Compiled by Brianna Tucker and M.J. PrestDecember 3, 2017
Keith L. Ross will become president of Missouri Baptist U.
Chief executiveS
Appointments
Melissa Gonzalez, vice chancellor and chief of staff at Houston Community College, became interim president at Houston Community College’s Southeast College on December 1.
James M. Rankin, vice provost for research and innovation at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, will become president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology on January 8. Jan A. Puszynski has served as interim president since May. The previous president, Heather Wilson, was appointed secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
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Keith L. Ross will become president of Missouri Baptist U.
Chief executiveS
Appointments
Melissa Gonzalez, vice chancellor and chief of staff at Houston Community College, became interim president at Houston Community College’s Southeast College on December 1.
James M. Rankin, vice provost for research and innovation at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, will become president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology on January 8. Jan A. Puszynski has served as interim president since May. The previous president, Heather Wilson, was appointed secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
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Keith L. Ross, senior vice president for university advancement at Missouri Baptist University and a university alumnus, will become president on January 10. He will succeed Richard Alton Lacey, who has served as president since 1995.
Jared D. Seliger, associate chancellor, director of the nuclear-medicine-technology program, and associate professor on the health-sciences faculty at Allen College, will become president on January 2. He will succeed Jerry D. Durham, who has served as chancellor since 2005 and will become chancellor emeritus.
Resignations
James B. Milliken, chancellor at City University of New York since 2014, will step down from that post at the end of the academic year. In March, Mr. Milliken disclosed he had been diagnosed with a highly curable form of throat cancer, and he has been treated for the illness.
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Chief academic officers
Appointments
Margaret Kasimatis, vice provost for strategic planning and educational effectiveness at Loyola Marymount University, to provost and vice president for academic affairs at Saint Mary’s College of California, effective February 1.
Other top administrators
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Appointments
Brent Colburn, vice president for communications at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization, to vice president for communications and public affairs at Princeton University.
Rita P. Colucci, chief of staff, general counsel, and secretary to the Board of Trustees at Framingham State University, to general counsel at Salem State University.
Timothy W. Gordon
Timothy W. Gordon, former dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, to vice president for student affairs at Buffalo State College, effective February 1.
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Tim Hager, chief operating officer of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, to vice president and dean of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary at Evangel University.
Deborah Price Hall, vice president for business and finance at Brevard College, to vice president for finance and operations at LaGrange College.
Wendy Hind, associate professor and director of law, politics, and society at Doane University at Crete, to vice president for university affairs at the University of Nebraska.
Kevin McGinnis, executive director of risk management and employee benefits for the Texas A&M University system, to chief risk and compliance officer at Texas A&M University at College Station.
Nancy Morrison O’Connor, a retired partner of the law firm Bracewell LLP and an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, to general counsel at the Catholic University of America.
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Jason Rivera, dean of the sophomore class and director of the Intercultural Center at Swarthmore College, to vice chancellor for student academic success at Rutgers University at Camden.
Retirements
Scott Biddy, vice chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley, retired at the end of November.
Janice Doyle, chief of staff to the chancellor and secretary to the Board of Regents at the University System of Maryland since 2006, will step down from those roles on December 31. She will formally retire on March 31, after helping with the transition.
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Deans
Appointments
Tyson Beale, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs at Fayetteville State University, to dean of students at the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
Deborah J. Jones, associate dean of professional development and faculty affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, to senior vice president and dean of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing.
Sarah-Jane Leslie, vice dean of faculty development and a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, to dean of its Graduate School.
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Nathan Murata, professor and graduate chair of the department of kinesiology and rehabilitation science in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, to dean of the college.
John Murphy, intern principal for Coral Springs High School, to dean of students for the North Campus of Broward College.
Patricia Okker
Patricia Okker, interim dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri at Columbia, to permanent status in that role.
William Soto, chairperson of the world-languages department at Miami Dade College, to dean of students for the Judson A. Samuels South Campus of Broward College.
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Helen Wussow, former dean of the College of Continuing Education at California State University at Sacramento, to dean and senior vice president of Open Campus at New School, effective in March. Open Campus is the university’s center for executive, continuing, and precollege education.
Retirements
Ted Hoef, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Webster University since 1995, will retire at the end of this month.
Department chairs
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Appointments
Joe Fig, a documentarian and painter, to head of the fine-arts and visual-studies department at Ringling College of Art and Design.
Matthew Holt, a professor and former head of the department of economics, finance, and legal studies at the University of Alabama, to head of the department of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Jan Lemon, a professor of counseling at Mississippi College, to chair of the psychology and counseling department.
Laura R. Severin, professor of English and women’s studies, and special assistant to the provost at North Carolina State University, to head of the English department, effective January 1.
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Other administrators
Appointments
Robert E. Guldberg, executive director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and a professor in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, to executive director of the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon.
Dale C. Hedding, vice president for revenue-enhancement practice at the Arts Consulting Group, to managing director of external affairs and patron engagement at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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Craig Levins, director of accessibility resources at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, to district director of disability services at Broward College.
Kevin McConic, manager of education and community relations with United Supermarkets, to executive director of South Plains College’s Lubbock Center.
Eunjoo Pacifici, assistant professor of regulatory and quality sciences at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, to director of the university’s International Center for Regulatory Science.
Paula Popeo, assistant vice chancellor for leadership and capital giving at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, to executive director of development at Bristol Community College.
Karyn Scissum Gunn, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alabama State University, to associate vice president for academic operations for the Division of Academic Affairs at California State University at Fullerton.
Kim Waddell, senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to director of the Virgin Islands Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research at the University of the Virgin Islands.
Katrina Wade-Golden, director of implementation for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan, to an additional role as deputy chief diversity officer.
Resignations
Teresa Paulsen, chief communication and marketing officer at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, has resigned.
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Steve Smith, news director at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, has resigned.
Faculty
Appointments
David B. Abrams, executive director of the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, to professor of social and behavioral sciences at New York University’s College of Global Public Health.
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Matthew Desmond, associate professor of social sciences and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, to professor of sociology at Princeton University.
Isla Hansen, visiting artist in residence at the University of California at Los Angeles Game Lab, to assistant professor of design media arts at the university’s School of the Arts and Architecture.
Raymond S. Niaura, director of science and training at the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, to professor of social and behavioral sciences at New York University’s College of Global Public Health.
Rachel Posey, pharmacy librarian and coordinator of systematic review services for the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to health and life-sciences research librarian and associate director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University.
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Deaths
Robert Cannon, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, died on August 15. He was 93. Mr. Cannon helped develop a spinning gyroscope that successfully tested Einstein’s theory of relativity, and served as chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1968.
Bob Glim, former professor and assistant dean of the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at California State University at Fresno, died on November 11. He was 101. Mr. Glim began teaching at the university in 1948 and retired in 1979.
Charles Kruger, former vice provost and dean of research and graduate policy at Stanford University, died on November 20. He was 83. Mr. Kruger joined Stanford as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1962, and retired in 2003.
Vera Shlakman, a professor emerita in the School of Social Work at Columbia University who lost her job as an economics professor at City University of New York Queens College during the Red scare, died on November 5. She was 108. A New York Times obituary says Ms. Shlakman was the last survivor among more than a dozen professors from New York City’s public colleges who were fired after refusing to answer a Senate subcommittee’s questions about any ties to the Communist Party.
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Correction (1/20/2018, 11:52 a.m.): The listing of Kevin McGinnis’s appointment as chief risk and compliance officer should have specified that his new job was at Texas A&M University at College Station, not the system, and should have been listed under “Other top administrators” because it is a cabinet-level position. The item has been corrected.