Compiled by Brianna A. Tucker and Ruth HammondJanuary 28, 2018
Jacqueline Screws will become president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College, in Alabama.
Chief executives
Appointments
Marion Fedrick, interim executive vice president at Albany State University, will become interim president of the university on February 1. She replaces Arthur Dunning, who planned to retire on January 31.
Greg Thornton, senior vice president of media at Moody Bible Institute, became interim president.
Jacqueline Screws, dean of student affairs at George C. Wallace Community College at Dothan, in Alabama, and of the college’s Sparks campus, will become president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College, in Alabama, on February 1. The college has not had a permanent president since 2014, when D. Glen Cannon left to lead Gwinnett Technical College.
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Jacqueline Screws will become president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College, in Alabama.
Chief executives
Appointments
Marion Fedrick, interim executive vice president at Albany State University, will become interim president of the university on February 1. She replaces Arthur Dunning, who planned to retire on January 31.
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Greg Thornton, senior vice president of media at Moody Bible Institute, became interim president.
Jacqueline Screws, dean of student affairs at George C. Wallace Community College at Dothan, in Alabama, and of the college’s Sparks campus, will become president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College, in Alabama, on February 1. The college has not had a permanent president since 2014, when D. Glen Cannon left to lead Gwinnett Technical College.
Bill Starling, vice president for academic affairs and administration at Sampson Community College, will become president there. He will assume the top post after the departure of Paul Hutchins, who is expected to step down when his contract ends in June or earlier.
Ruth V. Watkins, senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Utah, will become the university’s president sometime this spring. She will be the institution’s first female leader. Ms. Watkins will succeed David W. Pershing, who plans to return to the faculty.
Resignations
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J. Paul Nyquist, president of Moody Bible Institute since 2009, has resigned.
Retirements
James T. Rizzuto, president of Otero Junior College since 2001, plans to retire on July 31.
Chief academic officers
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Appointments
Jonathan Dryden interim provost and vice president for academic and learner services at Lorain County Community College, to permanent status in those roles.
Jeremy Haefner, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Denver, effective July 15.
Nicole Reaves, vice president for academic and student affairs at City Colleges of Chicago’s Wilbur Wright College, to provost of the Medical Education Campus at Northern Virginia Community College.
Resignations
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Patricia E. Beeson, provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh since 2010, will step down from her administrative role and return to the university’s economics faculty in the fall of 2018.
Retirements
Junias Venugopal, provost at Moody Bible Institute, has retired.
Other top administrators
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Appointments
James H. Ammons, professor of political science and former president of Florida A&M University, to executive vice president in the Southern University system’s office and executive vice chancellor on the Baton Rouge campus
Charlotte G. Burgess, vice president and dean of student life at the University of Redlands, to dean emerita and vice president for external affairs, effective last July.
Nicholas A. Chiaravalloti, director of community engagement and a fellow at Saint Peter’s University, to vice president for planning and development and assistant to the president at Hudson County Community College.
Andrea Gunn Eaton, assistant vice chancellor and chief counsel for business and finance at California State University, and university counsel on the Dominguez Hills campus, to chief campus counsel at the University of California at Irvine.
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Philip Ellmore, chief development officer and executive director of the Stockton University Foundation, to vice chancellor for institutional advancement at Rutgers University at Camden and vice president for Camden advancement at the Rutgers University Foundation.
Ann-Marie Gabel
Ann-Marie Gabel, executive vice president for finance, facilities, and technology services at Long Beach City College, to vice chancellor for business services for the South Orange County Community College District.
William Gorman, founding managing director of the fund-raising consulting firm GP Catholic Services, a division of Graham-Pelton Consulting, to chief operating officer at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Charles L. Greene II, director of communications and marketing at St. Mark’s School, a boarding school in Massachusetts, to vice president for communications and marketing at Mount Holyoke College.
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Dino Hernandez, vice president for advancement at Notre Dame de Namur University, to vice president for advancement at Metropolitan State University of Denver and executive director of the MSU Denver Foundation.
Sabrina Johnson, associate vice president for human resources at the University of Mary Washington, to vice president for equity and access, and chief diversity officer.
Thomas Lause, retired vice president and treasurer of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., to vice president for business affairs, chief financial officer, and treasurer at the University of Findlay.
