CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Daniel J. Allen, senior vice president for university advancement at DePaul University, has been named president of La Salle University.
Darrell Cain,president of Pierce College Puyallup, has been named interim president of Everett Community College.
Abel A. Chávez, vice president for enrollment and student success at Western Colorado University, has been named president of Our Lady of the Lake University. He will succeed Diane Melby after her retirement.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Daniel J. Allen, senior vice president for university advancement at DePaul University, has been named president of La Salle University.
Darrell Cain,president of Pierce College Puyallup, has been named interim president of Everett Community College.
Abel A. Chávez, vice president for enrollment and student success at Western Colorado University, has been named president of Our Lady of the Lake University. He will succeed Diane Melby after her retirement.
Lisa R. Freudenheim, co-acting dean of New England Law at Boston, has been named dean.
Yoshiko Harden,vice president for student services at Seattle Central College, has been named interim president. She replaces Sheila Edwards Lange, who left to become chancellor of the University of Washington at Tacoma.
Robin Holmes-Sullivan,vice president for student life and dean of students at Lewis & Clark College, has been named president of the college. She will be the first woman and the first person of color to serve as president.
Mautra Jones,vice president for institutional advancement and external affairs at Langston University, in Oklahoma, has been named president of Oklahoma City Community College. She is the first woman and first woman of color to lead the college.
Radenka Maric,vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut, has been named interim president.
Mark Middendorf,executive vice president for mission expansion at the Augustine Institute, in Colorado, has been named president of Ave Maria University.
John B. Moseley,interim president of Lincoln University since May 2021, has been named to the post permanently.
Wendell Pritchett, former provost at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named interim president until M. Elizabeth Magill begins her tenure in July.
Chris Roberts,dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, has been named president of the university. He will succeed Jay Gogue, who plans to retire after serving as president from 2007 until 2017 and returning in 2019.
Richard Yao, interim president of California State University-Channel Islands since January 2021, has been named to the post permanently.
Retirements Ric N. Baser, president of Northwest Vista College, will retire on June 1.
E. Joseph Lee,president of Spring Hill College since 2020, plans to retire in December.
CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS Appointments Ken Anderson,dean of the School of Business Administration at Gonzaga University, has been named interim provost.
Elizabeth Béjar,vice president for academic and student affairs at Florida International University, has been named interim provost.
Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu, interim director at the District Church in Washington, D.C., has been named provost at Westmont College.
David Kotz,interim provost at Dartmouth College, has been named to the post permanently.
Rupendra Paliwal,a former provost and vice president for academic affairs at Sacred Heart University, in Connecticut, has been named provost and chief academic officer at Bryant University, in Rhode Island.
Sarah B. Steinberg,interim provost and senior vice president at the University of Arizona Global Campus, has been named to the post permanently.
Traki L. Taylor,chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for the State University System of Florida, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Frostburg State University.
Lena Walton,dean of the College of Education, Humanities and Behavioral Sciences at Alabama A&M University, has been named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Gary Wyatt,dean of the Honors College at Emporia State University, has been named acting provost.
Resignations Carol Parker,provost at New Mexico State University who has been on administrative leave since November, has been officially removed from her position.
OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS Appointments Gregory F. Ball,dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named vice president for research in a joint appointment at the College Park campus at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
John W. Boyer,dean of the undergraduate college at the University of Chicago, will transition into a new role as senior adviser to the president at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
Jeffer Choudhry,senior managing director and head of investments for Carnegie Mellon University, has been named chief investment officer at the University of Pittsburgh.
Keristiena Dodge,director of academic strategic planning at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named chief of staff.
Anne Gentry,associate university counsel at George Mason University, has been named interim general counsel.
Jennifer Jarvis,assistant vice president for student affairs at City University of New York Queens College, has been named vice president for student affairs and enrollment management.
Victoria Kohout,director of state and community relations at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named chief of government and community relations.
Laurie Leshin,president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been named director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
Aime Martinez,associate vice president for business and finance at Florida International University, has been named interim chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration.
Kristi Mindrup, interim administrator in charge of the Western Illinois University-Quad Cities campus since June 2020, has been named vice president for Quad Cities campus operations.
Agnes Wong Nickerson,interim vice president for business and financial affairs and chief financial officer at San Diego State University since March 2019, has been named to the post permanently.
Diane Fabiano Sanders,interim vice president for advancement and alumni engagement at Coastal Carolina University since June 2021, has been named to the post permanently.
