Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (11/10/2017)

Chief executives

Appointments

Ernest Baptiste, chief executive of NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, will become chief executive of Stony Brook University Hospital on November 27. That post is now filled by L. Reuven Pasternak, who is also vice president for health systems at Stony Brook and who will retain his vice presidential role.

Lisa C. Freeman, executive vice president and provost at Northern Illinois University, became acting president there in July. She stepped in for Doug Baker, who resigned in June after a state investigation concluded that he had mismanaged spending.

Jerry L. Hardee, former special assistant to the president at Life University and former president of Sherman College of Chiropractic, became president of Paine College in June.

Steven E. Johnson, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Texas Association of Community Colleges, became chancellor of Western Governors University Texas in September. He succeeds Veronica Vargas Stidvent, who stepped down to concentrate on being a public-policy consultant.

Matt Lucas, provost and executive vice president at Corban University, became chancellor of Indiana Wesleyan University’s National and Global Campus in October. He succeeds Audrey Hahn, who was planning to retire by the end of the year.

Laura Monks, interim president at Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Shelbyville, became permanent president on November 1. Previously, she served as assistant director for the college’s programs and operations.

Steven P. O’Day, vice president for strategic initiatives and secretary of Lebanon Valley College, became president of Austin College on October 30. Michael Imhoff had served as interim president.

Matt Rodgers, principal at Enterprise High School, in Alabama, became president of Enterprise State Community College, on September 1. The university had been without a full-time president for three years.

Resignations

Livingston Alexander, president of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and Titusville since 2003, will step down from the post on June 30, 2018.

Amanda Lee, president of Cape Fear Community College since 2015, will resign, effective December 31. The college’s executive vice president, James P. Morton, will serve as interim president.

William Mann, president of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota since 2008, will step down from his post in May 2018.

Retirements

Joe Robertson, president of Oregon Health & Science University since 2006, officially retired on October 31, but he offered to continue leading the institution while drawing retirement benefits during the search for a successor. The university’s Board of Directors appointed him to serve until the end of the academic year. In September, Dr. Robertson disclosed that he had been diagnosed with a mild form of multiple sclerosis.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Randy Burd, professor of nutritional sciences and associate vice president for global research alliances at the University of Arizona, to senior vice president for academic affairs at Long Island University.

H. Dele Davies, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean for graduate studies.

Tena L. Golding, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southeastern Louisiana University since June 2016, to permanent status in that role.

Kendall T. Harris, dean of the College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, to provost and vice president for academic affairs at Texas Southern University, effective January 1.

Cynthia K. Larive, interim provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California at Riverside, to permanent status in that role.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Steven J. Bennett, vice president and chief operating officer at the Brookings Institution, to senior vice president for academic operations at Syracuse University.

Laurie F. Dorf, interim vice president for institutional advancement and alumni relations at City University of New York Queens College, to permanent status in that role.

Michael Green, interim vice president for finance and administration at Oregon State University, to permanent status in that role.

J. Brooks Jackson, vice president for health sciences and dean of the medical school at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, to vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

Keith Jenkins, interim vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to permanent status in those roles.

Donald Leuenberger, special assistant to the chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to an additional role, interim vice chancellor for business, finance, and economic development.

David Robinson, associate campus counsel for the office of legal affairs at the University of California at Berkeley, to interim chief campus counsel. The previous chief campus counsel, Christopher Patti, was killed in a bicycle accident in August.

Daniel J. Shipp, vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, to vice chancellor for student services at the university and vice chancellor for student success in academic affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Deans

Appointments

Jeffrey Gibbs, senior administrative leader at Florida Southwestern State College’s Hendry-Glades Center in Fort Myers, to dean of the Oviedo campus of Seminole State College of Florida.

Stephan Graham, professor of geological sciences and former senior associate dean for faculty affairs in the School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University, to dean of the school.

Kathy Sheppard, interim dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Mobile, to permanent status in that role.

Angela Spalsbury, professor and chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at Youngstown State University, to dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University-Geauga and Kent State’s Regional Academic Center, effective January 1.

