Chief executives
Appointments
Nathan Brostrom, executive vice president and chief financial officer at the University of California system, has been named interim chancellor of the University of California at Merced. He will replace Dorothy Leland, who plans to step down on August 15.
Mickey L. Burnim, former president of Bowie State University and former interim president of the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, will become interim president of Coppin State University on July 1. He will replace President Maria Thompson, who plans to step down.
Mohammad Dehghani, vice provost for research, innovation and entrepreneurship at Stevens Institute of Technology, will become chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology on August 1.
Joseph Harroz Jr., dean of the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, is interim president of the university. He replaced James L. Gallogly, who announced his retirement on May 12.
Guiyou Huang, chancellor of Louisiana State University at Alexandria since 2017, will become president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on July 1. He will replace Michael Hannan, who has served as interim president since H. Fred Walker stepped down.
Tom Jackson Jr., president of Black Hills State University, will become president of Humboldt State University in July. He will be the first African-American to serve in that role. He will succeed Lisa Rossbacher, who plans to retire at the end of June.
Lynn Mahoney, provost and vice president for academic affairs for California State University at Los Angeles, will become president of San Francisco State University on July 15. She will be the first woman to serve as San Francisco State’s permanent chief. She will succeed Leslie E. Wong, who plans to retire.
James M. Shaeffer, founding dean of the College of Continuing Education and Professional Development at Old Dominion University, will become president of Eastern Shore Community College in July. He will replace Billy Greer, who has served as interim president since Linda Thomas-Glover retired in January 2018.
Nancee Sorenson, president of the Brandon campus of Hillsborough Community College, has been named chancellor of Louisiana State University at Eunice.
Amy Storey, interim president of Keuka College since July 2018, was appointed to the role permanently. She assumed the interim role in July 2018 after the retirement of Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera, who was named president emeritus.
Neil Theobald, vice president for finance and administration at the University of Wyoming, will become the university’s acting president on July 1. The current president, Laurie Nichols, plans to step down when her contract expires in June. Theobald was president of Temple University from 2012 to 2016.
David Woolstenhulme, vice president for statewide campuses at Utah State University, will become interim commissioner of higher education for Utah on July 1. He will replace David L. Buhler, commissioner since 2012, who plans to move on to teach political science at the University of Utah.
Resignations
Robert L. Caret, chancellor of the University System of Maryland since 2014, plans to step down in 2020.
Michael Hemesath, president of Saint John’s University, in Minnesota, since 2012, will step down in August.
Rahmat Shoureshi, president of Portland State University since August 2017, has stepped down at the request of the Board of Trustees.
Chief academic officers
Appointments
Robert Eves, dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Southern Utah University, has been named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, will become senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Arizona on July 29.
Teresa A. Garrett, associate dean of the faculty and a professor of chemistry at Vassar College, will become vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Sweet Briar College on August 1.
Philip Jefferson, a professor of economics at Swarthmore College, will become vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College on August 1.
Edward (Ted) Reilly, associate vice president for academic affairs at Winona State University, has been named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Linda Strong-Leek, vice president for diversity and inclusion and associate vice president for academic affairs at Berea College, will become provost on July 1.
Barbara Sunderman, interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Hastings College, has been named to the post permanently.
Other top administrators
Appointments
Keith A. Alford, interim chief diversity officer at Syracuse University, was named as the university’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer.
Michelle Cromwell, associate vice president for inclusive excellence and chief diversity officer at Regis College, has been named vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh.
Charles E. Davis III, director of strategic development at the International School of Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, will become vice president for university advancement at Mary Baldwin University in July.
Katherine Green, president and chief executive of Habitat for Humanity of Lee & Hendry Counties, in Florida, will become vice president for advancement at Florida Gulf Coast University and executive director of the FGCU Foundation on June 24.
Lorita B. Williams, vice president for advancement and community engagement at Roxbury Community College, will become vice president for development and alumni affairs at Becker College on July 29.
Deans
Appointments
Mary Anne Bobinski, a professor at and former dean of the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, will become dean of Emory University School of Law. She will be the law school’s first female dean.
