Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (12/1/2017)

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Appointments

Jay Clune, interim graduate dean at the University of West Florida, will become president of Nicholls State University, in Louisiana, on January 1. His predecessor, Bruce T. Murphy, will step down at the end of the year.

William R. Groves, a lawyer and interim chancellor of Antioch University since April 2016, was named chancellor on a permanent basis. He joined the university in 2010, when he was hired to form the office of general counsel.

Roger A. Ramsammy, a former president of the West Campus of Miami Dade College, will become president of Hudson Valley Community College. The current chief executive, Drew Matonak, will retire in August 2018, after 13 years in the job.

Resignations

Joseph M. Stowell, president at Cornerstone University, will step down in May 2019 and then serve as chancellor. He has been president since 2008.

Retirements

Robert W. Kustra, president at Boise State University since 2003, will retire on June 30.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Remylin Bruder, dean of the School of Nursing at Rochester College, to provost.

Andreas Cangellaris, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Resignations

John P. Pelissero, provost and chief academic officer at Loyola University Chicago, will take a leave of absence starting January 1. He will step down as provost on June 30 and return as a professor of political science for the 2018-19 academic year. He has served as provost since 2010, aside from the 2015-16 academic year, when he was the university’s interim president.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Keith Champagne, chief diversity officer for intercollegiate athletics at Central Washington University, to vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

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Zillah M. Fluker, vice president for institutional advancement at Alabama State University, to vice president for institutional advancement at Miles College.

Henry T. Foreman, acting chief of staff at Appalachian State University, to permanent chief of staff and vice chancellor.

Thomas Modero, senior director for human-resources strategy and solutions at New York University, to chief human-resources officer at Touro College and University System.

Deans

Appointments

Jon E. Cawthorne, dean of libraries at West Virginia University, to dean of the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science and the University Libraries.

James Douthit, associate vice president for academic affairs at Nazareth College, to dean of the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University.

Daniel Jay, professor of developmental, molecular, and chemical biology in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, as well as an adjunct professor of drawing and painting in university’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, to dean of the Sackler School.

James Maxwell, chair of the management department and a professor at Sullivan University, to dean of Lincoln Memorial University’s School of Business and a professor of management there.

Troy Richards, interim associate dean of the arts of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware, to dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Janet L. Rovenpor, a professor and former chair of the management and marketing department at Manhattan College, to interim dean of the School of Business at Manhattan College.

Todd Shiver, chair of the department of music at Central Washington University, to interim dean of the university’s College of Arts and Humanities.

Department chairs

Appointments

The Rev. Steve Bowersox, executive pastor of worship at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., to chair of the department of worship at the University of Mobile.

Christopher Lance Coleman, an associate professor and director of the Health Equity Collaborative at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, to professor and chair of the department of health promotion and disease prevention at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing.

Steve Holbrook, a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Wyoming, to head of the department of geosciences in Virginia Tech’s College of Science.

Frances J. Richmond, a professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, to chair of the new department of regulatory and quality sciences.

Other administrators

Appointments

Tom Addonizio, vice president for the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at New England College, to assistant dean of communications and marketing at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Nelly Alvarado, interim director of enrollment services at Compton College, to permanent status in that role.

Valerie Carson Benjamin, senior vice president for human resources at EarthLink, to assistant dean of human resources at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Marie Byrd, associate director of the School of Education’s Initial Teacher Preparation Program at the University of South Florida-Sarasota/Manatee, to director of the school.

Ramona Denby-Brinson, senior resident scholar of social services in the Lincy Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, to associate dean of research and professor in the College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University.

Steven Haigler, director of accounting for the Compton Community College District, to chief business officer.

Stephanie Henning, registrar at Central College, to registrar at Rollins College.

Jessica Mann, associate dean of student engagement and deputy Title IX coordinator at Seton Hill University, to director of the Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research at Duquesne University.

Patrice Bell Mercadel, public information officer at Transdev, to chief marketing and communications officer at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Isaac Moore, senior assistant director of alumni relations for Bucknell University, to director of alumni engagement for the division of advancement at Winston-Salem State University.

Kate Morgan, a judicial law clerk at the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals, to assistant director of academic success at the Mississippi College School of Law.

James Nelson, director of software development at Park University, to associate vice president for information technology services.

Chandra Orrill, an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, to director of the university’s Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education.

Tad Renner, a trainer in the use of computer software at the Digital Workshop and former chief operating officer at Laser Plus, to managing director of the S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College.

Adrian Rodriguez, vice president for student-development services for the Trinity River Campus at Tarrant County College, to associate vice president for student life of diversity and multicultural student affairs at Kansas State University.

Frank Wilczek, a professor of physics at Arizona State University, to founding director of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in Shanghai, China.

Yang Yang, a Dow AgroSciences research scientist, to director of digital phenomics at Purdue University, effective January 3.

Helmut Zarbl, a professor of environmental and occupational health at Rutgers University’s School of Public Health, to director of the university’s Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute.

Faculty

Appointments

John Robinson, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, to professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island.

Rodrigo Valenzuela, a photographer, painter, and videographer in Los Angeles, to assistant professor of art at the University of California at Los Angeles School of the Arts and Architecture.

William Van Nostrand, a professor of neurosurgery at Stony Brook University, to professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical science and neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island.

Retirements

Charles Arntzen, a professor of life sciences who was founding director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has retired and become professor emeritus. His specialty is plant molecular biology and protein engineering.

Awards

Ellen S. Podgor, professor of law at Stetson University, received the American Bar Association’s Raeder-Taslitz Award. The award recognizes a law professor who exemplifies ethical conduct, excels in scholarship and teaching, and promotes public understanding of criminal justice.

Eduardo J. Padrón, president at Miami Dade College, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, in recognition of his leadership and contributions to higher education.

Tracy K. Smith, director of the creative-writing program at Princeton University, was named U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2017-18 by the Library of Congress.

Deaths

Mary Edmonds, former vice provost for student affairs at Stanford University, died on October 11. She was 85. Before joining Stanford, Ms. Edmonds held administrative posts at Bowling Green State University and Cleveland State University.

Sul Kassicieh, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico who was known for his promotion of entrepreneurship, died of cancer October 18. He was 65.

Arjay Miller, dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 1969 to 1979, died on November 3. He was 101. Before his appointment at Stanford, Mr. Miller was president of Ford Motor Company from 1963 to 1968.

Emile R. Mohler III, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who specialized in cardiology and vascular medicine, died from Lou Gehrig’s disease on October 13. He was 56. He was one of two people named Master Clinicians of the Year by the Society of Vascular Medicine this year.

Haskell Moorman Monroe Jr., chancellor of the University of Missouri at Columbia from 1987 to 1991, died on November 13. He was 86. Before joining Missouri, Mr. Monroe Jr. served as president at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1980 to 1987.

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