Transitions: Bryn Mawr College and Stanford U. Named New Presidents

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Sunil Ahuja, provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Shawnee State University, has been named president of Lakeland Community College, in Ohio.

Wendy Cadge, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at Brandeis University, in Massachusetts, has been named president of Bryn Mawr College, in Pennsylvania.

Ryan Foley, interim president of Savannah Technical College, in Georgia, has been named to the post permanently.

Tommy Gregory, a member of the Florida House of Representatives, has been named president of the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota.

Chato Hazelbaker, president of Northland Pioneer College, in Arizona, has been named president of Pueblo Community College, in Colorado.

Jonathan Levin, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been named president of Stanford University.

Lisa A. Lori, a partner at the Philadelphia-based law firm Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP, has been named president of Marywood University, in Pennsylvania.

Richard K. Lyons, associate vice chancellor and chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer and former dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, has been named chancellor.

Bill Mitchell, vice president for administration and chief financial officer at Massasoit Community College, in Massachusetts, has been named interim president of the college following the passing of President Ray DiPasquale.

Simonetta Moro, director of school, vice president for academic affairs, and a professor of art, philosophy, and visual studies at Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, in Maine, has been named president of the institute.

Msgr. Joseph R. Reilly, vice provost for academics and Catholic identity at Seton Hall University, in New Jersey, has been named president.

Paul Sniegowski, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion, in Indiana.

Sylvia Torti, a former dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah, has been named president of the College of the Atlantic, in Maine.

Lawrence P. Ward, vice president for learner success and dean of campus life at Babson College, in Massachusetts, has been named president of the University of Hartford, in Connecticut.

Resignations
Sheri Everts, chancellor of Appalachian State University, in North Carolina, planned to step down in April.

Retirements
Kathi Hiyane-Brown, president for 17 years of Whatcom Community College, in Washington, will retire in March 2025.

Dianne Lynch, president of Stephens College, in Missouri, plans to retire next year.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Gabriel Barreneche, dean of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and a professor of Spanish at Berry College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Oglethorpe University, in Georgia.

April Bedford, senior associate provost for academic programs and services and interim provost at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College, has been named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Jessica Clark, former vice president for instruction at Walla Walla Community College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bellevue College, in Washington.

Christine J. Gardner, dean of the School of Graduate, Professional, and Extended Studies at Gordon College, in Massachusetts, has been named provost of Messiah University, in Pennsylvania.

Teresa A. Garrett, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college and a faculty member in the chemistry department at Sweet Briar College, in Virginia, has been named executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Hendrix College, in Arkansas.

Monique Guillory, chief of staff and senior vice president at the University of the District of Columbia, has been named provost and chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard University, in Louisiana.

Daphne Lamothe, a professor of Africana studies at Smith College, in Massachusetts, has been named provost and dean of the faculty.

Diane Ryan, vice president for academic affairs at Yavapai College, in Arizona, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Harford Community College, in Maryland.

Brien Smith, a former provost of Youngstown State University, in Ohio, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Alabama.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz, dean of humanities and a professor of English at Rutgers University at New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, has been named provost and dean of the faculty at Barnard College, in New York.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Stanley Bazile, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at St. Francis College, in New York, has been named vice president for student affairs and campus life at Ithaca College.

Stephanie Cook, vice president for development at the National Audubon Society, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at the Pratt Institute, in New York.

Jackie Davis, director of advancement at Northwestern College, in Iowa, has been named vice president for advancement.

Marion Ross Fedrick, president of Albany State University, has been named executive vice president for administration and chief of staff at Georgia State University.

Ian Jacobs, deputy chief strategy officer for the U.S. Department of State, has been named university strategy officer at Kansas State University.

Marsha McGriff, chief diversity officer and senior adviser to the president at the University of Florida, has been named vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Ben Melson, director of advocacy at Moak Casey LLC, has been named vice chancellor for strategic engagement and communications at Lone Star College, in Texas.

