Transitions: Michigan State U. Selects New Chief, New Provost at Northeastern Illinois U.

Chief executives

Appointments

Lonnie Burnett, professor of history and executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Mobile, has been named interim president. Fred Wilson, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees, had assumed the interim role after the last permanent president, Timothy L. Smith, resigned in February.

Fozia Ferozali, who oversaw pre-licensure and graduate-level nursing programs at Walden University, has been named president of Chamberlain University at Sacramento.

Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, who was dean of the College of Nursing at Washington State University, became president and chief executive of Helene Fuld College of Nursing this month.

Tom Jackson Jr., president of Black Hills State University, will become president of Humboldt State University in July. 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. The first woman to serve as San Francisco State’s permanent chief, she will succeed Leslie E. Wong, who plans to retire.

Gretchen Mullin-Sawicki, president of the North Campus and West Hills Center of the Community College of Allegheny County, will become president of New Hampshire Technical Institute-Concord’s Community College on July 1.

The Rev. David Pivonka, who was director of the ministry Franciscan Pathways, became president of Franciscan University of Steubenville this month. He succeeded the Rev. Sean O. Sheridan.

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., president of Stony Brook University, will become president of Michigan State University on August 1. He will replace Satish Udpa, who has served as acting president since John M. Engler resigned as interim chief in January.

Dwight Watson, provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Southwest Minnesota State University, will become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater on August 1. He will replace Cheryl Green, who has served as interim leader since Beverly Kopper resigned in December.

John Norton Williams, dean of the Indiana University School of Dentistry, will become interim president of Transylvania University on August 15. He will replace President Seamus Carey, who is stepping down to lead Iona College.

Catherine Wright, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college, and Mary-Jane McLaughlin, chief of staff, will become interim co-presidents of Mitchell College on July 1. President Janet Steinmayer is leaving to lead Lesley University.

Retirements

Barbara Jones, president of South Arkansas Community College since 2009, plans to retire at an unspecified date.

Gary Roberts, president of Bradley University since 2016, plans to retire in May 2020.

Alan Walker, president of Sierra Nevada College since 2015, retired on May 26. Ed Zschau, founder of System Industries and a former general manager of IBM’s Storage Systems Division who has taught at several universities, will serve as interim president.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Martin Abraham, professor of civil/environmental and chemical engineering and former provost at Youngstown State University, will become provost and academic vice president at Western Illinois University on July 1.

Sandy Carollo, associate dean of academic affairs at the College of Nursing at Washington State University, has been named provost and executive vice president of the Helene Fuld College of Nursing.

Dennis Rome, dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at Columbus State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern Illinois University.

Mary C. Schutten, a professor of kinesiology and former dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at San Jose State University, will become provost and executive vice president at Central Michigan University on July 1.

Resignations

Nigel Boyle, dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Pitzer College, will return to his work as a professor of political studies and director of Pitzer’s Institute for Global/Local Action and Study, following a year as a Fulbright scholar.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Hector Batista, president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, has been named chief operating officer at the City University of New York.

Elizabeth R. Cantwell, chief executive of Arizona State University Research Enterprise, will become senior vice president for research and innovation at the University of Arizona on July 29.

Teresa Costantinidis, vice chancellor and chief financial officer at the University of California at San Francisco, will become senior vice president for finance and administration at the University of New Mexico on July 1.

Mercedes Ramírez Fernández, associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity at Virginia Tech, will become the first vice president for equity and inclusion at the University of Rochester on July 1.

Eddie Kenny, interim vice president for advancement at Kentucky Wesleyan College, has been named to the post permanently.

Bill Maki, president of the Northeast Higher Education District, a consortium of five colleges of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, will serve as interim vice chancellor for finance and facilities of Minnesota State for two years, beginning July 1.

Matthew Ruark, director of admissions at Kentucky Wesleyan College, has been named vice president for admissions and financial aid.

Ahmed Samaha, interim vice chancellor for student life and services at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, will move to permanent status on July 1.

Margaret (Mamie) M. Smith, rector of Pasquerilla East Hall at the University of Notre Dame, will become vice president for mission integration and campus ministry at Hilbert College on July 1.

Costas Solomou, dean of undergraduate admissions and orientation at George Washington University, will become vice president for enrollment management at the State University of New York College at Geneseo on August 8.

Dwane M. Sterling, director of technology and information security officer at Adirondack Health Institute, will become chief technology officer at Skidmore College on June 17.

Deans

Appointments

Donalyn Alexander, associate dean of the Patty Hanks Shelton School of Nursing, a nursing-education consortium with McMurry University and Hardin-Simmons University, will become dean of the school on June 1.

