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Westminster College’s new president, to be inaugurated Saturday, hopes to ‘counter that mindset’ that private college is inaccessible

Westminster College, a private institution tucked in the foothills of Salt Lake City, will inaugurate its 19th — and second female — president Saturday morning.

Bethami Dobkin will take over the post after spending the last 10 years as provost and vice president for academic affairs and professor of communication at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is replacing Stephen Morgan, who retired after 37 years at Westminster and three as its president.

“It’s a really exciting place to be,” Dobkin said in an interview this week. “I can’t imagine a better place to have landed.