The Rev. Brian Friedrich will become president of Concordia U. at St. Paul.
Chief executives
Appointments
Paul Arcario,provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at City University of New York LaGuardia Community College, has been named interim president. He will replace Gail O. Mellow, who plans to step down in August.
Gordon Burns,president emeritus of Wilkes Community College and interim president of Vance-Granville Community College, has been named interim president of Guilford Technical Community College. He will replace Randy Parker, who plans to retire.
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The Rev. Brian Friedrich will become president of Concordia U. at St. Paul.
Chief executives
Appointments
Paul Arcario,provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at City University of New York LaGuardia Community College, has been named interim president. He will replace Gail O. Mellow, who plans to step down in August.
Gordon Burns,president emeritus of Wilkes Community College and interim president of Vance-Granville Community College, has been named interim president of Guilford Technical Community College. He will replace Randy Parker, who plans to retire.
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Berenecea Johnson Eanes,vice president for student affairs at California State University at Fullerton, has been named interim president of City University of New York, York College. She will replace Marcia V. Keizs, who will become a university professor at CUNY Bronx Community College.
The Rev. Brian Friedrich,president of Concordia University, Nebraska, will become president of Concordia University at St. Paul on January 1. He will succeed the Rev. Tom Ries, who has retired.
Daniel Lemons,a professor emeritus of biology and interim dean of academic affairs at City University of New York Herbert H. Lehman College, has been named interim president.
Eugene McAllister,president emeritus of the University of Providence, has been named interim president of Saint John’s University, in Minnesota. He will replace Michael Hemesath, who plans to step down in August.
Rey Rivera,vice president for learning at Estrella Mountain Community College, has been named president. He succeeds Ernest Lara, who plans to retire.
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Resignations
Tom Bogart,president of Maryville College since 2010, plans to step down in June 2020.
Retirements
Philip L. Dubois,chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 2005, plans to retire on June 30, 2020.
Sister Elise Kriss,president of the University of Saint Francis, in Indiana, since 1993, plans to retire next June.
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Chief academic officers
Appointments
Lori Berquam,an American Council on Education fellow in the office of the provost and vice president for academic affairs the University of Arizona, has been named executive vice president for academic and student affairs at Mesa Community College.
Sheila Smith McKoy,chair of the department of English at Kennesaw State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Holy Names University.
Corey Stilts,an associate professor of chemistry at Elmira College, has been named provost.
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Other top administrators
Appointments
Jeffery T. Burgin Jr.,former acting vice president for enrollment management and student engagement at Kentucky State University, has been named vice president for student affairs at Talladega College.
Jason Carter,associate vice president for research at Michigan Technological University, will become vice president for research, economic development, and graduate education at Montana State University on September 3.
Khalilah Doss,vice president for student life and dean of students at McPherson College in Kansas, will become vice president for student affairs at the University of Southern Indiana on August 13.
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Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez,director of admission at Choate Rosemary Hall, will become vice president and dean of admission and financial aid at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, in August.
Deidra Hill
Deidra Hill,vice president for marketing and external relations at Alvernia University, has been named vice president for government relations and external affairs.
Elizabeth Lambert, former dean of student success and chief retention officer at Keuka College, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Elmira College.
John McCloskey,vice president for enrollment management at Alvernia University, has been named senior vice president and chief of staff.
Kevin Reynolds,assistant vice president for advancement at Thomas More University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement.
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Jonathan Sauls,associate vice chancellor and dean of students for student affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named interim vice chancellor for student affairs.
Julianne Wallace,assistant to the president for mission and director of campus ministry at Alvernia University, has been named vice president for mission and ministry.
Richard R. White,deputy secretary for public safety in the office of the governor of New York, has been named interim vice chancellor for compliance and audit at the City University of New York.
John B. Wilson
John B. Wilson,director of enterprise information systems at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named vice president and chief information officer for Spelman Technology Services at Spelman College.
Andrea Young,acting dean of students at Ripon College, has been named vice president for finance and director of strategic initiatives.
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Deans
Appointments
Suzanne Barbour,dean of the Graduate School at the University of Georgia, will become dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 3.
Melissa Begg,a professor of biostatistics in the Irving Medical Center and vice provost for academic programs at Columbia University, will become dean of the Columbia School of Social Work and on September 1.
Tiffani L. Blake,dean of students at the College of New Rochelle, has been named interim dean of students for the Long Island and New York City campuses of the New York Institute of Technology.
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Steven Breese,dean of the College of Arts, Communication and Design at Long Island University-C.W. Post, has been named artistic director and dean of the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University.
Lisandra R. Carmichael,associate dean of library at the University of North Florida, has been named dean of university libraries at Georgia Southern University.
Andrea D. Jackson,interim dean of the College of Dentistry at Howard University, has been named to the post permanently.
