Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (9/29/2017)

Chief executives

Appointments

William J. Ashley, vice president for student affairs at Southwest Mississippi Community College, has become president of Shelton State Community College, in Alabama. A Mississippi native, he has worked for almost 20 years in the state’s community-college system.

Peggy F. Bradford, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Westchester Community College, of the State University of New York, was named president of Shawnee Community College, in Illinois. She succeeds Tim Bellamey, who retired in April.

William Bynum, president of Mississippi Valley State University, to president of Jackson State University

Keith Curry, provost of the El Camino Community College Compton Center and chief executive of the Compton Community College District, became president of Compton College in June, in conjunction with its regaining accreditation.

Orinthia T. Montague, vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer at Normandale Community College, to president of Tompkins Cortland Community College.

William J. Murabito, former interim president of the State University of New York A&T College at Morrisville, to interim president of Niagara County Community College. He succeeds James P. Klyczek, who retired in April.

James Taggart, vice president for instructional services at Ogden-Weber Technical College, in Utah, was named president. He is also on the Board of Directors of Utah’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative.

Karen M. Whitney, president of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, to interim chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

Jamel Santa Cruze Wright, interim president of Eureka College since July 2016, was named permanently to the post.

Departures

James Williamson, president of the North Carolina Community College system, has resigned, effective September 30, a year after taking office.

Retirements

Garrey Carruthers, chancellor of New Mexico State University, will retire in July 2018.

Tony Fernandez, president of Lewis-Clark State College, in Idaho, since 2011, will retire at the end of the academic year.

Michael Fiorentino Jr., president of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania since 2011, has announced that he will retire on March 16, 2018.

Randy W. Grissom, president of Santa Fe Community College since 2013, will retire on October 31.

Arthur Vailas, president of Idaho State University for 12 years, has announced that he will retire in June 2018.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Patricia Alvarez McHatton, dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, to interim vice president for academic affairs.

Vikas P. Sukhatme, chief academic officer and dean of academic programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to dean of Emory University’s School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Emory Healthcare.

Jinliu (Grace) Wang, vice chancellor for research and economic development in the State University of New York system, to interim provost.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Mark A. Robinson, interim senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer at Marshall University, was appointed to the posts permanently.

Baishakhi Taylor, dean of students at Middlebury College, to interim vice president for student affairs, effective on January 1.

Resignations

Lakeesha Ransom, vice provost and dean of the honors college at the University of Akron, has resigned from the position. She will leave in December, after a two-year tenure.

Katy Smith Abbott, vice president for student affairs and dean of Middlebury College, will step down in December and return to the faculty as a professor of art history.

Deans

Appointments

Steve Anderson, director of the School of Social Work at Michigan State University, to dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Lynne Bongiovanni, an associate professor of English at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, to interim dean of its undergraduate college.

Elizabeth Dumont, vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, to dean of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California at Merced.

Lael Keiser, a professor of public policy and administration at the University of Missouri at Columbia, to director of the university’s Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs.

Steven W. McLaughlin, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, to dean of the College of Engineering.

Thomas W. Mitchell, a law professor and co-director of the program in real-estate and community-development law at Texas A&M University at College Station, to interim dean of the School of Law there.

Eric Rosenthal, director of academic advising and counseling and transfer coordinator at Harper College, in Illinois, to dean of student success at Northampton Community College, in Pennsylvania.

Other administrators

Appointments

Karen Diaz, a volunteer for child, youth, and school services at Trident University International, to outreach-education specialist.

Elza Ibroscheva, a professor and chair of the department of mass communication at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, to associate dean of the School of Communications at Webster University.

Tina Kapral, manager of the entrepreneurship program at the Institute for Veteran and Military Families at Syracuse University, to director of development at the institute.

El Camino College

Tracey Lanham, program chair for computer-information technology at Hodges University, to associate dean of its Fisher School of Technology.

Andrew Mancuso, photography-archive supervisor at the Houston Public Library, to preservation librarian at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.

Christine Manson, director of the Dr. Peter Thomas Veterans Services Center at Hodges University, to chief student-success officer.

Christopher Marx, interim registrar at Davenport University, has been appointed permanently to the job.

David Mears, vice dean for faculty at the Vermont Law School, to director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School.

Karen Miner-Romanoff, associate provost for academic quality and executive director of the International Institute for Innovative Instruction at Franklin University, to assistant dean for academic excellence at New York University’s School of Professional Studies.

Michael P. Moreland, a visiting professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, to director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law.

Amy Moyer, director of new-partner strategy at BlueLabs, a data-analytics firm in Washington, to associate director of corporate relations and employer development in the Graduate Career Management Center of the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary.

Cynthia Otts, associate registrar at Indiana State University, to registrar at Park University.

Ralf Peetz, interim associate provost for undergraduate studies and student success at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, was appointed permanently to the job.

Jerrod Price, director of admissions and financial aid at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, in Michigan, to associate dean of admissions and enrollment management at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Melissa Reider, conference producer at Eventful Conferences and a former director of development and foundations at Le Moyne College, to director of development at the Institute for Veteran and Military Families and the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs at Syracuse University.

Peter Schiffer, vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to vice provost for research at Yale University.

LaToya Smith, associate dean of students at the University of Texas at Austin, to senior associate athletics director for student services.

David Smith, an associate professor of film and digital media at the University of North Georgia, to director of the Film Crew Technology program at Columbia State Community College, in Tennessee.

Michael Stefiuk, former director of artistic planning for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, to director of concert activities at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester.

Stacie Williams, Learning Lab manager at the University of Kentucky, to team leader for digital learning and scholarship at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.

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

Retirements

Craig Littlepage, director of athletics at the University of Virginia for 16 years, has announced his intention to retire as soon as a successor is found. He plans to assume an unspecified role working for the university’s president.

Organizations

Appointments

Kivmars Bowling, senior publisher at Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, to publications director at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Brenda Dann-Messier, Rhode Island’s acting commissioner of postsecondary education, has assumed the job permanently.

John P. Dugan, a professor of education at Loyola University Chicago, to director of program quality, design, and assessment in the Aspen Institute’s Youth & Engagement Programs division.

Rosalind Fuse-Hall, former president of Bennett College, to director of legal and governmental affairs and commission support at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Sonya Malunda, senior associate vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago, to president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.

Beth Rushing, vice president for academic affairs at Guilford College, to president of the Appalachian College Association.

Richard Winn, interim president of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, has been appointed permanently to the job.

Retirements

Carol Luthman, director of legal and governmental affairs and commission support at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, has retired.

David Marshall, publisher at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, has retired after 10 years in the job.

Deaths

Nicolaas Bloembergen, 97, a professor of physics at Harvard University for more than 40 years, died on September 5. He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1981 for his work in nonlinear optics and helped develop techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

David Chaplin, 86, a professor emeritus of sociology at Western Michigan University, died on July 27. He chaired the department from 1972 to 1989 and served for three years on the National Science Foundation’s graduate-fellowship committee.

Ainslie Thomas Embree, 96, an American Indologist and professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, died on June 6. A widely recognized scholar of modern Indian history, he helped introduce South Asian studies into college curricula. He also contributed to peace efforts between India and Pakistan.

Russell Lamonte Langworthy, 92, a professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at Carleton College, died on July 1. After retiring from Carleton, in 1986, he taught at the University of Caen, in Normandy, where he had served during World War II.

Moses C. Norman, 82, former dean of Clark Atlanta University’s School of Education and a pioneer in educational leadership, died on July 11. He was also a longtime NCAA football referee. He had retired from the university on June 30.