Mary J. Davis, a professor of law at the University of Kentucky, will become interim dean of the College of Law on July 1.

Laura Delbrugge, a professor of Spanish and chair of the department of foreign languages at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Clarion University on July 1.

Mathew Dornbush, interim dean of the Austin E. Cofrin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, has been named to the post permanently.

John P. Downey, dean of students at Queens University of Charlotte, became dean of students at Widener University this week.

Kimberly Gaiters, dean of academic affairs at Ferrum College, will become dean of the Evelyn Reid Syphax School of Education and Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Union University in July.

Frank R. Hall, former dean of the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Saginaw Valley State University, has been named dean of the Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Science and Engineering at Southern Utah University.

Jill Graper Hernandez, associate dean of University College and a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will become dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University on August 1.

Adriene Lim, dean of libraries at the University of Oregon, will become dean of university libraries at the University of Maryland at College Park on August 19.

Mark Luer, interim dean of the School of Pharmacy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, has been named to the post permanently.

Tim Mantz, dean of the School of Business at Northern State University, will become dean of the School of Business, Arts, and Media at Cabrini University on July 1.

Christopher Moberg, senior associate dean of academic programs at Ohio University, will become dean of the College of Business Administration at Central Michigan University on July 15.

Rachel Nardo, director of the Summer Arts program at California State University, will become dean of Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University on July 1.

Charles H. Rose III, a professor of law and director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at Stetson University’s College of Law, will become dean of the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University on July 1.

Michael Scott, interim dean of the Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology at Salisbury University, has been named to the post permanently.

Samit Shah, associate dean of academic affairs of the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the Keck Graduate Institute, will become dean of the School of Pharmacy at Regis University on August 1.

Claire Stewart, associate university librarian for research and learning at the University of Minnesota Libraries, will become dean of University Libraries at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on August 1. She will also hold a continuous appointment as professor in the libraries.

Eric Wilcots, a professor of astronomy and deputy dean and associate dean for research of the College of Letters & Science of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named interim dean of the college.

Other administrators

Appointments

Kaylan Baban, assistant professor of medicine at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and director of the Lifestyle Medicine Program at the GW Medical Faculty Associates, will assume an additional role, as the first chief wellness officer for the medical school, university hospital, and GW Medical Faculty Associates.

Carrie Bodkins, acting athletic director at Alderson Broaddus University, has been appointed to the post permanently.

Eric T. Bradlow, a professor of marketing, economics, education, and statistics and chair of the department of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the first vice dean of analytics at the school.

Rebecca Carlson, clinical librarian for the Health Sciences Library in the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the university’s new health-sciences librarian and liaison to the School of Pharmacy for the Health Sciences Library.

Kim Chandler, senior executive assistant at the financial-services firm North Star Resource Group and a former athletic director for Macalester College, will become athletic director and chair of sports studies, recreation, and athletics at Whitman College in June.

Michael Chung, co-interim dean and vice dean for administration at the American Film Institute Conservatory, will become assistant dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles on June 3.

George Cohen, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named the law school’s associate dean for academic programs.

Christopher Conzen, who was assistant dean for student services and administrative affairs at Montclair State University, is the new executive director of Hudson County Community College’s Secaucus Center at the Frank J. Gargiulo Campus of Hudson County Schools of Technology.

Andrew Douglas, a professor of mechanical engineering and vice dean for faculty at the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, will become the university’s vice provost for faculty affairs on July 1.

Douglas Freed, former director of the Transfer Student Success Center at Wayne State University, will become director of undergraduate admissions and enrollment services at Western Illinois University on June 10.

Matt Jansen, data analyst in the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the new data-analysis librarian in the University Libraries.

Mohammed Kazimuddin, an associate professor of internal medicine, has been named assistant dean of the Bowling Green campus of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Todd Nicolet, vice dean at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became vice provost for digital and lifelong learning this month.

Steve Robinson, assistant vice president and chief of staff for student services and enrollment management at the University of Oregon, will become senior associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Utah on July 15.

Sean K. Skeete, interim chair of the ensemble department of Berklee College of Music, has been named permanent chair.

Gerry Snyder, dean of the School of Art at Pratt Institute, will become executive director of the School of Art at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on July 1. He will also be a professor of art and special adviser to the chancellor for arts integration.

Melanie Wine Tolan, executive vice president and director of operations for global clients at Edelman, an advertising agency in New York City, will become executive director of marketing and communications at Roanoke College on July 29.

Sarah Vandermark, assistant provost for student success at New Jersey City University, will become associate provost for academic success at Dixie State University on August 1.

Retirements

Donald Judges, vice provost for distance education at the University of Arkansas, plans to retire on September 15.

