Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"Yale SOM confirmed my commitment to working in higher education -- not simply pursuing a path of least resistance, but understanding the special opportunities for truly collaborative work and leadership as well. Understanding the business world is invaluable to a manager in a non-profit setting. Yale SOM was a wonderful learning experience, a great community, and the foundation for my career."

Elizabeth Eismeier became vice president for finance and administration at Vassar College in 2001.

Prior to joining the Vassar administration, Ms. Eismeier was financial vice president and treasurer at Colgate University, a position she held from 1987 through June of 2001. In that capacity, she served as Colgate’s chief financial officer. She was a member of the president’s staff throughout her Colgate career, which began in 1980, when she was appointed as associate provost. In 1985 she joined the division of business and finance and served for two years as associate vice president before her promotion to financial vice president and treasurer. She represented Colgate for many years in athletic league matters and served as chair of the policy committee of the Patriot League and co-chair of the ECAC Division I Hockey League.

Before her Colgate career, Ms. Eismeier spent nine years at Yale University as an administrator in the experimental summer term in Yale College, the Provost’s Office, and the Campaign for Yale.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College with a major in american studies, Ms. Eismeier also holds an MBA from Yale School of Management. She is a member of the Smith College Investments Committee and previously served as the treasurer of the board of directors of the Smith Alumnae Association. Currently she is a member of the advisory board of the Private Equity Funds of Commonfund Capital. She has been active in both the National and Eastern Associations of College and University Business Officers, and is a participant in the Forum for the Future of Higher Education.

Ms. Eismeier was a founding board member of the Partnership for Community Development in Hamilton, NY. A mother of three teenagers, she was also the manager of the New Hartford Girls Hockey Club and a Girl Scout leader. She served as a board member, treasurer and vice president of the Chenango Nursery School in Hamilton, NY, from 1986 until 1993.

She is married to Theodore J. Eismeier, professor of government at Hamilton College. Her daughter Anne attends the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, her son Ted attends Northfield Mount Hermon School, and her son Tim attends St. Marks School in Southborough, MA. The family resides in Poughkeepsie near the Vassar campus.