Transitions: Alderson Broaddus U. Names President, U. of Texas Campus Appoints Inclusive-Excellence Chief

Chief executives

Appointments

James (Tim) Barry, who has served as interim president of Alderson Broaddus University for nearly three years, has been named to the post permanently.

Bethany H. Flora, associate director of the Center for Community College Leadership at East Tennessee State University, will become president of Northeast State Community College on January 2. She will replace James King, who has served as interim president since Janice Gilliam’s retirement in June 2017.

Betty Jo Foster, former vice president for academic and student services at Danville Community College and former interim president at Central Virginia Community College, will become interim president of Danville Community College in January. She will replace Bruce Scism, who plans to retire.

Ronald Schumacher, interim president of Terra State Community College, has been named to the position permanently. He became interim president in June when Jerome Webster resigned.

Retirements

Jeffrey S. Vitter, chancellor of the University of Mississippi since 2015, plans to retire and return to the engineering faculty in January.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Christopher P. Evans, who was dean of arts and sciences at the University of St. Thomas, in Houston, is the university’s new vice president for academic affairs.

Ron Howard, vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi College since 2003, has been named the college’s first provost. At the end of the academic year, he will return to the faculty in the department of history and political science and assume the title of provost emeritus.

Eric Carl Link, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, will become provost and senior vice president for academic and student affairs at the University of Houston-Downtown on January 14.

Sujata Moorti, a professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Middlebury College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty.

Joe B. Whitehead, a professor of physics at North Carolina A&T University and senior adviser for research at the University of North Carolina system, will become provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Bowling Green State University on January 22.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Myron Anderson, associate to the president for diversity at Metropolitan State University of Denver, will become the first vice president for inclusive excellence at the University of Texas at San Antonio on January 1.

Christian Boniforti, chief information officer at Lynn University, has been named the university’s first chief strategy and technology officer.

B. Afeni McNeely Cobham, a visiting associate professor at Salem State University and former associate dean of institutional equity at Connecticut College, has been named chief equity and inclusion officer at Grand Rapids Community College.

Jim Hanchett, director of marketing and communications in the School of Public Health at Indiana University at Bloomington, has been named chief communications officer at Christopher Newport University.

Tom Sasser, assistant dean of development for the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of the Pacific, will become chief development officer at William Jessup University on November 26.

Deans

Appointments

James Frazier, a professor of dance and choreography and former interim dean of the School of Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, will become dean of the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University on June 17.

Sheri Hardee, associate dean of the College of Education at the University of North Georgia, will become dean of the college on January 2.

Keith Olsen, dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will become dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center on January 7.

Sarah Phillips, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Pacific University, has been named to the position permanently.

Adam Schauer, program manager in advancing careers and employment at Safer Foundation, in Chicago, has been named dean of adult education at Waubonsee Community College.

Alan Worley, an assistant professor math and statistics and chair of the mathematics and engineering department at South Plains College, has been named dean of arts and sciences.

Retirements

Anand Desai, dean of the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, plans to retire in August.

Department chairs

Appointments

Dave Limina, an assistant professor of piano at Berklee College of Music, has been named chair of the piano department.

Heidi Schmidt, a professor of education at Trident University International, has been named department chair in the College of Education.

Other administrators

Appointments

Gail Branch, a business development manager for On-Board Companies, in Houston, has been named director of career and student services at the Houston campus of MIAT College of Technology.

W. Scott Campbell, director of public health and pathology lab informatics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named senior director of research technology.

David W. Clayton, executive director of the Greenville Technical College Center for Manufacturing Innovation, has been named assistant vice president for the Office of Corporate Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives at Clemson University.

Anne Hudak, assistant dean of undergraduate students at Dartmouth College, has been named the first assistant dean of undergraduate veterans.

Sarah Palacios, director of alumni relations at the Thacher School, a boarding school in Ojai, California, has been named director of the Native American Program at Dartmouth College.

Maureen O. Stokes, associate vice president for external relations, marketing, and communications at Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, has been named assistant vice president for communications and marketing at Worcester State University.

Stephanie L. White, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth College, has been named associate dean of diversity and inclusion in the Geisel School of Medicine.

Resignations

Maria Frawley, director of the University Honors Program at George Washington University, plans to step down at the end of the semester and return to the faculty.

Retirements

William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education and co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, plans to retire from both positions. He will step down as co-director of the center in June and remain as a professor until December 2019.

Faculty

Appointments

William R. Auger, director of the chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension program at the University of California at San Diego, has been named a clinical professor of medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and a pulmonologist in the Temple Heart and Vascular Institute.

Stan Van Gundy, former head coach of the Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons, will become an instructor of sports business at Stetson University in January.

Pahara-Aspen Fellows

The Pahara Institute, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, has named 25 Fall 2018 Pahara-Aspen Fellows, who are being recognized for reimagining public education. The seven fellows listed below work at colleges or higher-education-related organizations or agencies.

Andrew Calkins, director of Next Generation Learning Challenges at Educause

Scott Jenkins, strategy director at Lumina Foundation

Ebony Lee, deputy chief of staff for policy at the U.S. Department of Education

Deborah Levitzky, chief program officer and founding director at the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education

Dena Simmons, assistant director at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence

Russ Wigginton, vice president for student life and dean of students at Rhodes College

Julie Young, chief executive of Prep Digital and deputy vice president for education outreach and student services at Arizona State University

Mathematics Awards

The American Mathematical Society gives out the Steele Prize in multiple categories.

Jeff Cheeger, a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, will receive the 2019 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

Philippe Flajolet, (posthumously) of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, and Robert Sedgewick, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, will receive the 2019 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for their book Analytic Combinatorics (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Haruzo Hida, a professor of mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles, will receive the 2019 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for his paper “Galois representations into GL2(Zp[[X]]) attached to ordinary cusp forms,” published in Inventiones Mathematicae in 1986.

Organizations

Appointments

Demarée Michelau, vice president for policy analysis and research at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, will become president on January 1. She will be the first woman to lead the agency.

Yolanda Watson Spiva, president and chief executive of College Success Foundation, has been named president of Complete College America.

Retirements

Richard D. Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges since 2006, plans to retire on June 30.

Deaths

Thomas George, professor emeritus and former associate dean of academic affairs and administrative services in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, died on October 18. He was 76.

Barbara C. Moore, retired vice president for institutional advancement at Benedict College, died on October 27 following a sudden illness. She was 68. Moore also served as president of Zeta Phi Beta sorority for six years.

Devah Pager, a professor of sociology of public policy at Harvard University, died of pancreatic cancer on November 2. She was 46. Pager was a mentor to many students, and her book Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press, 2007) was named book of the year by the Association for Humanist Sociology. Her research into systemic racism in the criminal-justice system influenced a change in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance regarding how the criminal records of job candidates should be treated.

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