Transitions: College of DuPage Makes Interim Chief Permanent, New Provost at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison

Chief executives

Appointments

Michael Bernstein, provost at Stony Brook University, has been named interim president. He will replace Samuel L. Stanley Jr., who will step down to become president of Michigan State University.

Brian W. Caputo, interim president of the College of DuPage since Ann Rondeau stepped down in December 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

George T. French Jr., president of Miles College, has been named president of Clark Atlanta University. He will replace Lucille Maugé, who has served as interim president since Ronald Johnson’s resignation in December.

Kathleen Harring, provost at Muhlenberg College, has been named interim president following John I. Williams Jr.'s resignation.

Dennis L. Hefner, a former president of State University of New York at Fredonia and interim president at State University of New York College at Potsdam, has been named interim president at Fredonia. He will replace Virginia Schaefer Horvath, who plans to retire.

Anne Holton, a former secretary of education for Virginia, will become interim president of George Mason University on August 1. She will replace Ángel Cabrera, who will become president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Deidra Peaslee, vice president for academic and student affairs at Anoka Ramsey Community College, has been named interim president of Saint Paul College following Rassoul Dastmozd’s retirement.

Stephen Percy, dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University, has been named interim president. He has been serving as acting president since the resignation of Rahmat Shoureshi in May.

Arturo Reyes, president of Mendocino-Lake Community College District, has been named superintendent and president of Rio Hondo College. He will succeed Teresa Dreyfuss, who retired on June 30.

Resignations

Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, president of Bennett College since 2017, has stepped down.

Andrea Miller, president of LeMoyne-Owen College since 2015, will step down on September 1.

David Yellen, president of Marist College since 2016, plans to step down. Dennis J. Murray, president emeritus of the college, has been named interim president.

Retirements

Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, president of Rosemont College since 2006, will retire on May 31, 2020.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Ryan Hartnett, interim vice president for academic affairs at Villa Maria College since July 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Carol Parker, senior adviser for academic affairs at the University of Texas at El Paso, will become provost at New Mexico State University on July 22.

Michael J. Reed, vice president for academic operations and associate provost at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been named vice president for academic affairs and provost.

John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will become provost at the university on August 5.

Cameron Wesson, a professor of sociology and anthropology and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, has been named provost and dean of the faculty at Franklin & Marshall College.

Retirements

Mark Bebensee, a professor of economics and interim provost at The Citadel, plans to retire after 42 years with the university.

Other top administrators

Appointments

James M. (Jamie) Bessette, vice president for enrollment management and marketing at the University of Rio Grande, has been named vice president for advancement at the College of Coastal Georgia.

Eric Blumenthal, interim vice president for finance and administration at Portland Community College, has been named to the post permanently.

Tricia Brand, interim chief diversity officer at Portland Community College, has been named to the post permanently.

Floyd Cheung, a professor of English language and literature and American studies at Smith College, has been named vice president for equity and inclusion.

André L. Churchwell, chief diversity officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center and senior associate dean for diversity affairs in the School of Medicine, has been named interim vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Vanderbilt University.

Karen Engelbourg, vice president for development at Boston University, will become senior vice president for development and alumni relations on October 1.

Stephanie Mills Graham, interim general counsel at Northwestern University, has been named vice president and general counsel.

Paula Lee Hobson, vice president for university advancement at Plymouth State University, will become vice president for college advancement at Hartwick College on August 1.

Matt Lentsch, executive director of organizational advancement at the Oaklawn Foundation, will become vice president for institutional advancement at Bethel University on July 8.

Rafael Martín, associate vice president for research at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been named vice president and chief of staff at the university.

Denise Wingate Materre, a consultant to for-profit, nonprofit and educational organizations as the owner of Denise Materre Consulting, will become vice president for alumnae relations at Smith College on August 26.

Mike Sherman, special assistant to the president at Youngstown State University, has been named vice president for institutional effectiveness and board professional.

