Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (3/16/2018)

Chief executives

Appointments

Doug Brigham, former president of the title and escrow company TitleOne, and Jim Everett, former chief executive of Treasure Valley YMCA, in Boise, Idaho, will become co-presidents of the College of Idaho on April 2. The two men were being considered as individual candidates before they decided to apply as a team. This will be the first time the college has had co-presidents.

Dan Edelman, executive vice president for administration and chief financial officer of the University of North Texas at Dallas, will become chancellor of Montana State University at Billings and its City College on May 7.

Mary Ellen Caro, vice president for enrollment management and learner services at Thomas Edison State University, will become president of Peirce College on April 16. She will be the first woman in the college’s 153-year history to hold that position. The current leader, James J. Mergiotti, who has led the college since 2009, plans to retire.

Devinder Malhotra, interim chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, has been named to the post permanently. The system’s Board of Trustees bypassed its second group of three finalists to choose him instead. The last permanent chancellor, Steven Rosenstone, retired last summer.

Retirements

Thomas J. Haas, president of Grand Valley State University since 2006, says he plans to retire on June 30, 2019.

G. Dennis Massey, president of Pitt Community College, in North Carolina, since 2003, plans to retire this summer.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Matthew A. Redinger, vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of history at Montana State University at Billings, to provost of the University of Providence, effective July 1.

Christine Siegel, interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Fairfield University, to permanent status, effective July 1.

Alan R. Townsend, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to provost and a professor of environmental science at Colorado College, effective June 1.

Sarah Willie-LeBreton, professor of sociology and chair of the sociology and anthropology department at Swarthmore College, to provost, effective July 1.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Lisa Howze, former chief governmental-affairs officer for Mike Duggan, the mayor of Detroit, to vice president for Detroit campuses and strategic partnerships at Davenport University.

Lori A. Husein, a certified public accountant and former vice president for business and administration and treasurer at Claremont University Consortium, to vice president for finance and administration at Sweet Briar College, effective April 1.

Erik T. Mitchell, associate university librarian of digital initiatives and collaborative services and associate chief information officer at the University of California at Berkeley Libraries, to university librarian at the University of California at San Diego, effective April 16.

Mitchell S. Nesler, vice president for decision support at State University of New York Empire State College, to officer-in-charge of the college.

Retirements

Alan K. Cubbage, vice president for university relations at Northwestern University, says he will retire this summer, after 21 years in the role. He will continue working as an adjunct lecturer in the university’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

Robert A. Noto, vice president for legal affairs and general counsel of Michigan State University since 1995, planned to retire in March.

Thomas G. Poole, vice president for administration at Pennsylvania State University at University Park since 2009, says he plans to begin a phased retirement from the university on June 30.

Arthur G. Ramicone, chief financial officer and senior vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, says he will retire in August. He joined the university 30 years ago, and has been CFO since 2010 and senior vice chancellor since 2015.

Deans

Appointments

Edward Foote, professor and chair of the department of pharmacy practice at the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University, to dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences, effective July 1.

Dawn Williams, interim dean of the School of Education at Howard University, to permanent status.

Resignations

Sacha Kopp, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University since 2014, says he will step down from that position on July 1.

Retirements

Cynda Ann Johnson, founding dean of the Carilion School of Medicine at Virginia Tech, plans to retire this year, pending the selection of a successor.

Rick Luce, dean of libraries and associate vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, says he plans to retire on July 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, associate professor and director of the Program of Excellence in Addictions Research in the College of Nursing at Washington State University, to associate dean of research in the college.

Kimberly Francis, major gifts officer at the Methodist Health Foundation in Indianapolis, to assistant vice president for development for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and UC Health at the University of Cincinnati Foundation.

Nicole M. Grosland, a distinguished professor at the University of Iowa College of Engineering and executive officer of the biomedical-engineering department, to associate dean for academic programs.

Tricia Hanley, senior supervising teacher at the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development, to director of the Child Development Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Lesa Hanlin, director of the Richmond and Hampton Roads Centers at Virginia Tech, which provide educational services to working professionals, to executive director of Roanoke Regional Initiatives, which include the university’s Roanoke Center and its Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement.

Bryan Kelley, former chief talent officer at the family-owned company Shipley Energy, to managing director of new markets for the S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College.

