Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (9/22/2017)

Chief executives

Appointments

Gregory Anderson, vice president for planning, research, and institutional effectiveness at the San Mateo County Community College District, in California, was named president of Saddleback College. He succeeds Tod Burnett, who became executive vice chancellor at Brandman University.

Kevin Brockbank, vice provost for strategic initiatives in the district office of the Community Colleges of Spokane, was named acting president of Spokane Community College. He replaces Ryan Carstens, who has moved to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.

Paul Carlsen, who was chief content officer at the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, became president of Lakeshore Technical College, in Cleveland, in July. He succeeded Michael Lanser, who retired after 14 years in the job.

Angela Garcia Falconetti, vice president for institutional advancement at Virginia Western Community College, has become president of Polk State College, in Florida. She succeeded Eileen Holden, who retired.

John C. Hernandez, for the past year interim president of Santiago Canyon College, in Santa Ana, Calif., has been named permanently to the job. Previously he was vice president for student services there for 11 years.

Roger Moore, vice chancellor at Arkansas State University at Beebe, to interim chancellor. He replaces Karla Fisher, who resigned on August 15.

Anthony Munroe, a higher-education consultant and visiting assistant professor of sociology at DePaul University, has been named president of Essex County College, in New Jersey. He replaces Gale Gibson, who was fired last year.

Ty A. Stone, who was vice president for strategic initiatives at Sinclair Community College, in Dayton, Ohio, has become president of Jefferson Community College, part of the State University of New York, in Watertown. She succeeds Carole A. McCoy, who retired.

Sherry Zylka, provost of the Wayne County Community College District, in Detroit, has been named president of Big Sandy Community and Technical College, in Prestonsburg, Ky. She will start the job on October 1.

Departures

Paul Drayton Jr., president of Rowan College at Burlington County, in New Jersey, since March 2015, was placed on paid administrative leave by the Board of Trustees on August 30. Michael Cioce, vice president for enrollment management and student success, was named acting president.

Retirements

Linda L.M. Bennett, president of the University of Southern Indiana, will retire in June 2018. She has held the job since 2009, after having been provost and vice president for academic affairs since 2003. She is also a professor of political science.

Philip Kerstetter, president of the University of Mount Olive since 2009, has announced that he will retire at the end of the current academic year. During his time in office, Mount Olive went from a college to a university.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Robert Z. Carr Jr., dean of the School of Education and Psychology at Alcorn State University, to provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Resignations

April Mason, provost and senior vice president at Kansas State University, will step down in June 2018.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Tod Burnett, president of Saddleback College, to executive vice chancellor at Brandman University.

Sean P. Campbell, managing director of individual giving at the University of Chicago Medicine, to vice president for advancement at Skidmore College.

Peter Cunningham, associate dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, to vice provost for academic programs.

Stan DeMerritt, dean of students at South Plains College, to vice president for student affairs.

Lev Gonick, chief executive of DigitalC, to chief information officer at Arizona State University, effective in November.

Sharon Marine, vice president for development at Cornell Tech and associate vice president for alumni and development for the Northeast corridor at Cornell University, to vice president for alumni relations and development at the University of Chicago.

Robert Nobles, associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to interim vice chancellor for research and engagement.

Reggie Robinson, director of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, also to interim vice chancellor for public affairs.

Richard Rupp, an associate professor of political science at Purdue University Northwest, to chief of staff.

Michael Solomon, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to interim dean and interim vice provost for academic affairs in graduate studies in the university’s Rackham Graduate School.

Jeffrey Thibert, acting director of the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed permanently to the job.

Cheryl B. Torsney, a professor of English and former senior vice provost at the University of Texas at El Paso, to vice provost for faculty affairs at Middle Tennessee State University.

José Villalba, senior associate dean for faculty, evaluation, and inclusivity at Wake Forest University, to interim chief diversity officer.

Deans

Appointments

Cathleen Connell, a professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to interim dean of the School of Public Health.