Resignations

Wanda Ford, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Florida A&M University, resigned on June 7.

Deans

Appointments

Naira Campbell-Kyureghyan, chair of the industrial and manufacturing engineering department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, has been named dean of the School of Science and Engineering at Merrimack College.

Anne Curzan, associate dean for the humanities in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, will become dean of the college on September 1.

Susan Freiwald, interim dean of the School of Law at the University of San Francisco, has been named to the post permanently.

Reed Kroloff, principal at the Chicago-based design firm Jones Kroloff, will become dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology on August 1.

Jamshid Mohammadi, a professor of civil and architectural engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has been named dean of the Graduate College and vice provost for graduate academic affairs.

Akinlolu O. Ojo, associate vice president for clinical research and global health initiatives and professor of medicine and health promotion sciences at the University of Arizona, will become executive dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas on August 26.

John A. Pelesko, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware since September 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Marc Servetnick, a professor and chair of the STEM division of biological sciences in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics at the University of Washington at Bothell, will become interim dean of the school on September 1.

Michelle Wieser, interim dean of the School of Business at St. Catherine University, has been named dean of the School of Business and Technology at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

Clarence Williamson, an adjunct professor at Anderson University, in South Carolina, has been named dean of the School of Public Service and Administration.

Torrey Wilson, an associate professor of clinical psychology in the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, will become dean of the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of Indianapolis on August 1.

Resignations

Carl P. Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, plans to step down at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. He will remain with the school as a strategic management professor.

Department chairs

Appointments

Sean McMahon, assistant chair of the film scoring department at Berklee College of Music, will become chair of the department on September 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Raheem Beyah, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for interdisciplinary research.

Robert Butera, associate dean for research and innovation in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for research operations.

Chris Colton, interim director of communications and marketing at Albany Law School, has been named to the post permanently.

L. Blue Dean, executive director of development for the department of medicine and the Duke Heart Center at Duke University, will become executive director of library development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 1.

Becky Freemal, director of communication and creative services at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, has been named director of communication and marketing in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

Jay Gandy, interim dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will become associate provost at the university’s Northwest Regional Campus on August 1.

Carolyn Johnson, director of the diversity resource office and special adviser to the provost at Purdue University at West Lafayette, has been named associate vice provost for diversity and inclusion.

Sharlene D. Newman, a professor in psychological and brain sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Indiana University at Bloomington, has been named executive director of the Alabama Life Research Institute at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Chelsey Watts, assistant director of partnerships and affiliations in the Global Education Office at Virginia Tech, has been named director of global programs and partnerships for the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University.

Faculty

Resignations

Elizabeth Lederer, a part-time lecturer at Columbia University’s Law School and a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, has stepped down from her position at Columbia after statements from the Black Student Organization and the Black Law Student Association. Lederer was a prosecutor in the 1989 “Central Park Five” case, recently portrayed in the Netflix series When They See Us.

Organizations

Appointments

Andy Goodman, a former legislative director for the governor of Arkansas, has been named president and chief executive of the Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities.

Deaths

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, a professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California at San Diego, died on June 9. She was 84. Barrett-Connor founded the Rancho Bernardo Study in 1972, which focused on lipids, a fatty substance in blood that can cause heart disease. She arrived at the university in 1970 as an assistant professor of community medicine.

Howard J. Burnett, president emeritus of Washington & Jefferson College, died on June 16. He was 89. Burnett served as president of the college from 1970 to 1998, and oversaw the introduction of the college’s first female students and faculty members.

Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University since 1969, died on June 11. He was 79. He also served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ronald Reagan and as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research for nearly 30 years.

M. Nazmul Karim, a professor and head of the department of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University, died on June 21.

James B. Wyngaarden, a professor emeritus and former chair of the department of medicine at Duke University, died on June 14. He was 94. Wyngaarden left Duke from 1982 to 1989 to be director of the National Institutes of Health, then returned to the university as associate vice chancellor for health affairs from 1990 to 1994.

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