Transitions: Husson U. Names New President; Iowa State U. Provost to Step Down After 12 Years

CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Appointments
Lynne Coy-Ogan, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Husson University, in Maine, has been named the university’s first female president.

Nora Demleitner, president of the Annapolis campus of St. John’s College, has been named collegewide president.

Suri Duitch, former dean and vice president for academic innovation at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, has been named interim president of Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York.

Keith Elder, executive vice president at Mississippi College, has been named president of Saint Xavier University, in Illinois.

Margaret Ford Fisher, interim chancellor of Houston Community College since September, has been named to the post permanently.

Megan Nagel, interim chancellor and chief academic officer since June 2022 at Pennsylvania State University-Greater Allegheny, has been named to the post permanently.

D.J. Washington, director of employer and regional engagement at the University of Notre Dame and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees at Union College, in Kentucky, has been named interim president of Union College.

Resignations
Robert O. Davies, president of Central Michigan University, plans to step down at the end of the year.

Chris Gilmer, president of Potomac State College of West Virginia University, plans to step down.

Retirements
Kristin Clark, chancellor of the West Hills Community College District, plans to retire in July.

Bob Mong, president of the University of North Texas at Dallas, will retire in July.

Lawrence L. Rouse, president since 2018 of Pitt Community College, in North Carolina, will retire this summer.

Birgitte Ryslinge, president of Oregon Coast Community College, plans to retire after 10 years in the role.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS
Appointments
Rebecca W. Doerge, former dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pennsylvania, has been named provost at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in New York.

John Z. Kiss, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Florida Institute of Technology.

Tom Nevill, vice president for academics at Butler Community College, in Kansas, has been named vice president for academic affairs at GateWay Community College, in Arizona.

Resignations
John Meier, provost of Lafayette College, in Pennsylvania, plans to step down at the end of the academic year. He will return to the faculty as a professor of mathematics, and has been named executive director of the American Mathematical Society.

Jonathan Wickert, provost of Iowa State University for 12 years, plans to resign at the end of June.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
Frank N. Barra, senior associate vice president for finance and Division I athletics administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in New Jersey, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Meredith N. Brunen, vice president for advancement at the University of West Georgia and chief executive of UWG Foundations, has been named vice president for advancement at Hendrix College, in Arkansas.

Michele Burris, interim vice president for student affairs since June 2023 at Fordham University, in New York, has been named to the post permanently.

Kamille Dean, senior director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Fordham School of Law and interim associate vice president for academic affairs at Fordham University, in New York, has been named interim chief diversity officer.

Sadie Greiner, chief of staff for facilities at Florida State University, has been named chief construction officer.

Cas Holloway, a consultant and former deputy mayor for operations for New York City, has been named chief operating officer at Columbia University.

Andrew Kane, associate vice president for university services at Princeton University, has been named vice president for finance and operations at Sarah Lawrence College, in New York.

Leon Lewis Jr., chief information officer at Illinois Wesleyan University, has been named chief information officer at Shaw University, in North Carolina.

Michael Marsh, chief operating officer at the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, in New York, has been named chief of staff in the university president’s office.

Julia Jeffrey Rathgeber, vice president for governmental and regulatory relations and business development at Berkshire Hathaway Energy, has been named vice chancellor for governmental relations at the University of Texas system.

Lydia Sermons, vice president for strategic communications and marketing at Spelman College, in Georgia, has been named vice president and chief communications officer at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

Resignations
Myron Frans, senior vice president for finance and operations for the University of Minnesota system, will step down in March.

Zack Moore, vice president for government and community relations at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, will step down in February.

Retirements
John M. Baworowsky, vice president for enrollment management at Marquette University, in Wisconsin, will retire.

Soncia Reagins-Lilly, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the University of Texas at Austin, will retire.

DEANS
Appointments
Nodir Adilov, a professor of economics at Purdue University at Fort Wayne and interim dean since July of its Doermer School of Business, has been named dean on a permanent basis.