Deborah Smith-Howell, interim chief of staff for the chancellor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been named senior adviser to the chancellor.
Marco Antonio Valenzuela, interim vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Harvey Mudd College, has been named to the post permanently.
Retirements John Brumsted,president and chief executive officer of the University of Vermont Health Network, will retire in September.
Donald E. Heller,vice president for operations and a professor of education at the University of San Francisco, will retire at the end of the month.
Tracey DeBlase Huston,vice president for outreach at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, will retire in June.
DEANS Appointments John Bakken,dean of curriculum support at Wake Technical Community College, has been named dean of the mathematics and sciences division.
Naomi E. Boyd,associate dean of innovation, outreach, and engagement in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics Department of Finance at West Virginia University, has been named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business.
Rick Brazier,senior associate dean of faculty and research in the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses at Pennsylvania State University, has been named interim dean of the university’s 14-campus University College.
Hilliary Creely,interim dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the position permanently.
Anne E. Gregory, interim dean of the College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences at Purdue University Northwest, has been named to the post permanently.
Michael A. Lindsey,a professor of Poverty Studies and executive director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University, has been named dean of the Silver School of Social Work.
Dan P. McAdams, a professor of human development and social policy and psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, has been named interim dean of the School of Education and Social Policy.
Roderic I. Pettigrew,a professor in the College of Medicine and the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named the inaugural dean of the Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine.
Brian Primack,dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, has been named dean of the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University.
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Agustín Rayo, interim dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named to the post permanently.
Jocelyn Santana,social-justice education director at Northern Illinois University, has been named dean of equity and inclusion at Minnesota State Community and Technical College.
Stacey Swearingen White,a professor in the University of Kansas School of Public Affairs and Administration, has been named dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Resignations Gregory M. Anderson,dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University, will step down in May.
Marvin Chun,dean of the college at Yale University, will step down and return to the faculty in June.
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah,dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, has stepped down and returned to the faculty.
OTHER ADMINISTRATORS Appointments Larry L. Fillian Jr.,associate dean of student and academic services in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named associate dean of enrollment management and student success in the School of Professional Studies at New York University.
Brandon Gamble,the Charles Bell Faculty Scholar at San Diego State University, has been appointed director of the Black Resource Center at the university.
Danette Gerald Howard, senior vice president and chief policy officer at Lumina Foundation and former secretary of higher education for the State of Maryland, has been named a senior adviser and consultant at Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice.
Kimberly Miloch,associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Health Sciences at Texas Woman’s University, has been named the university’s first vice provost for faculty success.
Molly Peirano, interim Title IX director at Ohio State University, has been named assistant vice president for civil rights and Title IX at the University of South Carolina.
Kimberly Rivers, interim dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, has been named interim director of the University Studies Program.
Emily Seems,chief of staff for Colorado State University’s provost and executive vice president, has been named associate vice president for community affairs and engagement in the Division of University Marketing and Communications.
John H. Shaw,a professor of environmental science and engineering and of structural and economic geology at Harvard University, has been named vice provost for research.
Robert Smith III,associate chair for administration in the department of neurology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named vice dean of the university’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Jessica White,Title IX and equal opportunity coordinator at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, has been named director of the Title IX Office at Howard University.
Resignations D.A. Graham,interim vice provost of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at the University of Kansas, has resigned after sending out a largely plagiarized email on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
DEATHS Jonathan Brown,a professor in the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, died on January 17. He was 82.
Edgar S. Cahn, co-founder of the Antioch School of Law, in Washington, D.C., a branch of Antioch University, died on January 23. He was 86.
Michael E. Economos,who was a Maryland Institute College of Art instructor for five decades , died of cancer on November 3. He was 85.
Arnie Kantrowitz, a literature professor and author who was an early champion of gay rights, died from complications of Covid-19 on January 21. He was 81.
James Maraniss,a professor of Spanish and European studies at Amherst College, died on January 9. He was 76.
Beatrice Mintz,a cancer researcher at Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia, died on January 3. She was 100.
Herb. F. Reinhard,president of Frostburg State University from 1986 to 1991, died on January 13. He was 91.
Jeremiah Stamler,who founded the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University School of Medicine, died on January 26. He was 102.
Alan A. Stone,who held dual tenured appointments in the law and medical schools at Harvard University, died on January 23. He was 92.
Clifford Trump,chancellor of the State College System of West Virginia from 1994 through 2000, died on January 6. He was 84.
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