Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (10/27/2017)

Chief executives

Appointments

Frances Bronet, senior vice president and provost at Illinois Institute of Technology, will become the first female president of Pratt Institute. She will begin her new role on January 2. Her predecessor, Thomas F. Schutte, stepped down in June after 24 years at the helm.

Jonathan C. Gering, a professor of biology and founding dean of the School of Science and Mathematics at Truman State University, will become president of Bethel College on January 29. He graduated from the college in 1994.

Fletcher Lamkin, president of West Virginia University at Parkersburg, will become president of Westminster College, in Missouri, this year. Mr. Lamkin previously led Westminster from 2000 to 2007. He will succeed Benjamin Ola. Akande, who resigned in August after two years at the helm. Carolyn Perry, senior vice president, is serving as acting leader.

David A. Thomas, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and a former dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, will become president of Morehouse College on January 1. Harold L. Martin Jr. will continue serving as interim president until then.

Retirements

Andrew J. Matonak, president of Hudson Valley Community College since 2005, plans to retire at the end of the academic year.

Gordon F. May, president and chief executive of Baltimore City Community College since 2014, says he will retire next summer.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Rick Herrera, chief technology officer at Texas State Technical College, to vice chancellor and chief integration officer and interim provost for the Harlingen campus.

MaryAnn Janosik, head of school at Stanford Online High School, to interim vice president for academic affairs at Hudson Valley Community College.

Robin Nevling, dean of the nursing division at Eastern Oklahoma State College, to interim vice president for academic affairs.

Cecilia Rokusek, assistant dean for research and innovation at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, to provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Larkin University.

Janet Wansick, vice president for academic affairs at Eastern Oklahoma State College, to vice president for academic affairs at Connors State College.

Resignations

Carolyn Dever, provost and chief academic and budget officer at Dartmouth College for the past four years, is stepping down on November 22. She is returning to a faculty position in the women’s, gender, and sexuality-studies program.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Rosanna Ferro, associate dean at Williams College, to vice president for student affairs and campus life at Ithaca College.

Martin A. Mbugua, assistant vice president for content and communications at Carnegie Mellon University, to vice president for communications and marketing at Skidmore College.

Denton Stargel, vice president for finance and business at St. Peter’s University, to vice president for finance and business at Centenary University.

Vance Valerio, special assistant to the president for enrollment management and student services at Marylhurst University, to interim vice president for enrollment management and student development at Hudson Valley Community College.

Deans

Appointments

Maureen Cuevas, associate professor of social work at Our Lady of the Lake University, to dean of the university’s newly created College of Professional Studies.

Dianne Jemison-Pollard, professor of theater and former chairperson of the department of fine arts at Texas Southern University, to dean of the university’s Honors College.

Maurice Odine, professor and associate dean of the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University, to dean of the School of Communication at Texas Southern University.

Resignations

Rohit Varma, dean of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, resigned after it came to light that he had been formally disciplined by the university following allegations that he sexually harassed a medical researcher while he was a junior professor there in 2003.

Other administrators

Appointments

Lesley A. DeNardis, associate professor and director of the global studies program at Sacred Heart University, to director of the master-of-public-administration program.

Kristina Galligan, senior career adviser and manager of employer relations at DeVry University, to alumni career-development officer at Quinnipiac University.

Stacy Gallin, director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust, to director of the Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Medicine and Health at Misericordia University.

Bill Moos, head of the athletic department at Washington State University, to athletic director at the University of Nebraska.

Elaine M. Neely, head of regulatory compliance at LTT Enterprises, to chief regulatory officer at Post University.

Jackie Rees Ulmer, professor of management-information systems and chair of the supply-chain and information-systems department at Iowa State University’s College of Business, to associate dean of undergraduate programs.

Jing Xiao, professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, to director of the robotics-engineering program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Resignations

Philip Tang has stepped down as vice provost for academic services at Johns Hopkins University, and joined the executive search firm Witt/Kieffer as a consultant in its education practice.

Retirements

Carton Rogers, vice provost and director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, is retiring after 42 years at the institution.