Vern L. Lindquist
Vern L. Lindquist, dean of faculty and chief academic officer at Richard Bland College, to vice president for academic services at Lincoln Land Community College.
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Calandra D. Lockhart, assistant vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Division of Education at Wiley College, was named vice president for academic affairs at Manor College.
Kevin McGinnis, executive director of risk management and employee benefits in the Texas A&M University system, to chief risk/compliance officer at Texas A&M University at College Station. (This corrects a Gazette item in the December 8, 2017, issue of The Chronicle that failed to note that the new appointment was on the system’s main campus.)
Robert L. Megna, senior vice president for finance and administration at Stony Brook University, to senior vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the State University of New York.
Lawrence J. Morris, general counsel at the Catholic University of America, to chief of staff and counselor to the university’s president.
Kathleen Murphy-Moriarty, director of communications and marketing at Norwich University, to vice president for communications.
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John Parker, founder and owner of TBL Business Solutions and a former president of Brown Mackie College at Oklahoma City, to vice president for finance and administration at Rivier University.
Jonathan Pruitt, former chief financial officer in the University of North Carolina system, to vice chancellor for finance and operations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Geoffrey M. Roche, director of legislative affairs at the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, to vice president for strategic initiatives and secretary to the board at Lebanon Valley College.
Stefanie Tompkins, acting deputy director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines.
Eric Turner, an independent management consultant, to vice president for graduate and professional studies at Lasell College.
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Marie Williams, senior vice president at Edelman, a communications and marketing firm, to chief marketing and communications officer at Saint Joseph’s University, in Philadelphia.
Resignations
Steve Mogck, chief operating officer at Moody Bible Institute, has resigned.
Tamara E. Rogers, vice president for alumni affairs and development at Harvard University, will step down by the end of the calendar year.
Retirements
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Joseph D. Sansone, vice president for planning and development and assistant to the president at Hudson County Community College, will retire on February 28.
Deans
Appointments
Katy Matich Ro, director of education at Hussian College, to dean at Delaware College of Art and Design.
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Patrice Gilliam-Johnson, secretary of labor for the State of Delaware, to dean of graduate, adult, and continuing studies at Delaware State University.
James A. Goodrich, dean of the College of Business and Economics at California State University at Los Angeles, to dean of the College of Business at Pacific University, effective last July.
M. Scott Herness, interim vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the Graduate School at Ohio State University, to vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School at Montclair State University, effective March 19.
Kim Dupree Jones, professor of nursing and medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, to dean of the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing at Linfield College.
Rami Maysami, dean of the College of Business at Jackson State University, to dean of the College of Business and Economics at California State University at Los Angeles.
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Pamela Buchanan Miller, director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of Mobile, to dean of the university’s Alabama College for Professional and Continuing Studies.
Dayle M. Smith, dean of the David D. Reh School of Business at Clarkson University, in New York, to dean of the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University, in California, effective June 1.
André-Denis Girard Wright, director of the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona, to dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University, effective June 1.
Resignations
Stefano Bertozzi, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, will step down on July 1.
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Department chairs
Appointments
Douglas Jordan, professor of finance at Sonoma State University, to chair of the university’s department of business administration.
Sally A. Moody, interim chair of the department of anatomy and regenerative biology in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to permanent status in that role.
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Other administrators
Appointments
Shawn Ahearn, director of marketing and communications for the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus, to director of communications and marketing at the University of South Florida-Sarasota/Manatee.
Michael Barker, chief executive and owner of the information-technology consulting firm C4 Group Inc., to director of the new TSYS Center for Cybersecurity at Columbus State University.
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Jason Berthon-Koch, interim chief of police at Central Washington University, to chief of police and director of public safety for the university’s Police and Parking Services.
Lisa Carstens, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Pacific University, to vice provost for academic affairs.
Dan Coleman, associate director of planned giving and major gifts officer for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to director of development at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Theresa Curry, assistant vice president for gift planning and administration at the University of New Hampshire Foundation, to executive director of planned giving at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Capt. Allen (Joe) Curtis, operations manager for Western Bulk Chartering, a global operator of dry bulk vessels, in Seattle, to director of career services and cooperative education at Maine Maritime Academy.
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XinQi Dong, professor of medicine, nursing, and behavioral sciences at the Rush University Medical Center, and associate director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, to director of Rutgers University’s Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, and professor of population health sciences at Rutgers, effective April 1.
