Transitions: First Female President for Colorado State U., New Provost at U. of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Chief executives

Appointments

Mike Allen, vice president for student affairs at the Catholic University of America, will become president of Barry University on July 1. He will succeed Sister Linda Bevilacqua, who plans to retire. Allen will be the first male layperson to lead the university.

Helen Benjamin, former chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District, has been named interim superintendent/president of Santa Barbara City College.

Jay Carraway, vice president for continuing education at Lenoir Community College, will become president of James Sprunt Community College on April 29. He will replace Kenneth Boham, who has served as interim president since Lawrence Rouse left to become president of Pitt Community College in August 2018.

Laurie Chesley, provost and executive vice president for academic and student affairs at Grand Rapids Community College, will become president of Central Oregon Community College on July 1. She will succeed Shirley Metcalf, who plans to retire.

Thomas S. Hibbs, dean of the Honors College and a professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University, will become president of the University of Dallas on July 1. He will replace John Plotts, who has served as interim president since Thomas W. Keefe was removed by the Board of Trustees last year.

Kevin James, interim chief executive of the nonprofit organization 100 Black Men of America, has been named interim president of Morris Brown College.

Joyce McConnell, provost and vice president for academic affairs at West Virginia University, will become president of Colorado State University on July 1. She will be the university’s first female president and will succeed Tony Frank, who will step down from the president’s role to become chancellor of the Colorado State University system full time.

Ryan Ruda, interim president of Garden City Community College, has been named to the post permanently.

Walter Tribley, superintendent/president of the Monterey Peninsula College, will become president of the Northern Wyoming Community College District on July 1. He will succeed Paul Young, who plans to retire.

Resignations

Bruce W. Ferguson, president of Otis College of Art and Design since 2015, has stepped down.

Cecil P. Staton, chancellor of East Carolina University since 2016, plans to step down on May 3. He will remain as an adviser to the president and interim chancellor through June 30.

Retirements

Jim J. Adams, president of Life Pacific College since 2013, plans to retire on December 31.

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, president of State University of New York College at Old Westbury since 1999, plans to retire in early 2020.

Gary McGaha, president of Atlanta Metropolitan State College since 2007, plans to retire on June 30.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Lance Askildson, vice provost and chief international officer at Kennesaw State University, will become provost at Chaminade University on July 1.

Marcella David, visiting professor of law at Florida State University and former provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida A&M University, will become senior vice president and provost at Columbia College Chicago on June 3.

Nancy S. Niemi, director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at Yale University, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in July.

Michael Hunter Schwartz, dean of the McGeorge School of Law at University of the Pacific, has been named interim provost of the university.

Christopher VanOrman, dean of natural sciences at Hillsdale College, has been named provost.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Arlene Cash, vice president for enrollment management at Guilford College, has been named the first vice president for enrollment management at Frostburg State University.

Kathleen M. Christy, vice president for institutional advancement at D’Youville College, will become vice president for institutional advancement at Hilbert College on May 1.

Adam Gerdts, associate dean of advancement in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Yeshiva University.

Lisa Goodnight, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and senior dean of students at Purdue University Northwest, has been named vice chancellor for institutional advancement.

Anna Krupitskiy, director of faculty appointments at City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College, has been named vice president for human resources at Hudson County Community College.

Diane E. Lopez, deputy general counsel at Harvard University, has been named vice president and general counsel.

Bill Woodson, assistant dean of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, has been named dean of outreach, engagement and inclusion and chief diversity officer at New College of Florida.

Retirements

Craig Wruck, vice president for university advancement and executive director of the advancement foundation at Humboldt State University, plans to retire on May 1.

Deans

Appointments

Norma Bouchard, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University.

Hope Davis, interim dean of the School of Education at Indiana University at South Bend, has been named to the post permanently.

Neil Fulton, a federal public defender for North Dakota and South Dakota on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, will become dean of the University of South Dakota School of Law in June.

Jennifer Hammat, Title IX coordinator for the Compliance, Diversity, and Ethics Office at George Mason University, will become dean of students at the University of Southern Indiana on May 6.

Beth A. Longenecker, associate dean of clinical education and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, will become the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine on June 1.

