Transitions: Franklin & Marshall Chooses Its Next Leader, Longtime U. of Texas at El Paso President Will Retire

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Appointments

Barbara K. Altmann, provost of Bucknell University, will become president of Franklin & Marshall College in August. She will succeed Daniel Porterfield, who plans to step down to lead the Aspen Institute. Altmann will be the first woman to hold this position.

Eric C. Brown, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maine at Farmington, will become interim president on July 1. He will take over from Kathryn A. Foster, who is leaving to lead the College of New Jersey.

Michelle Johnston, president of the University of Rio Grande, has been named president of the College of Coastal Georgia. She will replace Margaret A. Amstutz, who is serving as interim president.

Donzell Lee, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Alcorn State University, will become interim president on July 1. He will replace Alfred Rankins Jr., who has been named the first African-American higher education commissioner for Mississippi.

Harlan Patterson, interim president of Bastyr University since July 2017, has been named president.

Jeffrey D. Senese, provost and senior vice president for academic and student affairs at Saint Leo University, has been named acting president. He replaces William J. Lennox Jr., who retired on April 30.

Christopher Villa, vice president for student services at Los Angeles Mission College, will become president of the Rock Creek campus of Portland Community College on August 1. He will succeed Sandra Fowler-Hill, who plans to retire.

Robbyn Wacker, senior campaign adviser and former provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Northern Colorado, will become president of St. Cloud State University on July 1. She will succeed Ashish Vaidya, who has served as interim president since 2016.

Departures

Jaimie Hebert, president of Georgia Southern University since July 2016, plans to step down on June 30. Shelley Clark Nickel, executive vice chancellor for strategy and fiscal affairs for the University System of Georgia and treasurer for the system’s Board of Regents, will serve as interim president.

Susan Herbst, president of the University of Connecticut since 2011 and the first woman to hold this position, will step down in July of 2019.

Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas at El Paso since 1988, plans to retire once her successor is named. During her tenure, enrollment grew from 15,000 to more than 25,000 students, with 80 percent of them Hispanic.

Peter Tsaffaras, president of Quincy College since 2011, plans to resign on June 1 and will be on administrative leave until then. Thomas Koch, mayor of Quincy, Mass., has been named as the temporary “principal executive” of the college.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS

Appointments

Joseph Helble, dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, will become provost in October.

Terry M. Keller, dean of the College of Social Sciences at Lourdes University, will become vice president for academic affairs on July 1.

Jack Paduntin, vice president for academic affairs at the Chicago School Education System has been named chief academic officer.

Karan Hinman Powell, former president of American Public University System, will become interim vice president for academic affairs at Saint Francis University, in Pennsylvania, on June 4.

Lynne Rosansky, interim provost at Bentley University since July 2017, will become provost on July 1.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Donald B. Appiarius, former dean of students at University of Saint Francis, in Indiana, will become vice president for student services at Eastern Wyoming College on July 1.

Uchenna Baker, assistant dean of campus life and director of residence life at Elon University, will become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at University of Puget Sound on July 17.

Regina Biddings-Muro, vice chancellor for institutional advancement at Purdue University Northwest, will become vice president for university advancement at California Lutheran University on August 1.

Jamie Ceman, assistant chancellor for university marketing and communications at Chapman University, became vice president for strategic marketing and communications on February 6.

Don Griffith, founder of Cornerstone Advisory Group, formerly Griffith Financial, and chair of the Board of Trustees at Fresno Pacific University, will become vice president for university advancement at Fresno Pacific and executive director of the FPU Foundation on July 1.

Amy Hass, interim vice president at the University of Florida since July 2017, has been named vice president and general counsel.

Christopher T. Haug, director of residence life at the University of Portland, will become vice president for student affairs at Neumann University in June.

Stephen Hietsch, associate vice president for auxiliary services and budget management at Dickinson College, will become vice president for finance and administration at St. Lawrence University in July.

Debra Polak, dean of centers and interim vice president for educational programs and student services at Mendocino College, has been named vice president for educational programs and student services.

Retirements

Douglas Olson, vice president for student affairs at Triton College, retired from his position. As part of his retirement agreement, the Chicago Tribune reported, Olson received $100,000 in severance and the stipulation that he cannot return to work for the college unless invited.

