Transitions: Former President Returns to West Virginia U. Institute of Technology, Carnegie Fellows Named

Chief executives

Appointments

Les P. Cook, vice president for strategic university partnerships at Michigan Technological University, will become chancellor of Montana Technological University on July 1. He will succeed Don Blackketter, who plans to retire.

Kimberly Dale, executive vice president of Western Nebraska Community College, has been named president of Western Wyoming Community College. She will succeed Karla Leach, who plans to retire.

Galen DeHay, senior vice president at Tri-County Technical College, will become president on July 1. He will succeed Ronnie Booth, who plans to retire.

Jacqueline M. Gill, former president of the Blue River campus of Metropolitan Community College, in Missouri, will become president of Danville Community College in July. She will replace Betty Jo Foster, who has served as interim president since Bruce Scism retired at the end of 2018.

Carolyn Long, interim chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, will return as president of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology on May 16. Long left the technology campus to lead the commission in July 2018.

Kent MacDonald, president of St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia, Canada, will become president of Northwood University, in Michigan, on August 1. He will succeed Keith Pretty, who plans to retire.

Michael Seymour, vice president for academic and student affairs at Lake Superior College, will become president of Alexandria Technical and Community College on July 1. He will succeed Laura Urban, who plans to retire.

Anne A. Skleder, senior vice president and provost and a professor of psychology at Wilkes University, will become president of Brenau University on July 1. She will be the first woman to lead the university and will succeed Ed L. Schrader.

Finis E. St. John, interim chancellor of the University of Alabama system since August 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Daan Braveman, president of Nazareth College since 2005, plans to step down in June 2020.

Brother Norman Hipps, president of Saint Vincent College since 2010, plans to step down in June.

Rebecca Chopp, chancellor of the University of Denver since 2014, plans to step down on July 14, citing serious health concerns. Jeremy Haefner, provost and executive vice chancellor at the university, will serve as interim chancellor, and Chopp will be named chancellor emerita.

Thomas Kruczek, president of Notre Dame College, in Ohio, since 2014, plans to step down on June 30.

The Rev. Sean O. Sheridan, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville since 2013, plans to step down at the end of the academic year.

Mariko Silver, president of Bennington College since 2013, will step down on July 1 to become president and chief executive of the Henry Luce Foundation. Isabel Roche, provost and dean of the college, will serve as interim president.

Retirements

Katharine Winograd, president of Central New Mexico Community College since 2007, plans to retire by June 2020.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Carol Kim, associate vice chancellor for academic innovation and partnerships at the University of Maine system office, will become provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University at Albany on August 1.

Maryanne Reed, dean of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the university.

Alisa J. Rosenthal, associate provost, dean of sciences and education, and special assistant to the president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Gustavus Adolphus College, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Randolph-Macon College.

Beth K. Roth, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Alvernia University, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of St. Francis, in Illinois, on July 1.

Stephanie J. Rowley, associate vice president for research at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been named provost, dean of the college, and vice president for academic affairs at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Julie H. Sandell, senior associate provost at Boston University, will become senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Suffolk University on August 1.

Minou Djawdan Spradley, former acting vice president for instruction at San Diego City College, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Southwestern College, in California.

Daren Timmons, interim provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, will become permanent provost on July 1.

Alan Utter, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Texas Woman’s University, has been named provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Timothy Anderson, interim vice president for advancement and strategic partnerships at Whittier College, has been named to the role permanently.

Adrian Breitfeld, chief financial officer of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, will become vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at the American Jewish University on June 1.

Fran’Cee Brown-McClure, dean of students at Spelman College, will become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Union College, in New York, on July 1.

George Cangiano, interim vice president and chief human resources officer at Bentley University, has been named to the post permanently.

Allia L. Carter, vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Virginia Union University, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Rock Carter, interim director of athletics at Whittier College, has been named director of athletics and special assistant to the president.

