Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (11/25/2016)

Chief executives

Jonathan Green, provost and dean of the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University since 2011, was named president of Susquehanna University. He will start on July 1.

Laurie Joyner, a former president of Wittenberg University, was appointed president of Saint Xavier University.

Gordon Knox has been named president of the San Francisco Art Institute. Mr. Knox will start his new position on January 23. He is director of the Arizona State University Art Museum.

Richard Myers was appointed president of Kansas State University. Mr. Myers, a retired Air Force general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was named interim president in April.

Richard Midcap, vice president for student affairs at Chesapeake College, was named president of Garrett College.

Juston Pate, provost at Maysville Community and Technical College, will become president of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, was named president of Cornell University. She will start on April 17.

Devin Stephenson, president of Big Sandy Community and Technical College, was appointed president of Northwest Florida State College.

Resignations

William Law will step down as president of St. Petersburg College on July 1. He has led the college since 2010. Previously, he led Tallahassee Community College, Montgomery College, in Houston, and Lincoln Land Community College, in Illinois.

Retirements

B. James Dawson, president of Lincoln Memorial University, will retire at the end of this academic year. He has led the university since 2010 and was previously chief operating officer and chancellor of the university’s main campus, in Harrogate, Tenn.

Steven Gamble, president of Eastern New Mexico University, will retire on July 30. He has led the university since 2001, after serving as president of Southern Arkansas University for nine years.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Karen Aubrey, an associate dean in the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, to vice president for academic affairs at LaGrange College.

Tracy McGrady, dean of academic and student affairs for the Richwood Valley campus, to provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Ozarks Technical Community College.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Lisa McBride was appointed the first vice president for diversity and inclusion at Salem State University. Ms. McBride will join Salem State from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she is chief diversity officer.

Robert Gay, senior vice president at Maguire Associates, to chief operations officer for the American Public University system.

Wayne Guthrie, senior vice president for staff operations at the Arthritis Foundation, to chief human resources officer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Angela Riley, vice president and chief financial officer at Imperial Plastics, to vice president and chief financial officer at St. Catherine University.

Steven Sturman, senior major gifts officer at Valparaiso University, to vice chancellor for university advancement at Indiana University at South Bend.

Deans

Appointments

Jane MacKillop was appointed interim dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Lehman College. She has worked in the City University of New York system for almost 30 years, starting in 1987 as founding director of the Adult Learning Center at Lehman College. Ms. MacKillop was previously associate dean of continuing education at LaGuardia Community College for 10 years.

Rohit Varma will be dean of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He has served as interim dean since March. Mr. Varma is a professor of ophthalmology and preventive medicine. He is published widely in various peer-reviewed ophthalmic journals and has co-authored two books on ophthalmology.

Michael Brown, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Wesleyan College, to academic dean at Housatonic Community College.

Shauna Corry, an associate professor and head of the interior design program, to interim dean for the College of Art and Architecture at the University of Idaho.

Marc Linit, senior associate dean of research and extension, to interim vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Retirements

Lee Kamlet, dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, plans to retire at the end of this academic year. He will have served as dean for six years. Earlier, Mr. Kamlet had a career in television news production.

Other administrators

Appointments

Anthony Ayers, who was senior assistant solicitor general in the New York Solicitor General’s Office, has been hired as director of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. In his previous role, he represented the state in cases involving immigration law, constitutional rights, and environmental law. The Government Law Center does research on state and local governments throughout the United States.

James Leach was appointed interim director of the University of Iowa’s Museum of Art. He is currently a joint visiting professor in the university’s College of Law and department of political affairs. Mr. Leach is a former Iowa congressman and was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013.

Kellie Sauls, who was director of admissions and financial aid in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, has been named executive director of student and alumni affairs in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. During the 16 years she has worked in graduate-management admissions and career services, she has led efforts to increase historically underrepresented student populations and recruit more international students.

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, professor of industrial engineering, to associate dean of academic affairs in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dana Braner, chief of the division of pediatric critical-care medicine and medical director of Doernbecher’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, to chair of the pediatrics department at Oregon Health & Science University.

Brittny Daubenheyer, assistant to the president at Arkansas Tech University, to associate director of recruitment in the Office of Admissions at the University of Central Arkansas.

Tytishia Davis, a counselor at Pitt Community College, to assistant dean and director of the Office of Student Advocacy and Support at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Dayna Durbin, media coordinator and technology facilitator at Durham Public Schools, to undergraduate teaching and learning librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Anton Goff, director of athletics at the University of Hartford, to director of athletics at St. John’s University (N.Y.).

Jeff Lochowicz, senior assistant dean of admissions at Marquette University, to executive director of admissions at Purdue University Northwest.

Mark McGuire, interim director, to director of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Idaho.

Doug Patten, chief medical officer at the Georgia Hospital Association, to campus associate dean of the southwest campus of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Rebecca Smyrl, a book conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, in Philadelphia, to assistant conservator for special collections in the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mary Townsley, a professor of physiology and cell biology, to interim senior associate dean of the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama.

Glenn Wong, professor of practice, to director of the sports law and business program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University at Tempe.

Resignations

Roy Baker, director of Greek Life at West Virginia University.

Retirements

Larry Shuman, senior associate dean of academic affairs in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Faculty

Appointments

Amanda Godley, associate professor of English education and language, literacy, and culture at the University of Pittsburgh, to an additional role, co-editor at the academic journal English Teaching: Practice and Critique.

