Drugovich, Margaret

Margaret Drugovich, Ph.D. An American administrator of higher education administrator and healthcare policy researcher who is currently serving as interim president of Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. She previously served as the 10th president of Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York from 2008 to 2022.

Drugovich worked as a healthcare policy researcher at the Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. She joined Bryant University as associate director for institutional research, and then dean of admission and financial aid. In 1998, Drugovich joined Ohio Wesleyan University as vice-president for strategic communication and university enrollment^.

In 2008, Drugovich was announced as the 10th president of Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York. Early priorities of Drugovich‘s tenure addressed college affordability. In 2009, she launched a three-year program in which students can earn a degree in the majority of majors offered, taking three-quarters the time and at three-quarters the cost. In 2010, fundraising began for The Campaign for Hartwick Students: It’s Personal. The initiative raised a record $34.7 million with student scholarships as the principal objective.

In 2013 Drugovich was appointed to the U.S. Senate Bi-partisan Task Force on Government Regulation of Higher Education, chaired by Senator Lamar Alexander. She served as the chair of the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network Executive Council, and was a member of the NCAA Division III President’s Council and Strategic Planning and Finance Committee.

She also served as a member of the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), and was chair of the executive committee on Accountability. Drugovich was also board treasurer and chair of the Finance and Administrative Committee of the New York Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU).

In June 2023, the Marietta College Board of Trustees selected Drugovich to serve as interim president effective July 1, 2023.

Drugovich grew up on her parents’ grape farm in Geneva, Ohio. First in her family to attend college, she studied experimental psychology at Albertus Magnus College and later earned a Master’s degree in medical sociology at Brown University. Drugovich completed a Doctor of Management at Case Western Reserve University‘s Weatherhead School of Management in 2004, where she was a Fellow at the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

Drugovich is openly gay and was one of the first out LGBTQ+ presidents in higher education in the U.S. She and her long-term partner, Elizabeth Steele, married in 2013; they have two children together.