Transitions: Georgia Institute of Technology Selects New Chief, CUNY York College President to Step Down

Chief executives

Appointments

Ángel Cabrera, president of George Mason University, is the sole finalist for president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will succeed G. P. (Bud) Peterson, who plans to retire.

Barbara McDonald, president of North Hennepin Community College, will become president of the College of St. Scholastica on August 5. She will succeed Colette Geary, who plans to step down.

Thomas W. Meyer, vice president for academic services and student development at Lehigh Carbon Community College, has been named president of the Blue River and Business & Technology campuses of Metropolitan Community College, in Missouri.

Alexis Montevirgen, vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management at Indiana University Northwest, will become president of Los Angeles Pierce College on July 1.

Nicholas Perrin, a professor of biblical studies and former dean of the Graduate School at Wheaton College, in Illinois, has been named president of Trinity International University. He succeeds David S. Dockery, who has stepped down.

Heidi Popham, executive vice president at Georgia Northwestern Technical College, has been named president of the college. She succeeds Pete McDonald, who retired.

Dwaun J. Warmack, president of Harris-Stowe State University, will become president of Claflin University on August 1. He will succeed Henry N. Tisdale, who plans to retire.

Resignations

Marcia V. Keizs, president of the City University of New York, York College since 2005, plans to step down on August 31.

Retirements

Barbara Finkelstein, president of York County Community College since 2014, will retire on June 30.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Fred Baldini, dean of the College of Health and Human Services at California State University at Sacramento, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Samuel Merritt University on July 8.

Caron Daugherty, vice president for instruction and chief academic officer at Jefferson College, has been named vice chancellor of instruction and chief academic officer at Metropolitan Community College, in Missouri.

Peter M. Frank, dean of the Byrum School of Business at Wingate University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Grove City College.

The Rev. Vanessa Lovelace, an associate professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Interdenominational Theological Center, in Atlanta, will become vice president for academic affairs and dean of the seminary at Lancaster Theological Seminary on July 1.

Patty Pfeiffer, interim vice president for academic and student services at Wayne Community College, has been named to the post permanently.

David R. Shaw, vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University, will become provost and executive vice president on July 1.

Scott Tollison, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi University for Women, has been named to the post permanently.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Channell Barbour, associate dean of student life at Berea College, will become vice president for student life on June 30.

Rolanda C. Burney, chief of staff to the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named interim vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life.

Scott Campbell, chief operating officer with the Ohio Water Development Authority and a member of the Board of Trustees at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, will become vice president for finance and chief financial officer at the university on July 8.

Erin Craig, associate provost for enrollment and marketing at the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, will become vice president for enrollment management at Aquinas College, in Michigan, on July 15.

Elizabeth Dionne, director of finance and assistant treasurer at College of the Holy Cross, has been named vice president for finance at New England Conservatory.

Al Frisone, former vice president of university advancement at California State University at Sacramento, will become vice president for university advancement at Samuel Merritt University on July 8.

Carol E. Henderson, vice provost for diversity at the University of Delaware, will become vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and adviser to the president at Emory University on August 1.

Lori Klein, Title IX coordinator at the University of Alaska-Southeast, has been named vice chancellor of enrollment management and student affairs.

Hieu Nguyen, executive vice president of the UCR Foundation and associate vice chancellor for development at the University of California at Riverside, will become vice president for advancement at Harvey Mudd College on July 22.

Michael Sarra, associate vice president at Emerson College, has been named vice president for communications at New England Conservatory.

Matthew J. Smith, assistant vice president for budget, planning, and analysis at Brown University, will become vice president for budget planning and management at Arizona State University in July.

Becky Spurlock, associate vice president and senior associate dean of student life at Sewanee: The University of the South, has been named vice president for student development and leadership at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Daniel P. Summers II, vice president for enrollment management at Southern Vermont College, will become vice president for enrollment management at Hiram College on June 24.

Jeff Todd, associate vice president for alumni and executive director of the alumni association at the University of British Columbia, will become president and chief executive of the UNM Foundation at the University of New Mexico on September 1.

