Transitions: Bennington College and Ohio State U. Select New Presidents

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Appointments

Lloyd A. Holmes, vice president for student services at Monroe Community College, will become president of De Anza College on July 1.

Kevin James, interim president of Morris Brown College since March 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

Kristina M. Johnson, chancellor of the State University of New York, will become president of Ohio State University on September 1. She will succeed Michael V. Drake, who will retire.

Gary Locke, a former governor of Washington, has been named interim president of Bellevue College. He will replace Kristen Jones, who has served as acting president since Jerry Weber’s resignation following the defacement of a mural honoring Japanese Americans.

Milagros (Milly) Peña, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California at Riverside, has been named president of the State University of New York College at Purchase.

Stephen L. Percy, interim president of Portland State University since June 2019, has been named to the post permanently. He became interim president last June, after Rahmat Shoureshi’s resignation.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will become its first female chancellor on July 1. She will succeed Arnold Eisen, who plans to step down.

Laura R. Walker, an executive fellow at the Yale School of Management and a former president of New York Public Radio, has been named president of Bennington College.

Karen M. Whitney, president emerita of Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a former interim chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, has been named interim chancellor of the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Lori E. Varlotta, president of Hiram College, in Ohio, will become president of California Lutheran University on September 30. She will be the first woman to lead the university.

Retirements

Fletcher M. Lamkin, president of Westminster College, in Missouri, plans to retire at the end of June. He became president there for the second time in 2017; his first tenure was from 2000 to 2007.

Robert (Bob) Emmett Staton, president of Presbyterian College since 2015, plans to retire in December.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS

Appointments

Stephen Lowe, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Olivet Nazarene University, has been named vice president for academic affairs.

Darrell Newton, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Winona State University, in Minnesota, on July 6.

Carolyn Thomas, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the University of California at Davis, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University at Fullerton on July 15.

Resignations

Marc Roy, provost of Albion College, plans to resign on June 30. After a sabbatical leave, he will join the faculty.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Erika Davis, assistant vice president for online programs and graduate enrollment at Mary Baldwin University, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Cedar Crest College.

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Lamar R. Hylton, interim vice president for student affairs at Kent State University since September 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

Thomas Jackiewicz, chief executive of Keck Medicine at the University of Southern California, will become president of the University of Chicago Medical Center and chief operating officer of the UChicago Medicine system on August 31.

Theresa Law, vice president for advancement at New Mexico Highlands University, has been named vice president for student and donor engagement.

Terry Lindsay, vice president for student affairs and campus life and an associate professor of leadership at Paul Smith’s College, will become vice president for student affairs at Albany State University, in Georgia, on July 6.

Dwayne Mack, a professor of history and chair in African American history at Berea College, will become vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion on July 1.

Lisette Martinez, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Yale New Haven Health System, has been named executive vice president and chief diversity officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.

Santhana Naidu, associate vice president and chief marketing officer at Indiana State University, has been named vice president for communications and marketing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Tonantzin Oseguera, associate vice president for student affairs at California State University at Fullerton, will become vice president for student affairs on July 1.

Shannon Roddy, chief financial officer of Broward College Foundation and BCEduventures, Inc. at Broward College, has been named chief financial officer of the Miami Dade College Foundation.

Artanya Wesley, interim vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, has been named to the post permanently.

Retirements

Mary Larson Diaz, vice president for university relations at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will retire.

Robert Renaud, vice president and chief information officer at Dickinson College, plans to retire at the end of June, after 19 years at the college.

DEANS

Appointments

Cheryl Anderson, a professor and interim chair of the department of family medicine and public health in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, has been named founding dean of the university’s Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

John M. M. Anderson, interim dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University, has been named to the post permanently.

Lynden A. Archer, a professor of engineering at Cornell University, has been named the dean of engineering.

Kavita Bala, a professor and chair of the department of computer science at Cornell University, will become dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science on August 15.

John Blackshear, associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Duke University, has been named dean of students and associate vice president for student affairs.

Anthony R. Bowrin, dean of the Scott L. Carmona College of Business at Saginaw Valley State University, will become dean of the Cotsakos College of Business at William Paterson University on July 1.

Rachel Dunifon, interim dean of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, will become dean on July 1.

Pat Engebretson, chief information officer for East River Electric, has been named dean of the Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Dakota State University.

Kristin Gilger, a professor of business journalism at Arizona State University, has been named interim dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The university had originally appointed Sonya Forte Duhé, but pulled the offer after accusations of racism and mistreatment by former students.

Kimberly Killmer Hollister, a professor of information and operations management and vice dean of the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University, has been named dean of the school.

Jeffrey Johnson, associate dean and a professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Bridgeport, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Marywood University on July 1.

Brandon Kempner, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico Highlands University, has been named to the post permanently.

David Kenley, a professor of history and director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking at Elizabethtown College, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Dakota State University, in South Dakota, on June 22.

Robert Keynton, professor and chair of biomechanical devices in the department of bioengineering at the Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville, has been named dean of the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, will become interim dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education on July 1.