DEANS

Appointments

Donna Maria Blancero, associate dean at Bentley University, will become interim dean of business and the McCallum Graduate School of Business on July 1.

Monica Moody Moore, associate dean of admissions and academic programs at the Johns Hopkins University, has been named dean of graduate admissions at the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Rick Oches, chair of the department of natural and applied sciences at Bentley University, will become dean of arts and sciences on July 1.

Karen Plaut, interim dean of the College of Agriculture at Purdue University, has been appointed to the position permanently.

Adriana Popescu, interim dean of library services at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo since 2016, will become dean on June 1.

Robert Rezendes, associate dean of library services at Bristol Community College, has been named dean of the Bristol Community College Taunton Center.

Linda Schadler, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education and professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont.

Kelly M. Smith, associate dean for academic and student affairs at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, will become dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia on August 1.

Katherine Snyder, interim dean of the College of Engineering and Science at University of Detroit Mercy, became dean on May 7.

Chris Tombari, associate dean of academic affairs at the School of Liberal Arts at the Community College of Aurora, has been named dean of academic affairs.

Randolph Wilt, human-resources management program director and program director of international business at Concordia University Texas, has been named dean of the College of Business and Communication.

Resignations

H. Elizabeth Braun, dean of students at Swarthmore College, plans to resign. This follows protests led by the student group Organizing For Survivors against Braun and the handling of sexual-assault cases by the college.

Retirements

David Weissenburger, interim dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at Tarleton State University, has retired. He started at the university in 1999 as an associate professor of psychology and counseling, and held various positions over the years, including department head, associate vice president for enrollment management, and chief of staff.

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Appointments

Linda Hagan, a professor of marketing at Walsh College, will become a professor and chairperson of the department of business at Aquinas College in August.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Kelvin Bentley, former vice president for academic affairs at Tarrant County College Connect Campus in Fort Worth, has been named assistant vice president for digital learning and innovation at the University of West Florida.

Russell Furr, deputy director of environmental health and safety and director of research safety at Stanford University, will become associate vice provost and director of environmental health and safety on July 1.

Alison S. Gregory, associate dean and director of library services at Lycoming College, will become university librarian at Marymount University on July 2.

Karen Ruiz León, advancement communications and engagement associate at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, has been named community-outreach counselor for enrollment services at Berkshire Community College.

Margaret Miller, deputy vice president for alumni affairs, has been appointed deputy vice president for volunteer engagement at Princeton University, a new role that encompasses both alumni affairs and development.

Kurt Peterson, assistant vice president for principal gifts at Loyola University Chicago, has been named executive director of the College of Lake County Foundation.

Erika Shubin, public-relations and marketing manager at Utah Transit Authority, has been named the first director of strategic communications and public relations at Salt Lake Community College.

Robert Young, a consultant for Michigan State University during the Larry Nassar investigations and a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, will become general counsel for Michigan State University on June 1.

Departures

Jose Bañales, police director at the Texas State University Police Department, has resigned. Rickey Lattie, a captain with the university’s police department, will serve as interim police director.

Sergio Garcia, chief of staff at State University of New York Upstate Medical University, resigned after it was revealed that assertions he made about his experiences in Afghanistan were not true.

Marty Naugle, staff accountant at University of Mobile, has retired. She has worked at the university since 2001.

Curt Sawyer, associate vice president for university services at the University of Central Florida, has resigned. This came after Sawyer was found through an internal investiagion to have violated the state ethics code.

Sheahon Zenger, athletics director at the University of Kansas since 2011, has been removed from his position. Sean Lester, deputy athletics director, will serve as interim director.

FACULTY

Appointments

Jonathan A. Czuba, a doctorate recipient in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been named assistant professor of biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech.

David Franklyn, director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law and a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, will join the faculty of the School of Law and the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University.

Jamal Greene, a professor at Columbia University Law School, has been named a visiting scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Clinton Neill, a doctorate recipient in agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, has been named assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Departures

Steve Carey, associate professor of biology at the University of Mobile, has retired. He has worked at the university since 1982, when it was named Mobile College.

