Dr. Sharon B. DeVivo has been with Vaughn College since 1996 and president since 2014. She is the seventh president of the institution and the first woman. Vaughn is ranked as the number one institution in the nation in upward mobility and is the best at moving students from the bottom 40 percent to the top 40 percent in income. Vaughn serves a diverse student body of about 1,200 students who are more than 80 percent from underrepresented and under resourced communities as well as first-generation Americans and first-generation college students. Her strategic objective is to create a transformative educational experience inside and outside the classroom.