Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/26/2018)

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Appointments

Rick Aman, interim president of the College of Eastern Idaho, will become president there. Mr. Aman served as president of Eastern Idaho Technical College before it became the College of Eastern Idaho in 2017.

John Erwin, former interim president of Marion Technical College and former president of Illinois Central College, has been named interim president of Black Hawk College. The college’s previous president, Bettie Truitt, retired in December.

Howard O. Gibson, senior vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at Arkansas Baptist College, became interim president at the college in December, after Joseph L. Jones was fired from the top post.

Wolde-Ab Isaac, president of Riverside City College, became chancellor of Riverside Community College District on January 1. Michael Burke, who had been chancellor since 2014, retired on December 31.

Katie Leonard, executive vice president at Johnson College, will become the college’s president and chief executive on July 1. She will succeed Ann L. Pipinski, who has led the college since 2003 and plans to retire on June 30.

Mark Smith, vice president for educational services at Temple College, will become president of Cloud County Community College on February 1. He will succeed Danette Toone, who took the helm in 2010.

Leocadia I. Zak, who was director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency under President Obama, will become president of Agnes Scott College on July 1. Elizabeth Kiss, who has led the college since 2006, plans to step down on June 30.

Departures

Joseph L. Jones, president of Arkansas Baptist College for just over a year, was terminated from that post in December.

Ray Keck, president of Texas A&M University at Commerce since 2016, will step down, effective August 31. He plans to take a year of developmental leave and return to the faculty.

Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester since 2005, will step down on February 28.

Retirements

Glen Gabert, president of Hudson County Community College since 1992, will retire at the end of June.

Gary L. Rhodes, president of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College since 2002, will retire on September 1.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Karim Ismaili, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, to permanent status in that role.

James Llorens, interim chief administrative officer for the City of Baton Rouge and former chancellor of Southern University, to interim provost at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Mark Richards, professor of Earth and planetary science and former executive dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Berkeley, to provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Washington.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Diana Ariza, associate vice president and chief diversity officer at Quinnipiac University, to vice president for diversity and inclusion at Nazareth College of Rochester.

Anita D. Britt, former chief financial officer at Perry Ellis International, and a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Thomas University, to chief financial and administrative officer at the university.

Steven D. Brown, vice president of clinical operations for Trinity Health Provider Network, to chief clinical officer and associate vice president of clinical strategy for the Texas A&M University Health Science Center, and chief clinical officer and professor with the Texas A&M College of Medicine.

Allison Gearing-Kalill, vice president for fund development at Sisters of Providence Health System/Mercy Medical Center, to vice president for development and planned giving at Bay Path University.

Andrew Jones, associate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel for the California State University system, to executive vice chancellor, general counsel, and secretary to the Board of Trustees.

Mike Marlow, deputy director of athletics at Washington State University, to vice president for intercollegiate athletics at Northern Arizona University.

Colleen Newquist, communications consultant and former assistant vice president for alumni relations and development communications at the University of Chicago, to vice president for marketing and communication at Loyola University Chicago.

Thomas A. Owens, senior vice president of Duke University Health System, to an additional role as president of Duke University Hospital.

Keith Richardson, assistant vice president of leadership programs at Monmouth University, to vice president for development and alumni affairs at Delaware Valley University.

Matt Santos, director of university relations and interim associate vice president for communications, marketing, and external affairs at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, to vice president for communications, marketing, and external affairs.

Deans

Appointments

Bruce Johnson, interim dean of the University of Arizona’s College of Education, to permanent status in that role.

Rabbi Daniel Judson, associate dean of placement and professional development in the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College, to dean of the Rabbinical School.

Judith Kelley, professor of public policy and political science, and senior associate dean in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, to dean of the school.

Chelly Templeton, interim dean of the School of Education and Behavioral Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, to permanent status in that role.

Resignations

Anne P. Massey, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, resigned from that post on December 31, after just a semester in the role, and planned to return to the faculty as a professor.

Department chairs

Appointments

Maura Polansky, program director for curriculum development in the department of clinical education at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, to chair and associate professor in the department of physician-assistant studies at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Other administrators

Appointments

Anna Spain Bradley, associate professor of law and assistant vice provost for faculty development and diversity at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to an additional role as faculty director of the new “master of studies in law with a focus in human rights” degree program, being offered in partnership with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Antonia Buckley, freelance photographer and co-founder of the Hoping Machine, a community activism group, to Berkshire immigrant-stories coordinator at Berkshire Community College.

Steve Eshelman, senior development director of the Gulf Stream Council of the Boy Scouts of America, to director of alumni relations at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Michael Fay Jr., search-engine-optimization specialist at Dealer.com, to director and head coach of eSports at the University of Akron.

Gary Gray, director of athletics at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, to director of athletics at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Ericka Gutierrez, former admissions counselor for the University of Central Arkansas, to coordinator of Hispanic and Latino outreach initiatives in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the university.

Rachel Jenkins, program manager for the Miami Dade College Idea Center’s Generation IT, a youth training and employment program, to development coordinator in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Florida International University.

Sally Lewis, associate professor and head of the department of medical-lab sciences and public health at Tarleton State University, to associate dean of the university’s College of Health Sciences and Human Services.

Denise Martinez, head of the department of engineering and computer science at Tarleton State University, to associate dean in the university’s new School of Engineering.

Adjua (Maia) McGill, director of sales for InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, to director of development in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Florida International University.

Manon L. O’Connor, senior director of development at the University of Vermont Cancer Center, to senior director of development at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Katherine Parnell, director of Camp Bob at Kanuga, to executive assistant to the president at Brevard College.

David Ribble, professor of biology at Trinity University, to associate vice president for budget and research in academic affairs.

Cecil Scheib, managing director of the Building Resiliency Task Force for the City of New York and chief program officer at Urban Green Council, to assistant vice president for sustainability at New York University.

Stephen J. Teach, chair of the department of pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine, to an additional role as associate dean for pediatric academic affairs.

Faculty

Appointments

David J. Kramer, senior director for human rights and democracy at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University and a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in the U.S. Department of State, was named a senior fellow of human rights and diplomacy at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.

Retirements

Eugene Quindlen, a professor of neurology and former chair of the department of neurosurgery at the University of South Alabama, retired on December 7.

Organizations

Appointments

Susan A. May, president of Fox Valley Technical College, was named chair of the board of directors for the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.

John Mulchaey, director of observatories at the Carnegie Institution for Science, to an additional role as interim co-president of the institution.

Yixian Zheng, director of embryology at the Carnegie Institution for Science, to an additional role as interim co-president of the institution.

Retirements

Larry Isaak plans to retire on November 16 as president of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a nonprofit regional organization to improve access and opportunities in higher education. He will have led the organization for nearly 15 years.

Deaths

Calestous Juma, a professor of the practice of international development in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at the school’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died on December 15 after a long illness. He was 64. Mr. Juma received international recognition for his scholarly work in technology and sustainability, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, World Academy of Sciences, and African Academy of Sciences.

David Millhorn, senior vice president emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, died on December 18. He was 72. After retiring as vice president for research, outreach, and economic development in July, he served as national-laboratory-relations adviser to the university at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Muriel Munchrath, emeritus assistant professor in the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, died on Dec. 27. She was 94. She was on the faculty from 1970 to 1990.

Richard A. Rose, an associate professor of dance and longtime coordinator of the dance program in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, died on November 18. He was 61.

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