Trent Gilbert, vice president for enrollment management and communications at Monmouth College, will become vice president for enrollment management at Birmingham-Southern College on June 1.

Mark D. Henderson, chief information officer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will become chief information officer and vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh in June.

Dwight B. Sanchez, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of the District of Columbia, will become vice president for enrollment management at Hilbert College on July 1.

Resignations

Julie Dolan, executive vice president and treasurer at Clark University, will step down to become chief financial officer at Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts.

Deans

Appointments

Alastair Cribb, former dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, in Canada, will become dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University on July 15.

Stephanie Gray, workforce program development director at Gallatin College at Montana State University, will become dean of the college on July 1.

Mary Anne Krogh, dean of nursing and health sciences at Mount Marty College, will become dean of the College of Nursing at South Dakota State University in July.

Anita K. Krug, a professor of law at the University of Washington, will become dean of the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology on August 1.

bruce d. mcclung, an associate professor of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, will become dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on July 14.

Craig Ogilvie, assistant dean of the Graduate College at Iowa State University, will become dean of the Graduate School and associate vice president at Montana State University at Bozeman on August 1.

Nicola Boothe Perry, associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Law at Florida A&M University, has been named interim dean of the college.

Brian Primack, dean of the Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh main campus, will become dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on July 1.

Miguel (Mickey) Quiñones, professor and chair of the department of management and organizations in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, will become dean of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond on July 1.

Sanjay Raman, associate vice president for the National Capital Region of Virginia Tech and president and chief executive of the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, will become dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in August.

Elaine Scott, dean of the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Washington at Bothell, will become dean of the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University on August 1.

Larry Snyder, who recently resigned as dean of the Potter College of Arts and Letters at Western Kentucky University, has returned to the post.

Sarah Whiting, dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University, will become dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University on July 1.

Amos Yong, director for the Center for Missiological Research and professor of theology and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, will become dean of the School of Theology and the School of Intercultural Studies on July 1.

Jeremy Youde, an associate professor of international relations and deputy director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at Australian National University, will become dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota at Duluth on July 1.

WeiDong Zhu, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Peter’s University, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Bruce Donoff, dean of the School of Dental Medicine at Harvard University since 1991, plans to step down on January 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

Sister Linda Bevilacqua, president of Barry University, will become the founding director of the Adrian Dominican Institute for Mission and Leadership at the university after she retires as president on June 30.

Mary Pat McMahon, dean of student affairs in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering at Tufts University, will become vice provost and vice president for campus life at Duke University on July 8.

Wade D. Pfau, a professor of retirement income in the financial and retirement-planning program at the American College of Financial Services, has been named director of the Retirement Income Certified Professional program.

Marty Smith, vice president for advancement at Transylvania University, will become senior associate vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on May 28.

Sam Voorhies, president and chief executive of Voorhies International Consulting, has been named director of the Center for Biblical Leadership in the Catherine T. MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Faculty

Appointments

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, has been named a visiting fellow at Bowdoin College.

François Germain, vocal coach and pianist, has been named a faculty member in the voice department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Carnegie Fellows

The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the following 32 Andrew Carnegie Fellows stipends of up to $200,000 each for their research and writing in the humanities and social sciences.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong, a professor of sociology and organizational studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “How Universities Have Failed on Sexual Violence and Why It Matters”

David Autor, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “‘Depopulism:' How the Inversion of the Rural-Urban Age Gradient Shapes the Diverging Economic and Political Geography of the U.S. and other Industrialized Countries”

Zainab Bahrani, a professor of Near Eastern art and archaeology at Columbia University, “Monumental Landscapes: Historical Environments and Human Rights”

Anne Cafer, an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Mississippi, “Transcending Vulnerability: Merging Large-Scale Data Systems and Case-Study Approaches for Innovative Empirical Resilience Modeling in the U.S.”

Margaret Carrel, an associate professor of geographical and sustainable sciences at the University of Iowa, “Understanding Infectious Disease Risk in the Wake of Hurricanes & Floods in the U.S.”

