Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (3/23/2018)

Chief executives

Appointments

John Cech, deputy commissioner of higher education for the Montana University system, will become president of Carroll College in June. He will replace the Rev. Stephen Rowan, who has served as interim president since August 1, after Thomas M. Evans stepped down to lead the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio.

Clifford P. Coppersmith, dean of City College, a community college embedded within Montana State University at Billings, will become president of Chesapeake College, in Maryland, on May 29.

Nancy Fair-Szofran, provost and chief learning officer for Community Colleges of Spokane, will serve as acting president of Spokane Falls Community College until it selects a permanent president this spring. The previous acting president, Darren Pitcher, resigned.

Richard J. Helldobler, interim president of Northeastern Illinois University, will become president of William Paterson University of New Jersey on July 1. He will succeed Kathleen Waldron, who plans to retire at the end of this academic year.

Farnam Jahanian, interim president of Carnegie Mellon University, was named to the post permanently. He joined the university in 2014 as vice provost for research and was named provost the next year. He held the interim role since last July, following the resignation of Subra Suresh.

Marisa Kelly, acting president of Suffolk University for more than a year and a half, will assume the post permanently. She joined the university as provost in 2014. The previous president, Margaret McKenna, was dismissed in 2016.

Maud S. Mandel, dean of the college and a professor of history and Judaic studies at Brown University, will become president of Williams College on July 1. Protik K. Majumder has been serving as interim president at Williams since January 1, following Adam F. Falk’s departure to lead the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Rodney Rogers, interim president of Bowling Green State University since January 1, was named to the post permanently in February. He had been provost and senior vice president since 2012. He succeeds Mary Ellen Mazey, who was granted the title president emeritus.

Amit Singh, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Clark State Community College, in Ohio, will become president of Edmonds Community College, near Seattle, on June 25. He will succeed Jean Hernandez, who retired on December 31.

Laura Skandera Trombley, former president of Pitzer College and of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will become president of the University of Bridgeport on July 1. The current president, Neil A. Salonen, plans to step down at the end of June.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

John Caron, associate dean for graduate and professional programs in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, to provost of Endicott College, effective in June.

Rick Denbow, senior field-development officer for the Texas State Technical College Foundation and interim provost at the college’s four West Texas campuses since last May, to permanent status as provost.

Margaret Everett, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Portland State University, in Oregon, to provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lesley University, in Massachusetts, effective July 1.

Steve Everett, dean of the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to provost and executive vice president of Adelphi University, effective before July 1.

Lon D. Moeller, associate provost for undergraduate education and dean of the University College at the University of Iowa, to provost of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Jan Murphy, interim provost at Illinois State University since January 2017, to vice president for academic affairs and provost.

Rojelio (Roy) Vasquez, dean of instruction for the business division and interim vice president for student services at Fresno City College, to vice president for academic affairs at Oxnard College.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Keith Archer, vice president for finance and administrative services at Knox College, to vice president for finance and treasurer at Grinnell College.

Haywood L. Brown, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine at Duke University, to vice president for diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity, and Title IX administrator for the University of South Florida system, with additional roles as associate dean for diversity in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida and chief diversity officer for USF Health, effective July 1.

Sarah Kottich, vice president for finance and administration at the College of Saint Mary, to executive vice president for operations and planning, a new position.

Brian McCartan, chief financial officer at Sound Transit, to vice president for finance at the University of Washington.

Scott Menke, director of business services, controller, and budget officer at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, to vice chancellor for finance and administration.

Bob Preloger, retired vice president for advancement at Augustana University, in South Dakota, to interim vice president for institutional advancement at Dakota State University and head of the DSU Foundation.

Jane Shaw, dean for religious life at Stanford University, to principal of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford, in Britain, effective this summer.

Michael Westfall, vice president for advancement and executive director of the foundation at Eastern Washington University, to vice president for university advancement at Oakland University, in Michigan.

Brian White, deputy athletics director for external relations at the University of Missouri at Columbia, to vice president and director of athletics at Florida Atlantic University.

Departures

Julio Freire, athletics director and vice chancellor for intercollegiate sports at the University of South Carolina-Upstate, has been dismissed.

Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M University, has stepped down. He has returned to a faculty position in the department of soil and crop sciences to specialize in forage breeding and management.