Cynthia Aguilar, a former assistant vice president at Tarleton State University, in Texas, has been named associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Jeffrey Bardzell, associate dean of faculty and graduate affairs in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, has been named dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bruce W. Berdanier, former dean of the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University, has been named dean of the College of Engineering and Sciences at Purdue University-Northwest.

Mitch Croatt, a professor and head of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been named interim dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, run with North Carolina A&T State University. He will succeed Sherine Obare, who has been named the university’s vice chancellor for research and engagement.

Sherif Elfayoumy, director of the School of Computing at the University of North Florida, has been named dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science at Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

Michael D. Gordin, a professor of modern and contemporary history at Princeton University, has been named dean of the college.

Atul Kelkar, a professor and chair of the department of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, in South Carolina, has been named dean of the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York system.

Daniel B. Kelly, a professor of law and director of the Law and Economics Program and the founding director of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame, has been named dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law, in Minnesota.

Ka Yee C. Lee, executive vice president for strategic initiatives at the University of Chicago, has been named interim dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences.

Tom Smith, a professor of public policy and education in the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, in Tennessee, has been named dean of the School of Education at the University of California at Davis.

Melissa (Missy) Terlecki, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Cabrini University, in Pennsylvania, has been named dean of the School of Professional and Applied Psychology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Philip Venticinque, associate provost at the University of Chicago, has been named dean of students.

Margie Yates, interim dean of the College of Education and Health Professions since July 2022 at Columbus State University, in Georgia, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations
Robert N. Golden, dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health and vice chancellor for medical affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, plans to step down.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS
Appointments
John Dalton, director of academic success at Stanford University’s law school, has been named the school’s associate dean of student affairs.

Xiomara Giordano, director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and deputy college diversity officer at Bennington College, in Vermont, has been named assistant vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the State University of New York’s Empire State College.

Erik Hurst, a professor of economics and deputy director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, has been named director of the institute.

Marlon Lynch, vice president for public safety at Michigan State University, has been named associate vice chancellor for public safety at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Amanda Mayfield, associate vice president for finance at Connecticut College, has been named associate vice president for finance at Mount Holyoke College, in Massachusetts.

Diane Metcalf, deputy director of athletics at Merrimack College, in Massachusetts, has been named director of development for athletics at Harvard University.

Sarah Powell, director of government and external relations at the University of West Georgia, has been named chief of staff and assistant vice president for administration.

James Robson, a professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University, has been named director of the university’s Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Gaurav Sukhatme, executive vice dean in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, has been named director of the School of Advanced Computing.

Reisha Williams, director of bias response and senior deputy Title IX coordinator at the Juilliard School, in New York, has been named Title IX program director at Harvard University.

Resignations
Charles Bolton, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and interim head of the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, resigned in protest of the process used to identify programs to be cut on campus.

FACULTY
Appointments
David Beasley, a former governor of South Carolina, will join the faculty of the University of South Carolina at Columbia’s Joseph F. Rice School of Law.

DEATHS
Charles Fried, who had taught at Harvard Law School since 1961, died on January 23. He was 88. Fried also served as U.S. solicitor general from 1985 to 1989 and associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1999.

David P. Gardner, president of the University of California system from 1983 to 1992, died on January 2. He was 90.

Lawrence L. Langer, who taught at Simmons University, in Massachusetts, died on January 29. He was 94. Langer’s work focused on literature and the Holocaust.

David L. Mills, a former professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, died on January 17. He was 85. Mills was known as the internet’s “Father Time” for his development of the network’s time protocol.

Ernest Theodore Pascarella, a professor emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Iowa, died on January 23. He was 79.

Jerrold Ross, dean emeritus of the School of Education at St. John’s University, in New York, died on February 1. He was 88.

William R. Stott Jr., who from 1985 to 1995 served as president of Ripon College, in Wisconsin, died on February 1. He was 88.

Cleon Thompson, a former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina A&T State University, died on January 27. He was 92.

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