Paul DuongTran, chair of the social-work department at Indiana State University, to director of the master-of-social-work program at Pacific University’s campus in Eugene, Ore.
David Greenman, executive director of the King Urban Life Center, in Buffalo, N.Y., to associate vice president for institutional advancement at Niagara University.
Lindsay Hamilton, chief of staff and a vice president at the Center for American Progress, to chief spokesperson and executive director of media relations at George Washington University.
Mark Jirik, a manager at Cargill, to director of the Northern Crops Institute at North Dakota State University.
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Caleb J. Keith, director of institutional effectiveness at University of the Ozarks, to assistant provost for institutional effectiveness and strategic priorities.
Jeff Konya, athletics director at Oakland University, to director of athletics and recreation at Northeastern University
Michelle Larkins, recipient of a doctorate in community sustainability from Michigan State University and a former gender researcher for the U.S. Agency for International Development Global Center for Food Systems Innovation, housed at the university, to director of the Center for a Sustainable Society at Pacific University.
James L. Lemons, dean of the Business and Allied Health Division at Central Virginia Community College, to associate vice president for work-force, business, and allied health at the college.
Lalaine Bangilan Little
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Lalaine Bangilan Little, museum educator for the pre-kindergarten to 12th-grade programs at the Allentown Museum of Art, in Pennsylvania, to director of the Pauly Friedman and MacDonald Art Galleries at Misericordia University.
Dan Presson, coordinator of employer relations in Career Services at Southeast Missouri State University, to director of the university’s Career Services.
Randle Reed, community-impact associate at United Way of Delaware, to director of community programs at the Delaware College of Art and Design.
Narcedalia Rodriguez, dean of student development at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus, to executive director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Pacific University, effective last July.
D. Eric Saul, executive director of Sodat-Delaware, a substance-abuse treatment agency, to director of finance and operations at Delaware College of Art and Design.
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Norihisa Shigemura, director of the Integrated Lung Transplant Research Program and surgical associate director of the Lung Transplant Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, to surgical director of lung failure and of lung transplantation at Temple University Hospital, and associate professor of surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Robert Simari, interim executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and executive dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, to permanent status in the executive vice chancellor’s role.
Josh Thiel, senior associate athletics director and chief development officer at Rice University, to deputy athletics director for athletics advancement at San Jose State University.
Angela Vowells, controller for Interstate Imaging, Crescent City Security, Vendair Vending, in Evansville, Ind., to bursar of the University of Southern Indiana.
Whitney Watkins, a former graduate assistant at the University of Central Florida and recipient of a doctorate in education there, to director of the Upward Bound program at Rollins College.
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Jennifer Yruegas, vice president, corporate secretary, and general counsel at Viewpoint Inc., in Portland, Ore., to director of human resources and legal affairs at Pacific University.
Resignations
Anthony Carter stepped down as chief of police at the University of Cincinnati in November after less than a year and a half in the role. He was expected to move into a temporary research role in the university’s Institute of Crime Science.
Faculty
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Appointments
Dominic Belmonte, chief executive emeritus of the Golden Apple Foundation, a teacher-preparation and mentoring program, to professor of practice in the National College of Education at National Louis University.
Mary Dockter
Mary Dockter, professor and chair of the department of physical therapy at the University of Mary, was named senior editor of the Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy.
Jeanne Gang, founding principal of the architecture and urban-design firm Studio Gang, to professor in practice of architecture in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Myoungock (Mio) Jang, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University School of Nursing, to assistant professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Sharon Johnston, co-founder and principal of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, to professor in practice of architecture in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Ali Khademhosseini, a professor in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, to professor of bioengineering, radiology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, and director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mark Lee, co-founder and principal of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, to professor in practice of architecture in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Kristen Pecanac, postdoctoral fellow at William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, in Madison, Wis., to assistant professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Rachael 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 Libraries.
Denise Young Smith, former vice president for inclusion and diversity at Apple, to executive in residence at Cornell Tech.
Traci Snedden, a postdoctoral fellow dually appointed to the Schools of Nursing and of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, to assistant professor of nursing at the university.
Kim Whitmore, director of the Graduate Health Systems Management program at Loyola University Chicago and recipient of a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in May 2017, to assistant professor of nursing and affiliate faculty member in the public-health program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Delcianna Winders, vice president and deputy general counsel for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Foundation, to an additional role as a visiting scholar at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law.
