Reynaldo Anaya Valencia, associate dean of finance and administration and a professor of law at the University of North Texas at Dallas, has been named dean of the Law School at Capital University.
Paul Wahlbeck, interim dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University since 2018, has been named to the post permanently.
Michelle D. Young, a professor of educational leadership and policy and chair of the department of education leadership, foundations, and policy at the University of Virginia, has been named dean of the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University.
Amy Zeng, dean of the Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford, has been named dean of the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.
Resignations
Marta Kuzma, dean of Yale University’s School of Art, plans to step down in June 2021 and return to the faculty as a professor of art.
Department chairs
Appointments
Rachel J.C. (Chen) Fu, a professor in the department of retail, hospitality, and tourism management in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has been named chair of the department of tourism, hospitality, and event management in the College of Health & Human Performance at the University of Florida.
Sheneka Williams, an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Georgia, has been named chairperson of the department of educational administration at Michigan State University.
Other administrators
Appointments
Mamta Motwani Accapadi, vice president for student affairs at Rollins College, will become vice provost for university life at the University of Pennsylvania on August 17.
Piri Ackerman-Barger, an associate clinical professor in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, director of Faculty Development for Education, and co-director of the Interprofessional Teaching Scholars Program at the University of California at Davis, has been named associate dean of health equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Ann Quiroz Gates, a professor and chair of the department of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso, will become vice provost for faculty affairs on August 1.
Penelope Howard, executive vice president for administration and finance at Erie Community College, in New York, has been named associate chief financial officer and controller at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Christopher Hunter, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has been named an associate dean of the university’s Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies.
Quincy Jenkins, director of Latinx Outreach at Dalton State College, has been named director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Chattanooga State Community College.
Suzanne Lang, associate dean of faculty and administrative affairs and director of faculty development in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University, has been named interim associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources.
Kara Lawson, an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics and former player with the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team, has been named head women’s basketball coach at Duke University.
Michael S. Siegel, director of military and veteran student services at Bridgewater State University, has been named the first director of veterans' and military affairs at Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Camillo Jose Taylor, a professor in the department of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Morris Thomas, an associate professor and inaugural director of the Center for the Advancement of Learning at the University of the District of Columbia, has been named director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Howard University.
Melanie Stallings Williams, a professor of business law in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State University at Northridge, has been named executive director of the California State University Real Estate and Land Use Institute.
Mark Fitzgerald Wilson, executive director of cultural programs and partnership at the Grunin Center for the Arts, in Toms River, N.J., has been named executive director of the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University.
Faculty
Appointments
Bryan Washington, author of Lot, has been named a writer-in-residence and scholar-in-residence for racial justice at Rice University.
Retirements
Robert A. Cathey, a professor of theology at McCormick Theological Seminary since 2008, retired in June.
Sheryl L. Santos-Hatchett, founding dean of the School of Education at the University of North Texas at Dallas, retired in June as a professor emerita.
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.
Wagner College
Jonathan Blaize, biology
Theresa McCarthy, performing arts
Arunkumar Sharma, chemistry
Aleksandra Zagorin, nursing
Wilkes University
Lori Cooper, in the doctoral program in the School of Education
Thomas Frank, pharmacy practice in the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy
Jonathan Kuiken, history
Jon Liebetrau, performing arts
Blake Mackesy, in the doctoral program in the School of Education
Patricia Sweeney, in the Passan School of Nursing
Joyce Victor, in the Passan School of Nursing
Shaokang (Ken) Wang, finance in the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership
Changes in rank
Faculty members' new ranks are listed below.
Colorado College
Kristine Lang, to professor of physics
Wagner College
Celeste Gagnon, to professor of anthropology
Lauri Young, to professor of performing arts
Wilkes University
Donald Mencer, to professor of chemistry
Organizations
Appointments
Beth English, a lecturer in the writing program and director of the Project on Gender in the Global Community in the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, will become executive director of the Organization of American Historians on September 1.
Irene Mulvey, a professor of mathematics at Fairfield University, has been elected president of the American Association of University Professors.
Deaths
Lucius J. Barker, a professor emeritus of political science at Stanford University, died on June 21. He was 92. Barker began his career at the University of Illinois and later taught at Southern University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Washington University in St. Louis.
David Isaac Grossvogel, professor of comparative literature and Romance studies at Cornell University, died on June 14. He was 94. Grossvogel also taught at Columbia and Harvard Universities. In addition to writing on modern literature, pop culture, and film criticism, he was a founder of the literary journal Diacritics.
Michael Hawley, a former professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science and director of special projects at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on June 24. He was 58.
Pat Leonard, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, died on June 2. She was 65. Leonard arrived at the university in 1983 and was named vice chancellor in 1996.
Kirk R. Smith, founder and a former director of the program in global health and environment and a former associate director of international programs at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of California at Berkeley, died on June 15. He was 73. Smith contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and shared in the Nobel Peace Prize that the IPCC won in 2007.
Frederick Charles Tillis, a professor, musician, composer, performer, poet, arts advocate, and director emeritus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Fine Arts Center, died on May 3. He was 90. Tillis served on the music department's faculty and as associate provost, associate chancellor for equal opportunity and diversity, and for nearly 20 years as director of the Fine Arts Center. He co-founded the center’s Jazz in July program.
Sister Thomas Welder, a former president of the University of Mary, died on June 22. She was 80. During her time as president, from 1978 to 2009, the previously named Mary College became a university.