James R. Whitley, assistant dean and campus director for the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at the Boston campus of Springfield College, to dean of the John P. Burke School of Public Service and Education at Post University.

Resignations

Ann Arvin, vice provost and dean of research at Stanford University since 2006, will step down in the fall of 2018. She will return to teaching as a professor of pediatrics, and of microbiology and immunology.

Larry E. Davis, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh main campus since 2001, will step down as dean at the end of the academic year and assume a still-to-be-defined role at the university. He was founding director of the university’s Center for Race and Social Problems.

Richard Saller, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University since 2007, says he will step down on September 1, 2018. He plans to return to teaching there full time.

Retirements

Judith Miller, dean of the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing since 2008, will retire at the end of this semester.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Katherine Bearden, assistant provost for institutional research, to associate provost for institutional research, registration, and records at Centenary College of Louisiana.

Mark Biddinger, director of financial planning and analysis at Cedarville University, to senior director of finance and treasury at Southeastern University, in Florida.

Erin Delffs, associate vice president for finance at St. Edward’s University, to assistant vice president for business and finance at Capital University.

Jean Driscoll, senior director of development for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to executive director of development of North Carolina State University’s College of Design.

Catherine Dumond, P-16 director for Houston Community College, who coordinated dual-credit programming with Houston high schools, to associate dean of student success and engagement at the community college’s Southwest College.

Fenimore Fisher, deputy commissioner and chief diversity officer for the City of New York, to vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the Johns Hopkins University.

Patrick Griffin, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, to director of the university’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Rachel Jones Bonikowski, director of events at the KCI Expo Center, in Kansas City, Mo., to manager of special events at Park University.

Gena Jones, instructor in human-resources management, leadership, and human relations at Texas Tech University, to assistant vice president for human-resource services at New Mexico State University.

Julie Jordan, director of Mississippi State University’s Research and Curriculum Unit for Workforce Development, Vocational, and Technical Education, was named interim associate vice president for international programs and interim executive director of the university’s international institute.

David Link, retired senior executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Sanford Health, to program manager for the Dakota State University Rising initiative, an effort to spend a $30-million donation on new cybersecurity research facilities, program development, and the hiring of additional faculty and staff members.

Kenneth J. Malagiere, owner of Narcissus Florals and a former member of the Ocean County College Foundation Board of Trustees, to executive director of the foundation.

Kerry Peluso, associate vice president for research administration at Emory University, to assistant vice president for research administration and finance at Florida State University, effective December 11.

Dusty Schnieders, chief of staff to the Republican president pro tem of the Missouri Senate, to director of government relations for the University of Missouri system.

Shih-Lung Shaw, a geography professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to interim associate provost and director of the university’s Center for International Education.

Eric Wirth, assistant dean of admissions for the School for International Training’s study abroad, to associate dean of admissions for the institution.

Organizations

Appointments

Stephanie Hampton, director of Washington State University’s Center for Environmental Research Education and Outreach, was named chair of the National Science Foundation’s biological-sciences advisory committee.

Ramayya Krishnan, dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected as president of the Board of Directors at INFORMS, an international association of operations-research and analytics professionals and students.

Jamienne S. Studley, deputy under secretary and acting assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education from 2013 to 2016, will become president of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (formerly known as the Western Association of Schools and Colleges’ Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities) in January. She will succeed Mary Ellen Petrisko, who has led the commission since 2013.

Harry Williams, president of Delaware State University since 2009, has been named president and chief executive of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He will succeed Johnny C. Taylor Jr., who led the fund for seven years.

Deaths

Howard Cinnamon, 69, a professor of music and former chair of the music department at Hofstra University, died on October 22. He had served as interim director of the university’s symphony orchestra, and organizer and conductor of its chamber orchestra.

Von Russel Eshleman, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University and a 1981 recipient of the NASA Scientific Achievement Medal, died on September 22 in Palo Alto. He was 93.

Richard Merrill, dean of the School of Law at the University of Virginia from 1980 to 1988, died on October 26 from Parkinson’s disease. He was 80. He served on the university’s faculty for 38 years.

Scott R. Smedley, 54, a professor of biology at Trinity College, in Connecticut, died on October 10, after a battle with cancer.

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