Humanities Fellows

The National Humanities Center selected 37 fellows for the 2019-20 academic year. They are listed below with their institution and project name.

Candace Bailey, a professor of music history and musicology at North Carolina Central University, “Women, Music, and the Performance of Gentility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South”

John Levi Barnard, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the College of Wooster, “The Edible and the Endangered: Food, Empire, and the Biopolitics of Extinction”

Jill C. Bender, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire”

Ian Burney, a professor of history at the University of Manchester, “A History of Innocence: Erle Stanley Gardner, the Court of Last Resort, and the Pursuit of Wrongful Conviction in Cold War America”

Katherine Mellen Charron, an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University, “‘Possibility Thinkers': Rural Black Power and Women’s Liberation Politics after 1965"

Marianne Constable, a professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, “Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law”

Sonja Drimmer, an assistant professor of history of art and architecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “Art and Political Visuality in Late Medieval England”

Olga Dror, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, “Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood”

Xiaoping Fang, an assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, “Global Pandemic, Local Politics: Disease and Social Restructuring in Mao’s China”

Harris Feinsod, an associate professor of comparative literature at Northwestern University, “Into Steam: The Global Imaginaries of Maritime Modernism”

Giuseppe Gerbino, a professor of music history and musicology at Columbia University, “Music and Mind in the Renaissance”

Victor Goldgel-Carballo, an associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Passing as Open Secret: Race and Fictions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba”

Marsha Gordon, a professor of film and media studies at North Carolina State University, “Leftover Ladies: Ursula Parrott and the Emergence of the Modern Woman”

Mohsen Kadivar, a professor of religion at Duke University, “Islamic Theocracy in the Secular Age”

Agnes Kefeli, a lecturer in history at Arizona State University, “Re-Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe: Eco-Nationalism and Eschatology in Tatar Literature, 1960-present”

Mary Katrina Krizan, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, “Aristotle’s Material Elements”

Michele Lamprakos, an associate professor of history of art and architecture at the University of Maryland at College Park, “Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Cordoba”

Seung-joon Lee, an associate professor of history at National University of Singapore, “Revolutions at the Canteens: Labor, Energy, and the Politics of Eating in Industrial China”

Daniel Livesay, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, “Endless Bondage: Old Age in New World Slavery”

Pamela Lothspeich, an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Lila Affects: Power, Masculinity, and Sociality in a Vernacular Theatre”

Emily Lutenski, an associate professor of American studies at Saint Louis University, “Modern Lovers: Margery Latimer, Jean Toomer, and Race in American Culture”

Simon Middleton, an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary, “The Price of the People: Money and Power in Early America”

Melissa Mueller, an associate professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading”

Gibson Ncube, a professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Zimbabwe, “Bodies and/as Texts: Queer Representations in African Screens”

Chérie Ndaliko, an assistant professor of African studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Archival Mutations: Decomposing Aesthetics of Atrocity in Congo”

Ann Wierda Rowland, an associate professor of English language and literature at the University of Kansas, “Reading Keats in America”

Martha Rust, an associate professor of English language and literature at New York University, “Item: Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Late Medieval England”

Iman Sanga, a professor of music history and musicology at the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, “Musical Literary Imagination: Musical Figures, Swahili Literature and Postcolonial Social Life in Tanzania”

Shuang Shen, an associate professor of East Asian languages and literature at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, “Cold War and Sinophone Literature at the Borders”

Christina Snyder, a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, “Slavery after the Civil War: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Bondage”

Angela Stuesse, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "#FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie”

Dennis Trout, a professor of classics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, “Monumental Verse: Poetry, Cityscape, and Authority in Late Ancient Rome”

James A. van Dyke, an associate professor of history of art and architecture at the University of Missouri at Columbia, “The Social Production of Otto Dix”

C. J. W.-L. Wee, a professor of English language and literature at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, “Imagining Cultural Asia: Art Exhibitions, Popular Culture, and a Regional Contemporary”

Jennifer D. Williams, a professor of English language and literature at Howard University, “Intimate Cities: Black Women’s Literature and Urban Segregation”

Yolonda Y. Wilson, an assistant professor of philosophy at Howard University, “Black Death: Racial Justice, Priority-Setting, and Care at the End of Life”

Alexia Yates, a lecturer in history at the University of Manchester, “Rise of the Rentier: France and the Making of Financial Modernity, 1830-1930"

Deaths

Wendell Nedderman, president emeritus of the University of Texas at Arlington, died on May 8. He was 97. Nedderman was president of the institution from 1974 until 1992, and was acting president from 1972 to 1974. He arrived on campus in 1959 as founding dean of the College of Engineering when the university was still called Arlington State College.

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