire more faculty, increase financial aid and build new facilities.

"Tufts is an esteemed university that is poised to become even greater," Monaco said. "That is why I believe that after 12 years the time will be right for the community to welcome a new leader, one with a bold vision and fresh energy who can steer Tufts to seize every opportunity it deserves."