The Rev. Debra J. Mumford, a professor of homiletics, director of the Money Matters for Ministry program, and assistant dean of academic initiatives at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, has been named academic dean.

Jason Reeves, dean of educational studies, CAEP accreditation coordinator, and a professor of education at Union College, in Kentucky, has been named dean of education at Georgetown College, in Kentucky.

James L. Rodríguez, a professor of child and adolescent studies at California State University at Fullerton, will become dean of the School of Social Sciences and Education at California State University at Bakersfield on July 1.

Tatum Thomas, senior associate dean of student affairs in the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University, will become dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at DePaul University on July 1.

Daniel P. Tokaji, associate dean of faculty and a professor in the College of Law at Ohio State University, has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Jennifer Troyer, interim dean of the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been named to the post permanently.

Anthony D. Wilbon, associate dean of academic affairs and administration at Howard University, has been named dean of the School of Business.

Eric Wilcots, interim dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison since August 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

Retirements

Kevin Koury, dean of the College of Education and Human Services at California University of Pennsylvania, retired in April.

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Appointments

Sarah L. Berga, a professor and director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah, has been appointed chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Meaghan Alston, librarian of prints and photographs at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, has been named project archivist in the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tracey Ford, interim vice provost and dean of student affairs at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts since August, has been named to the post permanently.

Martin Garnar, dean of the Kraemer Family Library and a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, will become director of the library at Amherst College on August 1.

AnnMarie Gilbert, head coach at Virginia Union University, has been named head coach of women’s basketball at University of Detroit Mercy.

Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, will become a professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and will start the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University on July 1.

Brian Lym, dean of libraries and chief librarian at City University of New York’s Hunter College, has been named director of library services at Napa Valley College.

Kent Porterfield, vice president for student development at St. Louis University and a senior fellow with the American College Personnel Association, will become vice provost for student affairs at Gonzaga University on July 1.

Stuart Robinson, director of athletics, wellness, and recreation and head coach of the men’s soccer team at State University of New York at New Paltz, will become assistant vice president and director of athletics at New York University on August 3.

Jenna Shim, a professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Wyoming, will become associate dean for graduate programs in the college on July 1.

Justin Taylor, a visiting writer at the University of Montana, has been named director of the Sewanee School of Letters at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Brigitte Weinsteiger, associate university librarian for collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, has been named associate vice provost for collections and scholarly communications.

Byron White, vice president and executive director at StrivePartnership, has been named associate provost for the Office of Urban Research and Community Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

FACULTY

Appointments

Marlon James, a writer-in-residence and an associate professor of English at Macalester College, will become an instructor in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at St. Francis College.

TENURE AWARDS

The following professors were awarded tenure at their institutions. If a faculty rank is not included, the faculty member is being promoted to the rank of associate professor. The changes take effect on varying dates.

Dickinson College

Noreen Lape, associate provost of academic affairs and director of the writing program, to professor

Norwich University

Nadia Al-Aubaidy, construction management

Brian Glenney, philosophy

Mi Ri Kim, history

CHANGES IN RANK

Professors’ new ranks follow.

California Lutheran University

Bill Bilodeau, to professor emeritus of geology

Harry Domicone, to professor emeritus of strategic management

Michael Gerson, to associate professor emeritus of psychology

Larkin Higgins, to professor emeritus of art

Janice L. Tucker, to associate professor emeritus of educational leadership

Paul Williams, to professor emeritus of finance

Joan Wines, to professor emeritus of English

Norwich University

Carole Bandy, to professor emeritus of psychology

Emily Gray, to professor of history

Kathleen McDonald, to professor of English

Robert McKay, to professor emeritus of philosophy

Jeffrey Olson, to professor of mathematics

Judith Stallings-Ward, to professor of Spanish

Aimee Vieira, to professor of sociology

ORGANIZATIONS

Appointments

Zakiya Smith Ellis, New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education, has been named chief policy adviser to the governor of New Jersey.

Janet Godwin, chief operating officer at ACT, the nonprofit organization that develops and delivers the ACT test, has been named interim chief executive.

Angel B. Pérez, vice president for enrollment and student success at Trinity College, in Connecticut, has been named chief executive of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

Lawrence M. Schall, president of Oglethorpe University, will become president of the New England Commission of Higher Education on July 20.

DEATHS

Arthur Edward Binder, vice president for external relations at Dona Ana Community College, in New Mexico, died on April 26. He was 64.

Richard (Dick) Fenno Jr., a professor emeritus at the University of Rochester, died from complications associated with presumed Covid-19 on April 21. He was 93. Fenno wrote 19 books on Congress and its members. He concluded his academic career at the age of 86 with the 2013 publication of The Challenges of Congressional Representation.

Robert T. Holt, a former professor of political science at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on April 25. He was 91.

Rosalie Ann Kane, a professor of social work and public health at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on May 5. She was 79.

Nancy R. Lowitt, senior associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine, died on May 18 from complications of metastatic breast cancer. She was 64.

Thomas Roche Jr., a professor emeritus of English at Princeton University and an expert in epic and Renaissance poetry, died on May 3. He was 89.

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