Top Chief Executives
Bart Daig, Baker College system
Ronald Liebowitz, Brandeis University
Jim Yeonopolus, Central Texas College
David Wippman, Hamilton College (N.Y.)
Dianna Phillips, Harford Community College
James Birge, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Lillian Schumacher, Pennsylvania State University-Beaver
Laurie Nichols, University of Wyoming
Makola Abdullah, Virginia State University
Sheree Utash, Wichita Area Technical College
Appointments
Marilyn Abbott, interim provost, to provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lindenwood University.
Makola Abdullah, provost and senior vice president at Bethune-Cookman University, to president of Virginia State University.
Carey Bell, principal clarinet at the San Francisco Symphony, to woodwind faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Audrey Bilger, founding faculty director of the Center for Writing and Public Discourse and professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College, to vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Pomona College.
James Birge, president of Franklin Pierce University, to president of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Prudence Carter, professor of education and sociology at Stanford University, to dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley.
Christy Chase, a nurse, to director of student health services at Quinnipiac University.
Terrence Cheng, associate provost for academic programs and professor of English at the City University of New York Brooklyn College, to campus director at the University of Connecticut-Stamford.
Craig Clark, dean of the School of Applied Technology, to vice president for economic development at Alfred State College.
Mike Clary, head coach for women’s golf, to an additional post, director of athletics at Rhodes College (Tenn.).
Robin Cooke, faculty member in the Alaska Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Washington School of Medicine, to assistant professor of ambulatory care at High Point University.
Bart Daig, chief operating officer, to president of the Baker College system.
Michael Delzotti, senior director of philanthropic resources at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, to president of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation.
Raymond DuBois, executive director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University at Tempe, to dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Greg Dunaway, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Mississippi State University, to dean of Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University.
Angela Evans, former deputy director for the Congressional Research Service, to dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jacob Fraire, vice president for philanthropy at Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, to president of the Texas Association of Community Colleges.
Todd Gibson, assistant professor of exercise science and head coach for men’s and women’s track and field, to director of athletics at Grove City College.
Pascal Haegeli, assistant professor, to research chair in avalanche risk management in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University.
Andrew Harris, dean of arts and humanities at Keene State College, to dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University.
Jay Hartzell, senior associate dean of academic affairs, to dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Antony Haynes, lawyer at Williams & Connolly, to associate dean of strategic initiatives and information systems and executive director of Schaffer Law Library at Albany Law School.
Brett Hurst, product specialist and project manager at Qualtrics, to coordinator for institutional assessment at High Point University.
Andy Igonor, professor of computer and information sciences, to chair of the department of computer and information sciences at Franklin University.
Alice Issai, chief operating officer for the medical center at the University of California at Irvine, to chief operating officer for the Keck Medical Center at the University of Southern California.
Christopher Jadoch, assistant professor of pharmacy, to assistant dean of faculty and student affairs for the School of Pharmacy at D’Youville College.
Marie Johnson, director of the environmental program and professor of geology at the United States Military Academy at West Point, to dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University at Fullerton.
Chad Johnson, director of information technology at William Mitchell College of Law, to chief information officer at Northwestern Health Sciences University.
Odetta Johnson, major and chief of staff for the Richmond, Va., Police Department, to director of public safety and chief of police at North Carolina Central University.
Robert Kelly, assistant superintendent for auxiliary and support service for the Utica Community Schools (Mich.), to executive director of facilities operations at Oakland Community College.
Nate Knobel, founder of Knobel Photography, to coordinator for digital communications at Marietta College.
Narayana Kocherlakota, former president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, to professor of economics at the University of Rochester.
Guido Krickx, dean of the College of Continuing Education at California State University at Sacramento, to dean of the College of Extended Learning at San Francisco State University.
Jill Langen, vice president for academics, to president and chief academic officer at Baker College Online and Center for Graduate Studies.
Ronald Liebowitz, president of Middlebury College, to president of Brandeis University.
Mingjia Liu, principal oboe at the San Francisco Opera, to woodwind faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Richard Moberly, associate dean, to interim dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska.
Keith Moore, associate vice president for student affairs, to vice president for student affairs at Virginia Wesleyan College.
