Top Chief Executives
Converse College, Krista Newkirk
Green Mountain College, Robert Allen
Johnson & Wales University at Denver, Richard Wiscott
Seattle Colleges, Shouan Pan
Umpqua Community College, Debra Thatcher
Appointments
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, associate dean of academic affairs and research in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rabbi David Adelson, spiritual leader at East End Temple, to dean of the New York campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Robert Allen, chief executive of the Windham Foundation, to president of Green Mountain College.
Greg Bell, associate professor of business, to associate dean of faculty affairs for the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas.
Craig Boise, dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, to dean of the College of Law at Syracuse University.
Eli Bortz, acquisitions editor at Vanderbilt University Press, to senior acquisitions editor at the University of Notre Dame Press.
David Bridel, interim dean, to dean of the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California.
Augustine Choi, chair of the department of medicine, to interim dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs at Cornell University.
John Cole, founding director of the Center for the Book, to historian at the Library of Congress.
Stephen Cook, director of the counseling psychology doctoral program at Texas Tech University, to dean of the Cynthia Ann Parker College of Liberal Arts at Hardin-Simmons University.
Deborah Deas, interim dean of the College of Medicine and professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, to dean and chief executive of clinical affairs in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Riverside.
Graig Donnelly, director of Detroit Revitalization Fellows, to assistant vice president for economic development at Wayne State University.
Cody Down, director of information technology at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, to associate vice president and chief information officer at Hawaii Pacific University.
Peg Faimon, professor and chair of the art department at Miami University (Ohio), to dean of the School of Art and Design at Indiana University at Bloomington.
David Forde Jr., chief operating officer at Engagement Studios, to director of community and government affairs at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
Allen Henderson, assistant director and assistant professor of education, to director of the STEM Center in the Cannon-Clary College of Education at Harding University.
Craig Hill, executive director of the doctorate program in ministry and the Christian practice master’s program, to dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
Kari Hortos, associate dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Macomb University Center, to interim senior associate dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University.
Kate Howard, senior associate director of admissions, recruitment, and orientation services at the University of Memphis, to assistant vice president and dean of admissions at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Pam Jackson, deputy assistant director of the government and finance division for the Congressional Research Service, to founding director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
Anne Jarvis, university librarian at the University of Cambridge, to university librarian at Princeton University.
Paul Kassel, professor of theatre arts at the State University of New York College at New Paltz, to dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Northern Illinois University.
Andrew Lenhardt, director of human resources and Title IX deputy coordinator at Indiana University East, to executive director of human resources at the University of Southern Indiana.
Francy Magee, dean of campus life at the New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury, to assistant provost and dean of students at Clark University.
Nancy Mansfield, development officer at New Jersey Audubon Society, to director of university development at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
John McKnight Jr., dean of intercultural development at Lafayette College, to dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Connecticut College.
Cheryl McPherson, assistant dean of finance and administration for the School of Nursing at Oakland University, to director of finance and operations for the Michigan College Access Network.
Jim Moran, a former U.S. congressman who served Virginia’s eighth congressional district, to professor of practice in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech.
Charles Moses, former interim dean of the School of Business Administration at Clark Atlanta University, to interim dean of the College of Business at Austin Peay State University.
Simon Neame, associate university librarian and director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Library, to dean of libraries at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Krista Newkirk, chief of staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, to president of Converse College.
Elizabeth Palacios, dean of student development, to an additional post, special assistant to the president on diversity at Baylor University.
Shouan Pan, president of Mesa Community College, to chancellor of Seattle Colleges.
Arlie Petters, professor of mathematics and physics in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, to associate vice provost for undergraduate education and dean of academic affairs at Duke University.
Kevin Railey, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School at the State University College at Buffalo, to provost at St. John Fisher College.
Stuart Rayfield, associate professor and director of the Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State University, to interim president of Bainbridge State College.
Susan Rhame, interim associate dean of academic affairs, to associate dean of academic affairs for the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas.
Mark Rollins, chair of the performing arts department and professor of philosophy, to dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis.
Steven Roper, professor of political science, to founding executive director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative at Florida Atlantic University.
Bradley Sheriff, assistant vice chancellor for business and finance for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, to vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
Lindsey Shirley, associate professor at Utah State University, to associate provost and associate director at Oregon State University Extension Service.
Don Smith, provost emeritus, to interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Houston-Victoria.
Debra Thatcher, research fellow and former acting president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill, to president of Umpqua Community College.
Daniel Thompson, vice president for core loan operations at J.P. Morgan Chase, to vice president for finance at Cecil College.
Daniel Troy, vice chancellor for college finance and facilities planning at California Community Colleges, to assistant superintendent and vice president for administrative services at Cuesta College.
John Unsworth, vice provost, university librarian, chief information officer, and professor of English at Brandeis University, to university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia.
Michael Waterstone, professor of law, to dean and senior vice president for Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University.
Adrienne Webber, dean of library and information services at South Carolina State University, to dean of library services for the Frederick Douglass Library at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore.
Anthony Wheeler, director of the full-time strategic innovation MBA program and professor of human resource management at the University of Rhode Island, to associate dean of the College of Business at Bryant University.
Brent White, professor of law, to vice provost for international education in the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.
Ben Wildavsky, director of higher education studies in the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York system, to senior fellow and executive director of the College Board Policy Center at College Board.
Richard Wiscott, vice president for the campus and dean of academic affairs, to president of Johnson & Wales University at Denver.
Frank Wojcik, interim library director, to dean of the library at California State University-Monterey Bay.
Kathleen Wong, director of the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, to chief diversity officer at San Jose State University.
Resignations
Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University, effective June 1.
Albert Gray, president of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
Roop Mahajan, director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech, effective June 30.
Claude Steele, executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California at Berkeley.
Retirements
William Abare Jr., president of Flagler College at Saint Augustine, effective in June 2017.
William Troutt, president of Rhodes College (Tenn.), effective in June 2017.
Pamela White, dean of the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University, effective in July.
Deaths
Carl Auerbach, 100, former dean of the law school and professor of law at the University of Minnesota, died April 6 in La Jolla, Calif.
Jeff Carr, 75, vice chancellor emeritus for university relations and former general counsel and secretary at Vanderbilt University, died April 10.
Veronica Charbonneau, 85, former dean of nursing at Cape Cod Community College, died April 9.
William Graves, 75, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died April 9.
William Mason Gray, 86, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, died April 16.
Conrad Kellenberg, 88, professor emeritus of law at the University of Notre Dame, died April 8.
Tim LaTourette, 59, professor in the School of Architecture and Design and woodshop director at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, died April 4.
Junda Lin, 55, former professor of biological sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, died March 2.
