Transitions: Hampton U. Names New President; Columbia U. President to Step Down Next Year

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Adrien Bennings, president of Kellogg Community College, in Michigan, has been named president of Portland Community College, in Oregon.

Parwinder Grewal, special assistant to the president of the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, has been named the first president of Vermont State University. Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College will combine under the new university name.

John Chenoweth, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, has been named interim chancellor after James P. Henderson resigned.

Tammy Evetovich, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, has been named interim chancellor. She will replace Dennis J. Shields, who will leave to become president of the Southern University system and chancellor of Southern University and A&M College.

Michael Laliberte, president of the State University of New York at Delhi, has been named president of the University of Maine at Augusta.

Michelle Patrick, dean of the School of Business at Robert Morris University, has been named interim president. She replaced interim president Mary Ann Rafoth, who is retiring.

Todd Saliman, interim president of the University of Colorado system, has been named the sole finalist to be president.

Daniel Shipp, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and executive vice president and provost at the University of Nebraska system, has been named president of Pittsburg State University, in Kansas.

Darrell K. Williams, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and vice president and managing director of the U.K. Ministry of Defence Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation program at Leidos, has been named president of Hampton University. He will succeed William R. Harvey.

Resignations
Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University since 2002, plans to step down at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.

Patrick Gallagher, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh since 2014, plans to step down in the summer of 2023.

Scott Gordon, president of Stephen F. Austin State University, will step down after he and the Board of Regents “mutually agreed” that it was time for the “employment relationship to end.”

Andrew Hamilton, president of New York University since 2016, plans to step down in 2023 and return to the faculty as a professor in the chemistry department.

Clayton S. Rose, president of Bowdoin College, announced his plans to step down on June 30, 2023.

T. Ramon Stuart, president of Clayton State University, resigned after less than a year in the job, citing health problems. Kerry Heyward, attorney for Georgia State University, will serve as interim president.

Retirements
Wayne A.I. Frederick, president of Howard University since 2014, announced his plan to retire by June 2024.

William R. Harvey, president of Hampton University since 1978, plans to retire in June.

Rock Jones, president of Ohio Wesleyan University since 2008, plans to retire at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.

Carolyn Long, campus president of West Virginia University Institute of Technology since 2011, plans to retire in December.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Donna K. Arnett, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, has been named executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina.

Robert Bohrer II, senior associate provost for academic success at Gettysburg College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Hiram College.

Michele Gillespie, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University, has been named provost at the university.

Sacha E. Kopp, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named provost at Gonzaga University.

Avinandan (Avi) Mukherjee, interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Marshall University since July 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Amy Sueyoshi, dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, has been named provost at the university.

Kathy J. Wolfe, dean of engaged education at Hamilton College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Roanoke College.

Resignations
Jason Osborne, provost at Miami University, will resign.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Ben Durant, senior policy adviser and vice president for administration and finance at Guilford College, has been named interim chief financial officer at New Jersey City University.

Karleen Howard, executive director of enrollment management and director of financial aid and veterans affairs at Spring Hill College, has been named vice president for enrollment management at Somerset Community College.

John T. McGreevy, a professor of history and former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has been named provost.

Resignations
Eric Norman, vice president for student affairs at Austin Peay State University, has Resigned after being placed on administrative leave following an employee’s complaint of sexual harassment.

DEANS
Appointments
Valerie Banschbach, associate provost and dean of Sciences and Education at Gustavus Adolphus College, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Portland.

Abra K. Bush, senior associate dean of institute studies at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute, has been named dean of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Laurie Carter, chair of the department of English and foreign languages at Hampton University, has been named dean of the School of the Arts and School of Humanities at Susquehanna University.

Laura Delbrugge, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for the integrating Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campuses of Clarion, California, and Edinboro universities, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University.

Del Doughty, dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Texas A&M University, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana.

Otgontsetseg Erhemjamts, associate dean of business, associate vice president and associate provost for strategic initiatives, and a professor of finance at Bentley University, has been named dean of the School of Management at the University of San Francisco.

Kenneth Fridley, senior associate dean of administration at the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama, has been named dean of the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University.

Eileen Fry-Bowers, associate provost for research administration at the University of San Diego, has been named dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco.

Clifford L. Henderson, a professor and chair of the department of chemical, biological, and materials engineering at the University of South Florida, has been named dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Marie T. Nolan, professor and executive vice dean in the School of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University, has been named dean of the Conway School of Nursing at the Catholic University of America.

Mohamed Noor, dean of natural sciences and a professor of biology at Duke University, will become interim dean of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences when Valerie Ashby departs to become president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

Austen Parrish, dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, has been named dean of the School of Law at the University of California at Irvine.

Shankar Prasad, vice president for academic innovation and deputy provost for strategic initiatives at Brown University, has been named dean of the School of Professional Studies.

David Steeb, an associate professor and director of global engagement in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named founding dean of the College of Global Population Health at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis.

Alexandra Minna Stern, associate dean of humanities in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, has been named dean of humanities in the University of California at Los Angeles College of Letters and Science.

Katherine Straub, interim dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences at Susquehanna University since August 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Tyrone Tanner, executive director of the Northwest Houston Center and interim dean of graduate studies since June 2021 at Prairie View A&M University, has been named dean of graduate studies.

Sandra Vannoy, interim dean of the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University since 2021, has been named to the post permanently.

Rachel Williams, an associate professor and department chair of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and studio art at the University of Iowa, has been named dean of the division of liberal arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Resignations
Lynda Ransdell, dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Northern Illinois University, plans to step down in June.

David Weil, dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, plans to step down in June.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Christopher C. Beyrer, a professor of public health and human rights at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named director of Duke University’s Global Health Institute.

Jonathan Meer, senior philanthropic adviser for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University, has been named associate vice president for development and alumni engagement at the College of New Jersey.

John Morris, a professor in the department of chemistry at Virginia Tech, has been named associate dean of research in the College of Science.

Nadeem Siddiqui, a former executive director of the Faculty Student Association at Stony Brook University, has been named assistant vice president for campus dining at Princeton University.

ORGANIZATIONS
Appointments
Katherine E. Fleming, provost at New York University, has been named president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

DEATHS
Jack Hopper, retired dean of the College of Engineering and former professor at Lamar University, died on April 11. He was 84.

Sister Janice Ryan, who served from 1979 to 1996 as president of Vermont’s Trinity College, which closed in 2000, died on March 30. She was 85.

Jon Wefald, who served as president of Kansas State University from 1986 to 2009, died on April 16. He was 84.

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