Mary Elizabeth Miles, interim vice president for human resources at Ohio University, has been named to the post permanently.

Sheri Neshiem, assistant vice president for human resources at the University of South Florida, has been named vice chancellor and chief human-resources officer at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

David A. Ortiz, vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Title IX coordinator at Texas Lutheran University, has been named vice president for equity, accountability, and inclusive excellence at Southwestern University, in Texas.

Alison Scott-Williams, president since 2020 of Studio in a School NYC, in New York, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Lawrence University, in Wisconsin.

Ashley Woods, interim vice president for information technology at East Georgia State College, has been named to the post permanently.

Retirements
Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, has retired. Jeff Strohl, co-founder and director of research at the center, has been named director.

DEANS
Appointments
Nicole Bromfield, associate dean of academic affairs in the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, has been named dean of the College of Health and Human Performance at East Carolina University.

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, interim dean of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, has been named to the post permanently.

Heather Bush, acting dean since June 2022 of the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, has been named to the post permanently.

Monica J. Casper, special assistant to the president on gender-based violence and a professor of sociology at San Diego State University, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seattle University.

Alina Chircu, a professor and former interim dean of business at Bentley University, in Massachusetts, has been named dean of the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico.

Leah Fullman, founding dean of the College of Health Sciences at Faulkner University, in Alabama, has been named dean of the School of Speech-Language Pathology at Pepperdine University, in California.

Subhashini Ganapathy, a professor and chair of the department of biomedical, industrial, and human-factors engineering at Wright State University, in Ohio, has been named dean of the College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies.

Frank D. Golom, interim dean of Loyola University Maryland’s school of arts and sciences since the summer of 2023, has been named to the post permanently.

Debra L. Jackson, associate vice president for academic affairs and dean of academic programs at California State University at Bakersfield, has been named dean of the Graduate School at East Carolina University.

Cherisse Jones-Branch, dean of the Graduate School at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Communication.

Darren Kew, a professor and former chair of the department of conflict resolution, human security, and global governance, and executive director of the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, has been named dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.

Erik Lowry, associate professor in the School of Education at Francis Marion University, in South Carolina, has been named dean of the school.

Marc E. Morris, interim dean since January 2023 of the College of Business and Analytics at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has been named to the post permanently.

Jenny Roberts, a professor of law and co-director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law, has been named dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, in New York.

Kamau Siwatu, a professor of educational psychology and interim associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, has been named interim dean of the college.

Resignations
Judith Kelley, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, plans to step down at the end of the academic year.

Glen Krutz, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, plans to step down and return to the faculty.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Jennifer Baker, former director of fiscal and administrative services at the University of Maine at Orono, has been named assistant vice president for research finance and administration.

Brandi Frisby, acting dean of the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, has been named associate provost for academic affairs.

Colin Gallagher, interim director since August 2023 of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University, in South Carolina, has been named to the post permanently.

Wilbur Lam, a professor of pediatrics at Emory University’s School of Medicine and a professor and chair in Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s joint Wallace H. Coulter department of biomedical engineering, has been named vice provost for entrepreneurship at Emory.

Cecilia M. Smith, a professor and interim academic chair in the department of medicine at Drexel University’s College of Medicine, has been named associate dean of the Pennsylvania university’s Tower Health Regional Campus.

Renee Wells, assistant vice president for education for equity and inclusion at Middlebury College, in Vermont, has been named assistant vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina.

ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Anna Drake Warshaw, managing director of the University Innovation Alliance, has been named president of the Associated Colleges of the South.

DEATHS
David Egilman, a clinical professor of family medicine at Brown University who served as an expert witness in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, died earlier this year. He was 72.

Peter Higgs, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, who proposed the existence of the “God particle,” died on April 8. He was 94. Higgs shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.

Herbert Kroemer, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara, died on March 8. He was 95.

David Roselle, a former president of the University of Kentucky and the University of Delaware, died on April 15. He was 84.

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