Pope Moseley, executive vice chancellor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and dean of the Arkansas College of Medicine, has resigned to return to a faculty position.

Bryan Robinson, interim vice president for advancement at the University of Louisville, has resigned.

Deans

Appointments

Carl Grant, associate dean of the libraries and chief information officer at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, to interim dean of the university libraries.

Laurie A. Henry, associate dean for clinical preparation and partnerships in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, to dean of the Samuel W. & Marilyn C. Seidel School of Education & Professional Studies at Salisbury University, effective July 1.

Misty M. Johanson, interim dean of the Driehaus College of Business and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University, and director of the college’s School of Hospitality Leadership, to permanent status as dean.

Tyrus Miller, vice provost and dean of graduate studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, to dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine, effective July 1.

Scott Moreau, a professor of intercultural studies at Wheaton College, in Illinois, to dean of the college’s graduate school.

Sarah A. Mustillo, professor and chair of the sociology department at the University of Notre Dame, to dean of the College of Arts and Letters.

Karen K. Petersen, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University, to permanent status.

Sudhir Singh, interim dean of Frostburg State University’s College of Business and director of the college’s Center for Leadership Development, to permanent status as dean.

Other administrators

Appointments

Andrea E. Brown, assistant director of bands and associate director of the Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands at the University of Michigan, to associate director of bands and director of athletic bands in the School of Music at the University of Maryland at College Park this summer. She will be the university’s first female director of athletic bands.

Sheila Caldwell, adviser to the president on diversity, director of Complete College Georgia, and principal investigator for an Upward Bound grant at the University of North Georgia, to chief intercultural engagement officer at Wheaton College, in Illinois, effective June 11.

Paul Chinowsky, associate vice provost for student success in academic affairs and a professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to director of the program in environmental design, effective July 1.

Amy Galpin, curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, to chief curator at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University.

William B. Hughes, director of the Temple Burn Center at Temple University Hospital, to medical director of Thomas Jefferson University’s Burn Center and clinical associate professor of surgery in the university’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Brian Lindoerfer, division manager in the Boulder County government, to assistant vice chancellor for facilities operations and services for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Erin McCann, associate director of marketing for academic innovation at the University of Michigan, to director of strategic planning at Virginia Tech.

Rebecca Rahschulte, dean of arts, sciences, and education and a professor of psychology at Ivy Tech Community College at Lawrenceburg, to director of the Ivy Tech Community College’s Batesville campus, in Indiana.

Nick Rigas, executive director of the Clemson University Restoration Institute, to executive director of the university’s International Center for Automotive Research.

Angie Schmucker, vice president for development and alumni relations at Oakland University, in Michigan, to associate vice president for university advancement.

Gabriele Villarini, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Iowa and interim director of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research–Hydroscience & Engineering, to permanent status as director.

Agencies and organizations

Appointments

Steve Alb, director of Western Retail Services, the bookstore at Western University, in Ontario, Canada, has been named president of the National Association of College Stores.

Jon Parrish Peede, senior deputy chairman at the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been nominated by President Trump to become chairman, pending confirmation by Congress.

Chad M. Schreier, associate general manager of the MSU Bookstore at Montana State University at Bozeman, will become president-elect of the National Association of College Stores.

Awards

Tribikram Kundu, a professor of engineering mechanics and structures at the University of Arizona, received the 2017 Founders Award, highest honor of the Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognosis Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Cass R. Sunstein, a Harvard University professor who founded and directs the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School, is the 2018 Laureate of the Holberg Prize, given in recognition of the impact of his research on U.S. public policy. The government of Norway funds the prize, which this year carries an award of about $765,000.

Deaths

Lucie Brock-Broido, a professor of writing and director of the poetry concentration in the School of Arts at Columbia University, died on March 6 following a brief illness. She was 61.

Dennis R. Corbin, senior associate athletic director for medical services at Western Michigan University, died on March 7 from a stroke. He was 63.

Ronald G. Douglas, a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University at College Station, died on February 27. He was 79. From 1996 to 2002, he served as executive vice president and provost of the university.

Hayden V. White, a history scholar who taught at Wesleyan University, Stanford University, and on several campuses of the University of California system, died on March 5. He was 89. Among his best-known works is Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973).

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