Leah Johnson, assistant professor of integrative biology at the University of South Florida, to assistant professor of statistics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.

Organizations

Appointments

Mildred Garcia, president of California State University at Fullerton, to an additional role, chair-elect of the board at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, to an additional role, chair of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

Awards

Liz Ann Baez Aguilar, a professor of English at Alamo Colleges, received the 2016 William H. Meardy Faculty Member Award from the Association of Community College Trustees.

Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College and an art historian and advocate, received the 2016 Visionary Woman Award from the Moore College of Art & Design.

Tina Lynn Evans, an associate professor of sustainability studies at Colorado Mountain College, won the 2016 Campus Sustainability Award for Published Research from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education for a journal article about inspiring undergraduate college students to feel hopeful and take action.

Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, president of Creighton University, was honored as a founding member of the first Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit honor society installation in Europe at Universidad Loyola Andalucia, in Spain.

Seth Holmes, an associate professor of medical anthropology and public health at the University of California at Berkeley, was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association for his book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States.

Jane Karas, president of Flathead Valley Community College, received the 2016 Marie Y. Martin Chief Executive Award from the Association of Community College Trustees.

Wilma King, a professor emerita of history at the University of Missouri at Columbia, received the 2016 Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life & History.

Sarah Parcak, an associate professor in the anthropology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will receive a 2016 American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian Magazine in December.

Fellowships

Patrick Reynolds, a professor of biology at Hamilton College (N.Y.), is serving as a fall 2016 faculty fellow at the Center for American Progress through a program of the Washington Internship Institute and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He is working on issues of access, affordability, and accreditation.

Craig Rustici, a professor of English at Hofstra University, is serving as a fall 2016 faculty fellow at the Center for American Progress through a program of the Washington Internship Institute and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He is working on grants to support faculty collaborations on interdisciplinary curricula with common humanities themes.

Marianna Savoca, director of career services at Stony Brook University, is serving as a fall 2016 faculty fellow at the Business-Higher Education Forum through a program of the Washington Internship Institute and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is working on projects aimed at preparing students for the 21st-century workforce.

Deaths

David Adamany, a former president of Temple University, died on November 10. He was 80. Mr. Adamany led Temple from 2000 to 2006. During his tenure, he helped to increase student enrollment, hired more faculty, and raised the university’s admissions standards. After retiring as president, he served as chancellor and as a professor of law and political science.

Dominic Balestra, former professor of philosophy at Fordham University, died on November 8.

Kener Bond Jr., 86, former assistant dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and professor of art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, died on November 6.

H. Mead Cavert, 94, former associate dean of the Medical School and professor of physiology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on November 4 in Minneapolis.

Elouise Powers Connors, 87, former professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, died on November 10.

Sara Eaton, professor emerita of English at North Central College, died on November 11.

Irving Fang, 87, professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on October 5.

Kent Frizzell, 87, professor emeritus at the University of Tulsa, died on October 26.

Jeff Kovatch, 43, associate professor of biology at Marshall University, died on November 5.

Virginia Lester, 85, former president of Mary Baldwin College, died on November 10 in Alexandria, Va.

Stanley McKenzie, provost emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology, died on November 7.

Beulah Ormond, 96, former dean of women and professor of chemistry and mathematics at the University of West Alabama, died on November 2.

Paul Pearson, 95, founding director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died on September 8 in Omaha.

Lloyd Hamilton Ramsey, 95, professor emeritus of medicine at Vanderbilt University, died on October 29 in Nashville.

John Roberts, 98, former provost and professor emeritus of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, died on October 29.

Brian Robinson, 63, former associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, died on October 27 in Orono, Me.

Charles Runnels, chancellor emeritus of Pepperdine University, died on October 25. He was 91. Mr. Runnels served as vice chancellor of the university from 1971 to 1984 and then as chancellor from 1985 until 2006. He was known as a successful fund raiser, a strong supporter of athletics, and as founder of the Youth Citizenship Seminar, a summer program in which high-school students study free enterprise, leadership, freedom, and faith.

Rolf Sabersky, 96, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, died on October 24.

Michael Saenz, 91, founding president of the northwest campus at Tarrant County College, died on November 3.

David Seeley, 85, professor emeritus of business and sociology at New York University, died on October 30.

Stephen Schaefer, former professor of business at Contra Costa College, died on October 13.

Russell Schuh, 75, professor of linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles, died on November 8.

Donald Smith, 66, dean emeritus of the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, died on October 29.

Max Sobel, 92, professor emeritus of mathematics at Montclair State University, died on November 11 in Fair Lawn, N.J.

Richard Steenburg, 91, former director of the kidney-transplant program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died on September 19 in Stuart, Fla.

Edward Thomas Jr., 78, professor of math at the State University of New York at Albany, died on November 1.

Victor Triolo, 84, professor emeritus of information studies at Southern Connecticut State University, died on August 7 in Bridgeport, Conn.

John Waters, a visiting associate professor of art at University of North Alabama, died on November 4.

Darhl Whitlock, 56, a biology lecturer at California State University at Chico, died on November 3.

William Williams, former dean of the College of Medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, died on November 4 in Jamesville, N.Y.

Angela Wingo-Rust, 47, dean of students at Lindenwood University at Belleville, died on October 28.

Jiyuan Yu, a professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, died on November 3. He was 52. A scholar and teacher of ancient Greek philosophy and ancient Chinese philosophy, he was also director of the university’s Confucius Institute.

James Raymond Zosel, 87, a former professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, died on October 20 in Minneapolis.