Lauren Loeffler, executive director of work-force development at Bucks County Community College, to vice president for work-force development in community education and dean of the Fowler Southside Center at Northampton Community College.

Marshall Onofrio, associate dean for administration at the Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University, to dean of the arts college.

Pamela Pape-Lindstrom, co-chair of the life-sciences department at Everett Community College, to dean of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Harford Community College.

Barbara Pieper, associate dean of the School of Nursing and director of the Robert E. Kinsinger Institute for Nursing Excellence at Excelsior College, to dean of the college’s School of Health Sciences.

Mark Stacy, vice dean for clinical research at Duke University’s School of Medicine, to dean of the Brody School of Medicine and senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs in the division of health sciences at East Carolina University.

Paul Steger, a professor in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, to director of Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts.

Resignations

Mark Zabriskie, dean of the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University, will step down and return to his faculty position in June.

Retirements

Dan Arp, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University, will retire in June.

Other administrators

Appointments

Susan Dackerman, a consortium professor at the Getty Research Institution, in Los Angeles, to director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

Vince Gennaro, director of the sports-management graduate program at Columbia University, to clinical associate professor and associate dean of the Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business of the School of Professional Studies at New York University.

Robyn Gershon, associate dean for research and director of the mentoring program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, to clinical professor of environmental public health in the College of Global Public Health and director of early-career-research development at New York University.

Patricia Grant, interim senior associate dean for undergraduate programs at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, was appointed permanently to the job.

Alison K. Hall, deputy director of the division of training, work-force development, and diversity at the National Institute of General Medical Science, to associate dean of research work-force development at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Robert Jacks, coordinator of advising in Virginia Tech’s English department, to director of academic advising in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at the university.

Jacey Kepich, assistant music librarian at Interlochen Center for the Arts, in Michigan, to research-services librarian for music at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.

Christine Klecic, development director at Magnolia Clubhouse, in Cleveland, to director of library development at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.

Andre Richburg, dean of enrollment management and college relations at Atlantic Cape Community College, to executive director of enrollment management at Northampton Community College.

Hesham Sadek, associate professor of internal medicine and associate director of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, to coordinator for researchers.

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, to director of the school’s New Economy Law Center.

Ryan Willerton, director of the office of community standards at the University of Notre Dame, to associate vice president for career and professional development in the division of student affairs.

David W. Wise, chief executive of Pharos Biologicals and venture adviser to the president of the Abell Foundation on its direct-investment program, in Baltimore, was named director of the Maryland Momentum Fund at the University System of Maryland.

Organizations

Appointments

Nils Gilman, associate chancellor and chief of staff at the University of California at Berkeley, to vice president for programs at the Berggruen Institute.

Calvin M. Johnson, dean of Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, to president-elect of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.

Stephanie Kirschmann, vice president for quality assurance, policy, and planning at LeTourneau University, to vice president at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Phillip Nelson, dean of the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine, to president of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.

Denise Y. Young, associate provost for institutional effectiveness and associate professor of education at the University of North Georgia, to vice president at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Deaths

M. Louise Fitzpatrick, dean of Villanova University’s College of Nursing since 1978, died on August 31. She created the master’s and doctoral programs at the college and wrote several books, including Prologue to Professionalism: A History of Nursing.

James Dickson Phillips Jr., 94, a former dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, died on August 27. A native of North Carolina, he was also a lawyer, a law professor, and a longtime federal judge.

Andreas S. Rosenberg, 92, an emeritus professor of lab medicine and pathology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died on August 29. Born in Estonia, he earned degrees at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, before arriving in the United States in 1962. At Minnesota he wrote more than 300 academic papers.

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Correction (6 p.m., 10/11/2017): The original listing for Marshall Onofrio incorrectly reported that he had been promoted to associate dean of the Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University. His new position is dean of the arts college, not associate dean. The item has been corrected.

Correction (4:35 p.m., 7/6/2018): The original listing for Angela Garcia Falconetti misspelled her first name as Angel. The item has been corrected.