Marcia Chatelain, an associate professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown University, “First-Generation Future: A History of First-Generation College Students and How to Better Serve Them Now”

Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard University, “Restoring the American Dream: Leveraging Big Data to Support Local Policy Change”

William J. Connell, a professor of history and chair of Italian studies at Seton Hall University, “Tracking Migrant Labor in Renaissance Florence”

Melissa L. Cooper, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University at Newark, “‘Cyan’ Help From Cryin’ Sometime': Black Suffering, White Fantasies”

Zack Cooper, an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale University, “Pharmaceutical Pricing and the Market for Biologic Drugs in the U.S.”

Lorrie Faith Cranor, a professor of computer science and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, “Security, Privacy, and Human Behavior”

Jack E. Davis, a professor of history at the University of Florida, “Bird of Paradox: How the Bald Eagle Saved the Soul of America”

John D. Garrigus, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, “‘Macandal is Saved': Disease, Conspiracy, and the Coming of the Haitian Revolution”

Michael Greenstone, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, “A New Approach to Developing Global Estimates of Climate Change’s Impacts”

J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Strengthening Election Cybersecurity With Evidence-based Elections”

Thomas M. Keck, chair of constitutional law and politics at Syracuse University, “Free Expression and Judicial Power”

Young Mie Kim, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Follow the Ad: Understanding Election Interference on Digital Platforms”

Jeff Kosseff, an assistant professor of cyber science at the United States Naval Academy, “United States of Anonymous”

Brian K. Kovak, an associate professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, “Emerging Technologies and Labor Market Disruptions”

Sarah Lamb, a professor of anthropology at Brandeis University, “Successful Aging’s Global Moment: Visions and Dilemmas of Aging Well”

Michèle Lamont, a professor of sociology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard University, “New Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society”

Benjamin Lessing, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, “Inside Out: How Prison Gangs Organize Crime (And Threaten the State) From Behind Bars”

JeeLoo Liu, chair and professor of philosophy at California State University at Fullerton, “Confucian Robotic Ethic”

Pamela McElwee, an associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, “Rivers of Blood, Mountains of Bone: An Environmental History of the Vietnam War and After”

Sally A. Nuamah, an assistant professor of public policy at Duke University, “How the Punishment of Black Women and Girls Affects Our Democracy”

Katharine Ricke, an assistant professor of climate science and policy at the University of California at San Diego, “A Modular Framework for Understanding Migration Pressures from Climate Change”

Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, “Provably Beneficial AI”

Michael B. Silvers, an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Timber and Timbre: From Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the Concert Hall”

Sharece Thrower, an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, “Judicial Constraints on Executive and Presidential Power”

Hanqin Tian, a professor and director of the International Center for Climate and Global Change Research at Auburn University, “Can Asia Feed Its People? - Constraints from Resources, Technology and Economy in the Context of Global Climate Change”

Stewart Weaver, a professor of history at the University of Rochester, “Climate Witness: Voices from Ladakh”

Sera L. Young, an assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, “A New Way to Think About Water: Household Water Insecurity”

Organizations

Appointments

Henry Stoever, chief marketing officer at the National Association of Corporate Directors, will become president and chief executive of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges on July 1.

Deaths

Douglas A. Fenderson, a professor emeritus in the department of family practice and community health at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Medical School, died on February 10. Fenderson also served as director of the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and director of Continuing Medical Education at the university.

Susan K. Nutter, former vice provost and director of libraries at North Carolina State University, died on March 25. Nutter led the university’s libraries from 1987 until her retirement in 2017, and oversaw the opening of the James B. Hunt Jr. Library in 2013, which received the AIA/ALA Library Buildings Award that year. She received several awards for her work at the libraries, including the Association of College and Research Libraries Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award in 1999.

John Peter Robinson, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park, died on March 22. He was 83. Robinson co-authored Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) with Geoffrey Godbey.

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