Brad Rundquist, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences the University of North Dakota, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Tim Cresswell, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Trinity College, in Connecticut, will become the Ogilvie chair and professor of human geography at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, on July 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Jennifer Aamodt, interim director of university admissions at the University of North Dakota, has been named to the role permanently.

Paula Agudelo, professor of plant pathology at Clemson University, has been named associate dean in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.

Adrienne Davis, vice provost and a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named founding director of the university’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity.

Andrew Green, associate head basketball coach at Westminster College, in Missouri, has been named director of student involvement.

Katherine Hutchinson, a professor of nursing at Boston College, has been named associate dean of graduate programs and research at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing.

Stephen M. Massini, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Penn State Health, Pennsylvania State University’s network of hospitals, has been named chief executive of the system.

Shariq Siddiqui, executive director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, has been named the first director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Kosali Simon, a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University at Bloomington, has been named associate vice provost for health sciences at the university.

The Rev. Joseph V. Thelusca, senior pastor at Mount Olivet Church in Neptune, N.J., has been named special adviser to the provost at Seton Hall University.

Resignations

Amy Foerster, will step down as general counsel and chief of staff at Bucknell University to become a partner and co-chair of the Higher Education Practice Group at the law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP on May 1.

Faculty

Appointments

Cynt Marshall, chief executive of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has been named sports executive in residence at High Point University.

Julie Reed, an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has been named an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University at University Park.

Tenure awards

The following professors were awarded tenure at their institutions. If a faculty rank is not included, the faculty member is being promoted to the rank of associate professor. The changes take effect on varying dates.

Colorado College

Krista D. Fish, anthropology

Santiago Ivan Guerra, Southwest studies

Dennis McEnnerney, philosophy

Dylan Sutton Nelson, film and media studies

Manya Whitaker, education

Muhlenberg College

Erika Bagley, psychology

Benjamin Carter, sociology and anthropology

Lindsey Nagy, economics

Whittier College

Kristen Smirnov, marketing

Changes in rank

Professors’ new ranks follow.

Ayesha Shaikh, associate professor of clinical psychology at Whittier College, to professor

Steed Vernyl Davidson, associate professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary, to professor

Awards

Karen Uhlenbeck, professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin and visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J., will receive the 2019 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters’ Nobel-level mathematics prize. She is the first woman to win the prize, which carries an award of nearly $700,000.

Organizations

Appointments

Stephanie Fabritius, a professor of biology and former vice president for academic affairs at Centre College, will become president of the Associated Colleges of the South on July 1.

Deaths

Clifford D. Alper, faculty member emeritus at Towson University, died on February 27. He was 87. Alper taught classical music literature and music education until his retirement in 1996.

John William Bardo, president of Wichita State University since 2012, died on March 12. He was 70 years old. Bardo first arrived at the university as an assistant professor of sociology in the 1970s and returned after he served as chancellor of Western Carolina University from 1995 to 2011. As president of Wichita State, Bardo oversaw the expansion of the campus with the creation of the Innovation Campus.

Ann G. Candler, an adjunct faculty member in the department of English at Baltimore City Community College from 1988 to 2012, died on February 27. She was 91.

Alan Krueger, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University best known for his work on the minimum wage, died on March 16. He was 58. In addition to his work at Princeton, where he joined the faculty in 1987, Krueger served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury and chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, and as chief economist at the Department of Labor during the Clinton administration. He wrote books on a wide range of economic subjects, including Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton University Press, 1995) with David Card, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism (Princeton University Press, 2007), and the forthcoming Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life (Currency, 2019).

Dean A. Miller, professor emeritus of history at the University of Rochester, died on January 28. He was 87. Miller published three books and the last, The Epic Hero (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), came out after his retirement in 1993.

John Young Song, assistant professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, died of pancreatic cancer on February 27. He was 55. Song worked at the university’s Center for Bioethics since 2000 and ran Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, a free medical clinic that he founded to provide care for those without adequate insurance and experience for student volunteers.

Sidney Verba, professor emeritus and research professor of government at Harvard University, died on March 4. He was 86. Verba served as director of Harvard’s University Library from 1984 to 2007 and associate dean of undergraduate education for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1981 to 1984. He published several books with various co-authors, including Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton University Press, 1993) with Gary King and Robert O. Keohane.

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