Jason Wu Trujillo, chief development officer and director of the Honor the Future campaign at the University of Virginia’s Law School Foundation, has been named vice president for university advancement at the University of Dallas.

Assata Zerai, associate provost for faculty excellence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named vice president for equity and inclusion at the University of New Mexico.

Resignations

Lee Goldman, executive vice president and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine and chief executive of the Irving Medical Center at Columbia University, plans to step down on June 30, 2020. He will remain as a member of the faculty.

Deans

Appointments

Vanessa Beasley, associate provost and dean of residential faculty at Vanderbilt University, has been named vice provost for academic affairs and dean of residential faculty.

Katheleen Guzman, a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma, has been named interim dean of the College of Law.

Kimberly Lawless, associate dean for research in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will become dean of the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University on September 1.

Adrea Lawrence, interim dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the University of Montana at Missoula, will move into the permanent position on July 1.

Greg Morrisett, dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, will become dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech on August 1.

Bonnie Rush, interim dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Matthew Saderholm, chair of natural science, mathematics, and nursing at Berea College, has been named dean of faculty.

Melissa Sturge-Apple, dean of graduate education and postdoctoral affairs in arts, sciences, and engineering and a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, will become vice provost and university dean of graduate education on July 1.

Department chairs

Appointments

Jeffrey Taylor, associate professor and director of curriculum and outcomes in the department of physical therapy at the Congdon School of Health Sciences at High Point University, will become chair of the department of physical therapy and director of the new Human Performance Research and Clinical Care Laboratory at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in August.

Jennifer Wayne, associate chair of biomedical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, will become head of the department of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech on August 10.

Other administrators

Appointments

Chad Ahren, a strategy officer for the Lumina Foundation, will become executive director of strategic enrollment initiatives at Hiram College on July 15.

Brian Baptiste, deputy director of athletics for capital projects and operations at Northwestern University, will become director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at La Salle University on August 1.

David Deming, a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and a professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, will become faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy on July 1.

Tracey George, interim vice provost for faculty affairs at Vanderbilt University, has been named to the post permanently.

Annette (Nina) C. Gray, senior executive director of the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Langone Health, will become associate dean for the sciences and executive director of the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center on June 24.

Evviva Weinraub, associate university librarian for collections and technologies at Northwestern University, will become vice provost for university libraries at the University at Buffalo on August 1.

Popular Culture Awards

The Popular Culture Association sponsors awards for books, documentary films, and electronic reference sites each year. Here are the 2019 recipients and their academic affiliations.

Jenn Brandt, an associate professor of women’s studies at California State University at Dominguez Hills, received the John G. Cawelti best textbook/primer for An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) with her co-editor, Callie Clare, an assistant professor of communications at Siena Heights University.

Susan Doyle, head of the department of illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, received a Ray & Pat Browne Award for best edited collection in popular culture and American culture for The History of Illustration (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) with her co-editors: Jaleen Grove, an assistant professor of illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and Whitney Sherman, director of the MFA in illustration practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Douglas A. Guerra, an assistant professor of American literature, media studies, and popular culture at the State University of New York at Oswego, received the Ray & Pat Browne Award for best reference/primary work for Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Ken Koltun-Fromm, a professor of social responsibility and religion at Haverford College, received a Ray & Pat Browne Award for best edited collection in popular culture and American culture for Comics and Sacred Texts (University of Mississippi Press, 2018) with his co-editor, Assaf Gamzou, a graduate student in history at the University of Haifa and the curator of the Israeli Cartoon Museum.

Tison Pugh, a professor of English literature at the University of Central Florida, received the John Leo and Dana Heller Award for best work in LGBTQ studies for The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

Lara Saguisag, an assistant professor of English literature at the City University of New York College of Staten Island, received the Ray and Pat Browne Award for the best single work by one or more authors in popular culture and American culture for Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

Deaths

Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs at Northwestern University, died of cancer on June 3. She was 63. Telles-Irvin had previously served as vice president for student affairs at the University of Florida for seven years and in various roles at Florida International University.

Walter Wadlington, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law, died on May 27. He was 88.

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