Robert Wielgus, director of the Carnivore Conservation Lab at Washington State University, is leaving his position on the faculty after accepting a $300,000 settlement for the lawsuit he filed against the university. Wielgus alleged “infringement of his academic freedom” after the state cut funding for his research on wolf behavior.

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.

Purdue U. Northwest

Taryn Eastland, nursing

Janet Garwood, nursing

Wei He, management and strategy

CHANGES IN RANK

Professors’ new ranks follow.

Bethany College

Daniel J. Masterson, associate professor of music, to professor

Kristin Van Tassel, associate professor of English, to professor

Purdue U. Northwest

Arifin Angriawan, associate professor of strategic management, to professor

Lizbeth Bryant, associate professor of English, to professor

Chandramouli Viswanathan Chandramouli, associate professor of civil engineering, to professor

Meg Rincker, associate professor of political science, to professor

Steven (Kim) Scipes, associate professor of sociology, to professor

FELLOWSHIPS

Jefferson Science Fellows

Listed below are the 2018-19 Jefferson Science Fellows, who participate in a program run by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Fellows will spend one year at the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C., and remain available as a consultant for the U.S. government.

Weslynne Ashton, an associate professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business

Peter Hirst, a professor of horticulture at Purdue University

June J. Pilcher, a professor of psychology at Clemson University

Stephen E. Silliman, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Gonzaga University

Peter Smallwood, an associate professor of biology at the University of Richmond

Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows

The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows Program awards early-career scholars with $70,000 to support their postdoctoral proposals in the field of education. The 2018 fellows are listed below with their academic affiliations and research projects.

Anjali Adukia, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, “From Retributive to Restorative: Alternative Approaches to Shaping Behavior”

Claire Rydell Arcenas, an assistant professor of American history at the University of Montana at Missoula, “Lockean Legacies: John Locke in American Education, Thought, and Culture”

Maneka Deanna Brooks, an assistant professor of reading education at Texas State University, “Always an ‘English Learner': Learning From the Veterans of EL Educational Systems”

Manuel González Canché, an associate professor of higher education at University of Pennsylvania, “Overcoming the Geography of Disadvantage: A Spillovers Framework to Identify Structural Means to Enhance Community College Students’ Educational Outcomes Despite Their Location”

Yunxiao Chen, an assistant professor of psychology in the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University, “Statistical Dynamic Analysis of Complex Problem-Solving Items: Inference, Prediction, and Intervention”

Julie Cohen, an assistant professor of curriculum, instruction, and special education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, “Simulations in Teacher Education: Analyzing the Potential of a New Tool for Teacher Development and Assessment”

Rajeev Darolia, an associate professor of public policy at the University of Kentucky, “Confined Learning: Who Participates in Education While Incarcerated and What are the Benefits?”

Maren Elfert, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research in the department of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta, “The History of Educational Planning in Developing Countries Through the Lens of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)”

Dania V. Francis, and assistant professor of economics and Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “Gatekeepers: Do School Counselors Exhibit Racial or Gender Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Placement Calculus?”

Terrance L. Green, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the department of educational leadership and policy, “There Goes the Neighborhood: Examining School-Level Impacts and Responses to Gentrification in Three Urban Districts”

Paul Hanselman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, “Situating the Promise of a Growth Mindset within the Structure of School Curricular Opportunities”

J. Bryan Henderson, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, “Development of the Science Dialogue Heuristic: A Framework for Supporting Oral Argumentation”

Ethan Hutt, an assistant professor of teaching and learning, policy, and leadership at the University of Maryland at College Park, “Long-Term Relationships: How Longitudinal Datasets Shaped our Views of Educational Attainment, Inequality, and the American School System”

Adrienne Keene, an assistant professor of American studies and ethnic studies at Brown University, “‘I just had to be there': Native College Student Activists and Their Relationships to the #NoDAPL Movement”

Christina Krist, an assistant professor of science education in the curriculum and instruction department in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “The Role of Trust in Building Science Knowledge: Exploring the Relational Dimension of Epistemological Development”

Luke Miratrix, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, “Methodology for Studying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Education”

Nicole Mirra, an assistant professor of urban teacher education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, “Digital Democratic Dialogue: Re-Imagining Youth Civic Engagement through Participatory Politics”

Janet Njelesani, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, “Generating and Preventing Violence: Schools’ Responses to School Violence Against Students with Disabilities in Zambia”

Caitlin Patler, an assistant professor of sociology at University of California at Davis, “From Undocumented to Lawfully Present: Do Changes to Legal Status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program Impact Educational Inequality among Immigrant Youth?”