Mary Louise Lo Re
Mary Louise Lo Re,former director of business experiential learning and internships in the Nicolais School of Business at Wagner College, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Business at Touro College.
Ryan Schroeder,a professor and chair of sociology at the University of Louisville, has been named dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University.
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Resignations
Kimberly Leonard,dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville, plans to step down at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.
Robert Shay,dean of the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will take a leave of absence to continue medical treatment before stepping down in October 2020.
Retirements
Ron Rosati,dean of the University of Nebraska’s Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis, plans to retire in August.
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Department chairs
Appointments
Nigel W. Bunnett,a professor of surgical sciences, surgical, and pharmacology and vice chair of research in surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, will become chair of the department of basic science and craniofacial biology in the College of Dentistry at the New York University on October 1.
André V. Ritter,executive associate dean of the Adams School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become chair of the department of cariology and comprehensive care in the College of Dentistry at the New York University on November 1.
Other administrators
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Appointments
Emily Almas,associate dean and director of recruitment at Swarthmore College, has been named assistant vice provost and director of admissions at Washington University in St. Louis.
Veronica Alvarez,director of school and teacher programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been named director of the CalArts Community Arts Partnership at the California Institute of the Arts.
John Doncevic
John Doncevic,college librarian at Geneva College, has been named university librarian and director of the Warren Library at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Susan Johnson,assistant vice president for academic affairs at Oklahoma State University at Tulsa, has been named associate vice president for academic affairs.
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William Kramer,senior associate director for the Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Dolly Martínez,deputy to the president and assistant vice president for college affairs at Hostos Community College, has been named chief of staff and associate vice chancellor for the executive office at City University of New York.
Drew Martorella,executive director of UCCS Presents at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has been named assistant vice president and managing director of the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University.
Karlina Matthews,associate chair for administration in the department of psychiatry at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named associate dean for administration in the School of Medicine.
Matt Munsey,director of admissions at Mary Baldwin University, has been named associate vice president for undergraduate admissions.
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Marisa Anne Pagnattaro,associate dean of research and graduate programs in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, has been named vice provost for academic affairs.
Laurie Panella,chief information officer for Milwaukee County, has been named chief information officer at Marquette University.
The Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis,director of communications at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion at the Pacific School of Religion, has been named an assistant professor of social transformation and director of social transformation programs at the United Theological Seminary.
Alexandra Schimmer,deputy general counsel at Ohio State University and former solicitor general for the state of Ohio, has been named general counsel at Denison University.
Loretta Shields,executive director of benefits, wellness, and compliance at Kent State University, has been named assistant vice president for human resources at New College of Florida.
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Resignations
Sonal Shah,founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, will take a leave of absence to become national policy director for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign.
Faculty
Appointments
Sienna Craig,an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, has been named resident professor for South House.
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Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick,founder and director of the nonprofit organization Diversity Access Pipeline has been named a visiting professor of constitutional law at the Tampa Bay campus of Western Michigan University-Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
David G. Hunter,a professor of Catholic studies at the University of Kentucky, has been named a professor of Catholic theology at Boston College.
Pietro (Pete) Savo,chair of criminal justice and homeland-security management at Dean College and a part-time faculty member in the College of Health and Human Services at Trident University International, has been named a full professor of homeland security at the university.
Retirements
Hazel V. Carby,a professor emerita of African-American studies and American studies at Yale University, has retired from full-time teaching after serving 30 years on the Yale faculty.
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Organizations
Appointments
Patricia Arredondo,president of the Arredondo Advisory Group and faculty fellow with Fielding Graduate University, has been named chair of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.
Mary E. Choi,a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected president of the Korean American Medical Association.
Deaths
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Brother F. Edward Coughlin,president of Siena College, died on July 30 following complications from heart surgery. He was 71. Coughlin became president in 2014 and recently announced his intention to step down next year.
Christian Guilleminault,a professor and sleep expert at the Stanford University School of Medicine, died on July 9. He was 80. Guilleminault co-founded the Sleep Research Society’s journal, Sleep, coined the term “obstructive sleep apnea syndrome,” and helped establish the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center.
Cathy Inglese,an assistant women’s basketball coach at Hofstra University, died on July 24 after a traumatic brain injury from a fall. She was 60. Inglese was the women’s basketball coach at Boston College from 1993 to 2008. She also coached at the University of Vermont, the University of Rhode Island, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
James P. Johnston,a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, died on July 13. He was 88. Johnston joined the faculty at Stanford as an assistant professor in 1961.
Richard A. Macksey,a professor emeritus of humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, died on July 22. He was 87. Macksey helped launch the Johns Hopkins Humanities Center, now the department of comparative thought and literature, in 1966 and served as its director from 1970 to 1982. He taught courses across a variety of subjects, which included critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies.
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Harrison B. Wilson Jr.,former president of Norfolk State University, died on July 28. He was 94. Wilson was president of the university from 1975 to 1997.