James Bullock, a professor and chair of physics and astronomy at the University of California at Irvine, will become dean of the School of Physical Sciences on July 1.
Catherine Carey, interim dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University, will become dean of the Romain College of Business at the University of Southern Indiana on July 1.
Nadeem Karimbux, associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of periodontology at the School of Dental Medicine at Tufts University, has been named dean of the school.
David Allen Wehr, a professor of piano in the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University, will become interim dean of the school on July 1.
Other administrators
Appointments
Rick Baker, sports information director and assistant athletic director and interim director of athletics at Mars Hill University, will become director of athletics on June 1.
Reese Ramos, former corporate ombudsman at Sandia National Laboratories, in California, will become director of the newly created University Ombuds Office at Virginia Tech on July 1. The office will help people who encounter difficulties in their interactions with the university and will work to resolve conflicts.
Resignations
Tom Bowen, director of athletics at the University of Memphis, plans to step down.
Organizations
Appointments
Russ Poulin, senior director of policy, analysis, and strategic alliances at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s Cooperative for Educational Technologies, will become Wiche’s vice president for technology-enhanced education and executive director of the Wiche Cooperative for Educational Technologies on June 1.
Retirements
Joyce E. Smith, chief executive of the National Association for College Admission Counseling since 1996, plans to retire in summer of 2020.
Deaths
Robert Wayne Bowles the first director of the Office of Alumni Affairs at Alcorn State University, died at his home in Mississippi on May 17. He held the position as director from 1970 to 1976. He also worked as university registrar and as an assistant professor and chair of the department of health and physical education.
Talbot (Sandy) D’Alemberte, president emeritus of Florida State University, died on May 20. He was 85. A longtime law professor, he was dean of Florida State’s College of Law from 1984 to 1989. He led the university from 1994 to 2003. He also served in the Florida House of Representatives, from 1966 to 1972.
Marshall Gordon, president of Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) from 1983 to 1992, died on May 17. He was 81. Gordon spent 18 years as an organic chemist and administrator at Kentucky’s Murray State University before taking the helm at Southwest Missouri State. During his tenure, the university’s enrollment reached 20,000 for the first time.
John Lukacs, a historian and a former professor at Chestnut Hill College, died on May 6. He was 95. Lukacs worked at Chestnut Hill from 1947 until his retirement in 1994. He also served as a visiting professor at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, La Salle, and Princeton Universities. His work often focused on World War II and he wrote several books about the era and its key indivduals, including A Short History of the Twentieth Century (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013), Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian (Yale University Press, 2002), and The Last European War (Anchor Press, 1976).
Michael Rossmann, a professor of biological sciences at Purdue University at West Lafayette who was known for his breakthroughs in the understanding of infectious diseases, died on May 14. He was 88. Rossman joined the Purdue faculty in 1964 and worked there for more than 50 years. In 1985, in a discovery noted worldwide, he mapped the structure of the common cold virus at an atomic level using X-ray crystallography. In 2002, he and another Purdue professor, Richard Kuhn, and their research group determined the structure of the dengue virus. The two professors and their research team discovered the structure of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2016. Rossman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London. In 1994, he received the Gregori Aminoff Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Mark Saunders, director of the University of Virginia Press, died of a heart attack at his home on May 19. He was 52. Beginning in 1991, Mark served as East Coast sales representative and then national sales manager at Columbia University Press. In 1995, he joined the marketing department of the University of Virginia Press, where he eventually became director of marketing and sales and, in 2013, press director. He was instrumental in establishing the press’s Rotunda electronic imprint. His spy novel, Ministers of Fire, was published in 2012 by Swallow Press.
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Correction (5/24/2019, 12:08 p.m.): The original version of this article misspelled the first name of Nadeem Karimbux, the new dean of the School of Dental Medicine at Tufts University. His first name is Nadeem, not Nadee. The article has been corrected.
Correction (5/29/2019, 1:59 p.m.): The original version of this article gave an incorrect title for Guiyou Huang’s new post. He will be the new president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, not its chancellor. The item has been corrected.