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Organizations
Appointments
Richard Badenhausen, founding dean of the Honors College at Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, is the 2018 president-elect of the National Collegiate Honors Council. He will lead the group in 2019.
Clayton Christian, Montana’s commissioner of higher education, was elected chair of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
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Jason A. Grissom
Jason A. Grissom, associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, was named faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research-practice-policy partnership between the university’s Peabody College of education and human development, and the Tennessee Department of Education.
Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College since 2006, will become warden and chief executive of the Rhodes Trust in August. She will be the first female warden of the trust, which manages the Rhodes scholarship program at the University of Oxford.
Naomi Yavneh Klos, director of the University Honors Program at Loyola University New Orleans, is the 2018 president of the National Collegiate Honors Council.
Kathy McNeill, principal and chief technology officer at Solutions Consulting, a technology advisory firm, was named chief enterprise architect at the National Student Clearinghouse, an organization for student-data reporting and exchange.
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Sarah Pfatteicher, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and a research professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become executive director of Five Colleges Inc. on April 23. She will succeed Neal Abraham, who is retiring after nine years of leading the consortium, which represents Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Manfred Philipp, executive director of the City University of New York Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and secretary of the Fulbright Association, became president of the Fulbright Association’s Board of Directors in January. Mr. Philipp is a professor emeritus of chemistry at CUNY’s Herbert H. Lehman College and of biochemistry and chemistry at CUNY Graduate Center.
Esther Sternberg, director of research at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, has been appointed chair of the National Library of Medicine’s Board of Regents.
Retirements
Matthew P. Scott, who was president of the Carnegie Institution for Science since 2014, retired in December.
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Awards
Future Leaders Award
The Association of American Colleges & Universities named the following Ph.D. candidates as the 2018 recipients of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The honor is given to graduate students whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning, and who are planning a career in higher education.
Alexandra B. Reznik, English literature, Duquesne University
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Tony J. Cunningham, clinical psychology, University of Notre Dame
Kelsey Melinda Boyle, chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Arianna I. Celis Luna, biochemistry, Montana State University
Anahid Ebrahimi, mechanical engineering, University of Delaware
Darla Ida Himeles, American literature, Temple University
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Rishi R. Masalia, plant biology, University of Georgia
Other awards
Louis J. Lanzerotti, a research professor of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, received the 2017 Arthur M. Bueche Award from the National Academy of Engineering for his work on the earth’s radiation environment and its effects on communications and space hardware.
Steven Meyers, a professor of psychology at Roosevelt University, received the 2017 Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award, presented by the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Pratibha Varma-Nelson, a professor of chemistry and founding director of the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, has been named the 2018 recipient of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, sponsored by Cengage Learning and the American Chemical Society.
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Deaths
Landrum Bolling, president of Earlham College from 1958 to 1973, died on January 17. He was 104. Mr. Bolling, who was a scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, served as an intermediary between the White House and the Palestinian political leader Yasir Arafat during President Carter’s administration.
Daniel W. Foster, former chair of the department of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, died on January 18. He was 88. Dr. Foster was noted for his research on metabolism and his advocacy for bioethics. He was a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ann Grandjean, an associate professor of medical-nutrition education, internal medicine, and sports medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died on January 6 in Texas. She was 77. From 1993 to 2009, Ms. Grandjean directed the Center for Human Nutrition (now the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition), an independent research entity at the medical center.
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Samuel F. Pellman, a professor of music at Hamilton College, was killed in an accident while riding his bicycle on November 9. He was a groundbreaking scholar in the area of electro-acoustic music. Shortly before his death, Mr. Pellman completed work on the pitch design for the chimes in the Tower of Voices, a monumental musical instrument being constructed at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., to commemorate the passengers and crew members who died when their hijacked plane crashed at that site on September 11, 2001.
Luns Richardson, president emeritus of Morris College, in South Carolina, died on January 13. He was 89. Mr. Richardson led Morris from 1974 until he retired last June, a tenure that made him one of the longest-serving college presidents in the country.
Natale A. Sicuro, president of Roger Williams University (formerly Roger Williams College) from 1989 to 1993, died on December 20 in Seattle following a brief illness. He was 83.