Faculty

Appointments

Sean Hillison, a certified public accountant and senior manager at Ernst & Young’s office in Boca Raton, Fla., to assistant professor in the department of accounting and information systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.

Jordan MacKenzie, who recently completed her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed assistant professor and faculty fellow at the Center for Bioethics at New York University’s College of Global Public Health.

Doris Metz, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and coordinator of the education program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, to assistant professor of education at the University of the Ozarks.

Samantha Paul, a limited-term reference librarian at Valdosta State University’s Odum Library, to assistant professor of library science and reference librarian.

Wenqi Shen, e-commerce operations manager at Virginia Tech, to assistant professor in the department of business information technology at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.

David Wineland, a lecturer in quantum computing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to research professor in the University of Oregon’s department of physics. He won a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his research on ways new types of computers can be built using quantum physics.

Pengfei Ye, visiting assistant professor in the department of finance at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business, to assistant professor.

Retirements

Steven Blank, a professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has retired.

Khidir Hilu, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has become professor emeritus.

Organizations

Appointments

Cassandra Herring, dean-in-residence at Deans for Impact and former dean of the School of Education and Human Development at Hampton University, has been appointed president and chief executive of the Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity. Ms. Herring founded this new organization, which helps train educators at institutions that predominantly serve minority students.

Andrew K. Koch, chief operating officer of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, has been promoted to president. He succeeds one of the co-founders, John N. Gardner, who has become chair and chief executive.

Awards

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education has given its 2017 Campus Sustainability Research Awards to the following writers of six papers on higher-education sustainability:

Katja Brundiers and Arnim Wiek of Arizona State University for “Beyond Interpersonal Competence: Teaching and Learning Professional Skills in Sustainability.”

Elizabeth A. Castner, Allison M. Leach, Neil Leary, Jill Baron, Jana E. Compton, James N. Galloway, Meredith G. Hastings, Jacob Kimiecik, Jonathan Lantz-Trissel, Elizabeth de la Reguera, and Rebecca Ryals for “The Nitrogen Footprint Tool Network: A Multi-Institution Program to Research and Reduce Nitrogen Pollution.”

Danielle Chun of Messiah College for “The Drivers Behind Edible Food Recovery Programs at Institutions of Higher Education.”

Nick Morris of Kent State University for “Relocating Education for Sustainability: From the Campus to the Community.”

Ethan D. Schoolman, Mike Shriberg, Sarah Schwimmer, and Marie Tysman for “Green Cities and Ivory Towers: How Do Higher Education Sustainability Initiatives Shape Millennials’ Consumption Practices?”

Allison K. Wisecup, Dennis Grady, Richard A. Roth, and Julio Stephens of Radford University for “Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Intervention Strategies on Student Electricity use in Campus Residence Halls.”

Deaths

M. Cherif Bassiouni, 79, an Egyptian-American law professor who helped found the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University, where he started teaching in 1964, died on September 25.

Rita (Claire) Callan, a retired Western Michigan University professor and former chair of the department of occupational therapy, died on September 18. She was 87.

Mary Cochran, chairwoman of the dance department at Barnard College from 2003 until 2013, has died. She was 54.

Norman N. Holland, 90, an eminent scholar in English emeritus at the University of Florida and a literary critic, died September 28. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University at Buffalo, as well as the University of Florida, from which he retired in 2008.

Kimberly Kennard, a human-services professor at Modesto Junior College, died on September 26 after contracting the West Nile virus. She was 53.

Neil Joseph Smelser, 87, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, died on October 2. He started at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1958 and remained there until his retirement in 1994.

Alfred C. Stepan, dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs from 1983 until 1991 and the first president and rector of Central European University, died on September 27. He was 81. In 2015, he retired as a professor of political science and government at Columbia, where he was also founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion. He won the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association in 2012.

Rolf Weil, president of Roosevelt University from 1964 to 1988, died on September 17. He was 95. His spent his 42-year academic career at the university, beginning as a professor in economics and finance in 1946.