Milton Moreland, interim dean, to vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Rhodes College (Tenn.).
Laurie Nichols, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at South Dakota State University, to president of the University of Wyoming.
Vivian-Lee Nyitray, founding dean at Prospect Colleges in Chongqing and Taigu, China, to associate vice provost and executive director of the education abroad programs at the University of California system.
Judy Oliveira, interim vice chancellor, to vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Hawaii West Oahu.
Steve Partridge, chief executive of Charlotte Works, to vice president for workforce development at Northern Virginia Community College.
Jonathan Peeler, director of facilities for the School of Veterinary Medicine at Ross University, to associate vice chancellor for facilities management at North Carolina Central University.
Dianna Phillips, chief executive of the University of the District of Columbia Community College, to president of Harford Community College.
Precious Porras, interim director, to director of multicultural affairs at the University of Kansas.
Kirstin Valdez Quade, an award-winning fiction writer, to assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
Barbara Randazzo, interim dean, to dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Elizabethtown College.
Christopher Santilli, director of advertising at the Boston Business Journal, to corporate relations officer at Roger Williams University.
Lillian Schumacher, vice president for academic affairs at Tiffin University, to chancellor of Pennsylvania State University-Beaver.
Samuel Scozzafava Jr., interim chief information officer, to vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Syracuse University.
Kelsea Seymour, volleyball coach at Oak Grove High School (Miss.), to head coach for women’s volleyball at William Carey University.
Lori Shorr, chief education officer for the City of Philadelphia, to associate professor of urban education at Temple University.
Wim Steelant, vice president for research and dean of science at St. Thomas University, to dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
Alzada Tipton, senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Elmhurst College, to provost and dean of the faculty at Whitman College.
Sheree Utash, interim president, to president of Wichita Area Technical College.
Fred Van Sickle, chief development officer at the Institute for Advanced Study, to vice president for alumni affairs and development at Cornell University.
Tyson Voelkel, former chief operating officer at Capital Technologies, to president of Texas A&M Foundation.
Stephanie Walker, director of admissions at Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, to director of admissions at Manor College.
Kristi Williams, associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University, to an additional post, editor of the National Council on Family Relations’s Journal of Marriage and Family.
David Wippman, dean of the law school at University of Minnesota, to president of Hamilton College (N.Y.).
Jim Yeonopolus, interim chancellor, to chancellor of Central Texas College.
Resignations
Nancy Carriuolo, president of Rhode Island College.
David Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University.
Robert Hill, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of North Dakota.
Thomas Rosandich, president of the United States Sports Academy.
Retirements
John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president at Campbellsville University.
F. James Cummins, president of the Baker College system.
Jeffrey Horrell, librarian and dean of libraries at Dartmouth College, effective June 30.
Wade McCamey, president of Walters State Community College, effective June 30.
Ernest Nolan, provost and vice president for academic administration at Madonna University.
Deaths
Amir Aczel, 65, former professor at Bentley University, died November 26 in Nimes, France.
Renee Arb, 93, founder and former chair of the art department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, died October 16 in Cambridge, Mass.
Brother Paul French, 83, president emeritus of Lewis University, died December 10 in Chicago.
Alfred Gilman, 74, former executive vice president for academic affairs and provost and former dean of the medical school and chair of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, died December 23.
Glenn Goerke, 84, president emeritus of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, died November 13 in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Gerald Grob, 84, professor emeritus of the history of medicine at Rutgers University, died December 16 in Evergreen, Colo.
Charles Harris, 81, founder and former director of the Howard University Press, died December 16 in New York City.
Robert Edward Royall Huntley, 86, former president of Washington and Lee University, died December 10 in Lexington, Va.
Carl Kerr, 89, former professor of mathematics and computer science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, died December 10.
Walter Leonard, 86, former special assistant to the president and assistand dean of admissions for Harvard Law School, died December 8 in Kensington, Md.
George Levine, 86, former provost and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University at Buffalo, died December 16 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Sister Emellia Prokopik, 95, former academic dean at Manor College, died December 17.
Robert Spitzer, 83, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Columbia University, died December 25 in Seattle.
Richard Tobin, 90, former professor of internal medicine-endocrinology, physiology, and biochemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died December 6 in Omaha.
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