Jordan Crosby Lee, a lawyer at Plunkett, Griesenbeck & Mimari, in San Antonio, to assistant director of the office of career and professional development at the Wake Forest University School of Law.

Claire Leon, a retired Boeing vice president and director of the Launch Enterprise Directorate of the Space and Missile Systems Center at the Los Angeles Air Force Base, to director of the graduate program in systems engineering at Loyola Marymount University.

Jon Leslie, interim assistant vice chancellor for campus communications and digital engagement at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to associate vice chancellor for marketing and content strategy.

Elizabeth McIntyre, vice president for sector strategies at Commonwealth Corporation, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts that aims to strengthen work skills, to director of the Tristate Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Consortium, a group led by the Community College of Beaver County that intends to align work-force training with industry needs.

Andrea Morehouse, former graduate assistant in the Division of Lifelong Learning at the University of Maine at Orono, to resident director in the Office of Student Life at High Point University.

Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Industrial Performance Center and a lecturer in the department of urban studies and planning, to an additional role as executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future.

Charles Shanley, a professor of surgery at Wayne State University, to vice dean for clinical affairs at Wayne State University School of Medicine and president and chief executive of the medical school’s University Physician Group.

David Simon, senior principal gifts officer at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, to senior director of development at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Phoenix.

Michelle Turek, vice president for commercial banking at Tompkins Trust Company, in New York, to principal gifts officer at Virginia Tech.

Jonathan C. Weetman, lawyer and business counselor with the Entrepreneur Store, to entrepreneur-in-residence at McDaniel College.

Resignations

Larry Eustachy, head coach of men’s basketball at Colorado State University, has resigned. He was placed on administrative leave on February 3 following accusations of abusive behavior toward his players.

Faculty

Appointments

Nefertiti Burton, professor and chair of the department of theater arts at the University of Louisville, to professor and chair of the department of theater arts at Howard University.

Margaret J. Couvillon, bee researcher with a doctorate in the behavioral ecology of bees from the University of Sheffield, in Britain, to assistant professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.

Martin I. Gilens, a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, to professor of public policy in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California at Los Angeles, effective next fall.

Awards

Steve Arounsack, associate professor of cultural anthropology at California State University-Stanislaus, received a documentary fund award from the Center for Asian American Media for directing the film Halfway Home, an exploration into how Asian Americans in California’s Central Valley use art to convey their legacy as immigrants.

Rui P. Fernandes, an associate professor and associate chair of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine at Jacksonville, has been inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is chief of head and neck surgery, director of the head-and-neck-oncologic surgery and microvascular-fellowship program, and co-director of the UF Health Skull Base Center at Jacksonville, which treats patients with skull-base tumors, brain tumors, and related conditions.

Paul Muldoon, professor in the humanities, professor of creative writing, and director of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Princeton Atelier at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry by Queen Elizabeth of Britain for his body of work as a poet. Muldoon is only the second Irish poet to receive the honor in its 83-year history.

James A. Roth, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, was named as the recipient of the 2018 Senator John Melcher, D.V.M., Leadership in Public Policy Award by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. Roth is director of the university’s Center for Food Security and Public Health, and executive director of the Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics, established by Iowa State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

David Waxman, a professor of biology, medicine, and biomedical engineering in the School of Medicine at Boston University, received the 2018 Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism, given by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Paul G. Yock, professor of medicine and of bioengineering at Stanford University, was named winner of the 2018 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education by the National Academy of Engineering. The award, which carries a $500,000 cash prize, recognizes Yock’s work as founder and director of Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, which encourages leadership and innovation in health technologies.

Deaths

F. Walker Gilmer, a professor emeritus of English at DePauw University, died on January 21. He was 82. He served on the faculty there from 1963 until his retirement in 1997.

Verona C. Gordon, a former professor of nursing at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on February 13. She was 94.

Eleanor Winsor Leach, a professor of classical studies at Indiana University at Bloomington, was found dead in her home on February 19. She was 80. She oversaw at least 26 dissertations in classics.

Charles P. Slichter, a professor emeritus of both physics and chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, died on February 19. He was 94. He served on the university’s faculty for 57 years and also served for 25 years on the Harvard Corporation, including almost 10 years as senior fellow. In 2007 he won the National Medal of Science “for establishing nuclear magnetic resonance as a powerful tool to reveal the fundamental molecular properties of liquids and solids.”

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