Emily Penner, an assistant professor of education at the University of California at Irvine, “Before & After School: Using Administrative Records to Support Teacher Recruitment and Retention”

Gabriela T. Richard, an assistant professor of learning, design, and technology at Pennsylvania State University, “Cultivating Inclusive Ecologies of Learning through Making and Gaming: Interrogating Culturally-Sustaining Pedagogical Approaches and Technology-specific Material Affordances for Learning and Diverse Engagement”

Timothy San Pedro, an assistant professor of multicultural and equity studies in education at Ohio State University, “Lessons of Indigeneity: Intergenerational Learning between Native American Parents and Their Children”

Lauren Schudde, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, “Laying Bare the Hidden Curriculum: The Effect of Institutional Practices and Policies on Vertical Transfer from Community Colleges”

Campbell F. Scribner, an assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland at College Park, “School Wreckers: A History of Destruction in American Education”

Rowan Steineker, an assistant professor of history at the University of Central Oklahoma, “The Struggle for Schools: Education and Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory”

Walter C. Stern, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Education for Imprisonment: School Desegregation and the Roots of Mass Incarceration in the World’s Prison Capital”

Rebecca Tarlau, an assistant professor of education and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, “Teacher Activism Across the Americas: Union Politics and Educational Change in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States”

Katie Headrick Taylor, an assistant professor of learning sciences and human development at the University of Washington’s College of Education, “Learning On-the-Move for More Equitable Communities: A Comparative Investigation of Youth Civic Participation in Nonmetropolitan and Urban Areas”

Sepehr Vakil, an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and the associate director of equity and inclusion in the Center for STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin, “‘I don’t know how I can do engineering and feel like I’m impacting my community': A Comparative Case Study of the Cultural Production of Political Identity for Undergraduate Students of Color in Engineering and Computer Science.

Di Xu, an assistant professor of educational policy and social context at the University of California at Irvine, “How Two-and Four-Year College Instructors with Different Contract Types Affect Students’ Academic and Labor Market Outcomes”

ORGANIZATIONS

Appointments

Natalie Grandison, director of external relations in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering, has been named director of engineering initiatives at the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation.

Daniel Greenstein, director of Postsecondary Success strategy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will become chancellor of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education in September.

Altha Stewart, an associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been named president of the American Psychiatric Association. She is the first African-American to lead the organization.

AWARDS

The Popular Culture Association presents awards for scholarship in the field of popular culture studies. Winners of recent awards are listed below.

Michael A. Amundson, a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, received the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture and American Culture for Talking Machine West: A History and Catalog of Tin Pan Alley’s Western Recording, 1902-1918 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).

Frank Christianson, an associate professor of English and associate dean of the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, received the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture for The Popular Frontier: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).

Jacqueline Emery, an assistant professor of English at State University of New York College at Old Westbury, received the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture for Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press (University of Nebraska Press, 2017).

Adam Gussow, an associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, received the John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer in Popular Culture and American Culture for Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Howard Wight Marshall, professor emeritus and former chairman of art history and archaeology and former director of the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Missouri at Columbia, received the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular Culture and American Culture for Fiddler’s Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in 20th-Century Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 2017).

Linda Mizejewski, a professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State University, and Victoria Sturtevant, an associate professor of film and media studies and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, received the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture for Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2017).

Katherine J. Parkin, a professor of history at Monmouth University, received the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies for Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

Eric A. Stanley, an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California at Riverside, received the John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies for Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (The MIT Press, 2017).

DEATHS

Edward Kaelber, founding president of the College of the Atlantic, died on May 17 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 94. Kaelber lead the college from 1970 until 1982, and went on to found the Maine Community Foundation after his retirement as president.

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